Looks at the future of testing in school counseling. Concludes that the level of sophistication in testing will continue to increase through greater use of the microcomputer, more combined instrument packages, more emphasis on self-administration and self-scoring, increased attention to special groups, and more emphasis on test interpretation.…

The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children's (K-ABC) systematic effort to achieve fairness for minorities and exceptional children in the assessment process is appealing, but potential for abuse is real. As the K-ABC has reduced the black/white IQ discrepancy, it should have a positive and stimulating effect on this persistent issue in…

The relation between average deviation, as determined using the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, and Stanford-Binet intelligence scores was examined using a preschool sample. Results revealed a curvilinear relation between total average deviation and Stanford-Binet intelligence scores. Use of average deviation as an index of…

This study investigated the validity of the current reliability estimation procedure for the Test of Spoken English (TSE), a tape-mediated semi-performance test of 12 speaking tasks, from the perspective of generalizability theory and examined the feasibility of shortening the test without compromising the psychometric quality of the test. Data…

The present study was a psychometric evaluation of two recently revised Jungian personality instruments, the Singer-Loomis Type Deployment Inventory (SL-TDI) and the Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (PPSDQ). The study also examined the relationship between Jungian personality dimensions and the Five-Factor Model of personality…

This study was designed to assess the concurrent validity of the Brief Mini Markers Inventory. The 40-item Mini Markers scale and a 15-item situational response questionnaire were administered to a sample of college students. It was hypothesized that scores on the Mini Marker factors would correlate highly with responses to situations tapping the…

Instruments measuring Carl Jung's (1921/1971) theory of psychological types have been widely used in various counseling contexts. The most popular measure of types has been the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (K. Briggs and I. Myers). This measure has been criticized for dichotomous scoring, forced-choice response formats, and differential gender…

This paper offers a new methodology for analyzing individual differences in preference judgments with regard to a set of stimuli. (Author)

Special cases of the factor analysis model are developed for four selection situations. Methods are suggested whereby parameters in each case can be estimated using a maximum likelihood procedure recently developed by Joreskog. (Author)

The aims of this paper are to affirm the importance of developing sequential models of psychological process-particularly of such complex psychological phenomena of prime concern to theory and application as learning, problem solving, and creativity-and to argue that factor analysis has delineated component processes for these sequential models.…

Research supported by the Committee on Scholarly Activities of the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio. (DS)

A review of several leading counseling journals and some books reporting major research projects was performed, covering material from 1961 to the present. Instruments were sorted as follows: (1) Counselor characteristics measurements, and (2) Counseling relationship and effectiveness measurements. Also examined were areas of reliability and…

Aim of the study is to assess empirically the interrelationships among some of Piaget's and Gesell's behavioral tasks. (Author)