Discusses School Adjustment Scale, constructed to provide an objective approach requiring only the most elementary act of judgment between a teacher's recall of observations of child's behavior and selection of an appropriate response to describe that behavior. Scale available from author at S. Illinois University, Carbondale. (Author/PC)

Several nonverbal behaviors of helpers in a small group were tallied and related to independent judgments of the helper made by observers and the person being helped. The low but significant correlations suggest that nonverbal behaviors are but one set of cues that lead to clients' first impressions of their helpers. (Author)

The validity and personality correlates of peer judgments of parole success were examined. Subjects judged as successes by their peers, in contrast to peer-judged failures, had significantly higher rates of parole success. Implications for application and research are noted. (Author)

The purpose of the study was to isolate groups homogeneous in role-taking ability and to describe them on dimensions of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) Socialization (So) scale. The results support the validity of some of the subscales as indicators of the role-taking construct underlying the So scale. (Author)

The manual introduces the Work Personality Profile (WPP), an observational work behavior rating instrument for use in situational assessment in work centers, comprehensive facilities, and employment settings. The WPP assesses such abilities as work attitudes, values, habits, and behaviors that are essential to achievement and maintenance of…

The development of behaviorally-anchored rating scales (BARS) will permit researchers measuring the effectiveness of school administrators to utilize sound, ethnographic methods instead of relying on traditional, theory-based rating systems. In this document the author describes his own modified process for developing BARS and explains the…

Development and use of a rating scale to code videotaped mother-child interactions involving 1-year-olds with Down's syndrome are described. It is explained that the ratings were developed to describe individual differences in directiveness and sensitivity in mothers and social and cognitive maturity in the children, with a measure of mutuality or…

Difficulties in identifying learning disabilities (LD) are examined, and special problems presented by hearing impaired children with LD are considered. The value of rating scales as a quick instrument for obtaining, measuring, recording and communicating information is emphasized. Adaptations of the Pupil Rating Scale for hearing impaired…

Offered for the clinical teacher in training or reading specialists in elementary schools is the Pupil Profile of Reading Skills, intended for assessment of 110 specific factors related to the reading process and for translation of objectives into daily tasks. (MC)

Attitudes toward specific issues in population covary, but are independent enough to warrant separate assessment. Five case vignettes were given to illustrate the personological implications of contrasting profile configurations. (Editor/RK)

New testing of the Childhood Level of Living Scale offers evidence of its reliability in defining factors in child neglect. (Author/CS)