Studied five tutors' personal constructs about their students, as identified by repertory grid interviews and interpreted by cluster analysis. All tutors judged and classified students in similarly defined terms of motivation and intellectual ability. Implications for programming computer-based tutors are discussed. (Author/MAK)

Investigated the relationships of figural response items and open-ended verbal items in biology to figural and verbal mental aptitudes (n=24). Performance on the verbal items was positively related to verbal ability. Figural response scores were related positively to both figural and verbal abilities. (PR)