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Gottfredson, Don M., Ed. – Criminal Justice and Behavior, 1983
Examines the use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (Megargee typology) as a valid classification system in correctional decision making in a series of six articles. Most results urge caution in the use of the Megargee typology, finding poor test validity and test-retest reliability. (WAS)
Descriptors: Classification, Correctional Institutions, Personality Assessment, Position Papers
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Simner, Marvin L.; Goffin, Richard D. – International Journal of Testing, 2003
Among the various tests employed in personnel selection, handwriting analysis, or graphology, has enjoyed long-standing international popularity despite being highly contentious. This report contains not only an evaluation of the current published scientific reviews on the use of graphology in personnel selection, but also an evaluation of several…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Handwriting, Personnel Selection, Position Papers
Lavrnja, Ilija; Klapan, Anita – 2000
Science plays an extremely important role in predicting the future of social phenomena, including pedagogy and andragogy. Research in these areas must be based on an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, systemic, and structural approach that is based on the assumption that upbringing and education are specific phenomena in which human…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Andragogy, Change Strategies, Educational Change