This article reviews and critiques studies involving the WISC with samples of blind subjects. Discussion focuses on reliability, validity, and research strategy. Recommendations and suggestions for further research place emphasis upon experimental analysis of behavior. (Author)

After being measured for test anxiety, three groups of participants observed an experimenter, who served as a model, solve sample problems prior to performing themselves. Opportunity to observe a model who verbalized while working on problems and who stated general principles had a positive effect on performance. (Author/KM)

This paper is devoted to the study of a certain statistic, u, defined on samples from a bivariate population with two variances and correlation p. (Author)

A variety of court decisions and laws relevant to malpractice and liability of school psychologists are presented. Terms are defined and examples of faulty psychological testing, defamation, withholding information, and inferred imcompetence are provided. Suggestions regarding litigation and legal defenses are made and issues related to…

Research is contradictory concerning ability of the Wechsler Object Assembly (OA) subtest to predict bodily preoccupations. This study presents data from an objective personality test that do not support the hypothesis that bodily concerns are indicated by impaired performance on the WAIS OA subtest. (Author)

The real issue in higher education is not bad and unreliable examinations, but the poverty and ineffectiveness of teaching. (Author)

This study compared interest, personality, and ability scores of vocationally undecided students who, after counseling, either selected a major or remained undecided. (Author)

This study interpreted a factor analysis of like-named scales in terms of Holland's theory of vocational choice. The Holland system facilitated the naming of the factors and provided possible explanations of low correlations between like-named scales. Finally, the results lent support to Holland's categories of occupational activity. Comments by…

University instructors should provide more careful checks and feedback to students who are learning to do intelligence testing. It also is important for supervisors in service facilities to monitor tests that provide bases for crucial decisions about children. Intelligence test scores relate to many other variables. Improperly trained examiners…

The analyses of data obtained from bain damaged and normal children of 9 to 11 and 12 to 15 years indicate that the IHCT is a better discriminator between brain damaged and normal Ss in the older age group. A shortened version of the IHCT produced for this study showed the same results. (JC)

Study discusses the four possible ways to test null hypotheses: multivariate tests, usual univariate F test, Box's univariate approximate F test, Geisser and Greenhouse univariate conservative F test. (Author/CB)

Findings in this study do not demonstrate that factual review questions produce any generally facilitating effect on the learning of incidental information when compared to no question at all. (Author/JB)

Two methods are proposed for analyzing for floor and ceiling effects in test measures when the distribution of the data is binomial. (Author)