A successful marriage between counseling and testing must be based on mutual beliefs and expectations. AMEG can provide test users and test specialists with a means for agreement on some realistic expectations for the marriage between counseling and testing. (Author)

In response to Goldman's allegation in volume 4 of this journal that testing and counseling are not complementary, the author describes the Career Planning Program which represents one attempt to improve the relationship between tests and counseling. (Author)

Subjects from two junior high schools were assembled in large and small groups and simultaneously administered the same self-concept, locus-of-control, and semantic differential attitude scales. No significant differences were found on any criterion. (Author)

Suggestions for change include development of new kinds of tests, higher standards for both tests and test users, and collaboration by test authors, publishers, and counselors within AMEG in an effort to prevent a complete dissolution of the marriage between tests and the counseling process. (Author)

This article describes a device used to array the pieces of the Object Assembly Test, a subscale of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children, in exact standardized order in less time than is now needed and without a screen, thus guaranteeing that the subject will have no previous experience with the pieces. (Author/BY)

This study investigated the reliability and validity of the Philosophical Belief Inventory (PBI). With the exception of the relationship between idealism and pragmatism and realism and existentialism, the PBI scales appear to be assessing independent facets of belief. (Author)

This article describes the design and testing of a computer-based program that administers and scores the California Psychological Inventory. Results indicate a considerable difference between the mean CPI subscale results of the computer administered and traditionally administered groups, particularly for males. (Author)

This study was concerned with the effect of experiences with test-type problems on the test performance of Negro children from a low socioeconomic area. When subjects are tested on material on which it cannot be assumed they have had equal prior exposure, first scores are less stable and typical. (Author)

Many self-concept measures employ several different scales to which the subject responds in a set order at one sitting. This study examined effects of different testing conditions. The Index of Adjustment and Values (IAV) was administered to 191 graduate students under two different sequences and two time delay conditions. Results indicate…

It is suggested that funders revise the manner in which accountability is determined regarding both program superiority and the way in which special school programs are evaluated. In any alternative mode of showing accountability, preoccupation with dollars and amount learned should not take precedence over humaneness in the classroom. (Author)

Goldman's conception of the relationship between tests and counseling based on his remarks in an article in volume 4 of this journal is rejected because of the surplus meaning in the marriage analogy. (Author)

Tests and measurement have fallen short of the contributions to counseling expected of them. The writer takes the position that inadequacies of both the tests and counselors are responsible and that major changes are needed if tests are to continue to have a place in the counseling process. (Author)

In replying to Leo Goldman's charge that tests and counseling have failed to come help one another, the author argues that at least tests provide the counselor and student with information not ordinarily obtained in other ways. (Author/BY)

Results on arithmetic, spelling, and self-concept measures indicated no differences in mean test scores across groups, regardless of test conditions. It is suggested that since a variety of noises is a normal part of our environment, music as a distractor is not a new experience for test-takers and therefore not distracting in a test situation.…

The Ohio Vocational Interest Survey was designed to serve primarily as an occupational exploration device for high school students. The OVIS profile presents measured interests alongside vocational plans and thus facilitates an individual learning process with which the counselor can assist. OVIS emphasizes a marriage between testing and…