Clients' recall and understanding of test interpretations are frequently incomplete. It has been shown that clients who receive test interpretations generally make greater gains in incorporating the results. This document presents a client centered approach to testing and interpretation. It explains how the client first participates in the…

An earlier Digest described the shortcomings of three methods commonly used to summarize changes in test scores. This Digest describes two less commonly used approaches for examining changes in test scores, those of Standardized Growth Estimates and Effect Sizes. Aspects of these two approaches are combined and applied to the Iowa Test of Basic…

This Digest outlines five skills that will increase the likelihood that school counselors interpret test information correctly. These skills are: (1) understanding what norm-referenced tests are and what they do; (2) understanding the properties of a normal curve; (3) knowing the properties of common score types; (4) recognizing the difference…

Three groups of persons are involved in the testing enterprise: test producers, test users, and test takers. A wide literature is available to guide the first two groups, but only recently have measurement professionals considered the interests of test takers in any careful way. The content of this chapter is presented as a set of 26…

Intended for parents of exceptional children, the article describes achievement, aptitude, and interest tests and offers guidelines for the interpretation of test scores. (DB)

An investigation of three intelligence tests reveals that the Slosson shows signs of becoming a legitimate substitute for other intelligence tests, while the Columbia yielded erratic results for the mentally retarded participants in this study. (Author/KM)

A test administered to normals, delinquents, and felons appears useful for noting proneness to delinquency but not for discriminating degree of delinquency. (Author/KM)

The Devereux Short Form and the standard Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children were administered in counterbalanced order to 26 mentally retarded children (mean age 12 years, mean IQ 50). (Author)

Correlates of very highly elevated, uninterpretable'' Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPIs) of white and black psychiatric inpatients were obtained by comparing descriptors for these profiles with those for less elevated profiles in two independent samples. (Author)

A problem-solving inventory was administered with other measures of cognitive abilities and school achievement in order to determine interrelationships between these measures. A distinct problem-solving factor, separate from measures of school achievement and language abilities but related to logical thinking and conceptual ability was…

Evaluated was whether factor analysis of the 12 Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities subtest scores earned by 90 underachieving children (between 5 and 10 years of age) would support the dimensions of psycholinguistic processes, organizational levels, and communication channels as described in the clinical model of the instrument. (Author)

The conformity hypothesis is examined by relating the lie scale scores of groups of secondary school boys to two measures of conformity. (Author)

In general, this study found that the validity of single MMPI scales for predicting psychiatric symptoms was too low to be clinically useful for predictions about the individual case. The psychotic scales were particularly lacking in validity. The validity data for all scales is given. (Author/CG)