Primary school children were administered the Draw-A-Design and Draw-A Child subtests of the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities in a group setting. Results suggest that the McCarthy drawing tests may be administered validly in a group format, and that these scores are significantly related to school achievement. (Author/BW)

The Wallach and Kogan Creativity Battery, a self report questionnaire of creative activities, and a group intelligence test were administered to an entire Israeli high school senior class. Creative activity was found to be related to creative thinking but not to intelligence or school grades. (Author/DEP)

Test scores from Comprehensive Ability Battery (CAB) administered to 103 British students were subjected to oblique factor analysis. Six factors were extracted which fitted closely those described by Cattell and colleagues, thus supporting their claims concerning structure of abilities and utility of this American instrument in Great Britain. (CMG)

Use of group IQs as predictors of grades and high school completion is re-evaluated. Correlations between IQ and grades were lower for vocational courses than for academic courses. It is suggested that the minimum IQ for the four year program is 80 and the minimum for the five year program 100. (Author)

Study funded by the Exploratory Committee for Assessing the Progress of Education (ECAPE).

Investigated the effect of examiners' ethnicity on the intelligence test performance of Anglo and Mexican-American subjects. On the WISC Vocabulary, Mexican-American subjects scored significantly higher when the test was administered by Mexican-American examiners. (Author)

Responds to Lustig's (1987) critique of Bales and Cohen's (1979) interpersonal rating forms. Results are reported from a test of the Bales and Cohen rating forms administered to 145 subjects from a variety of organizations, and revisions are proposed based on methodological and theoretical considerations. (TE)

Findings from a study involving 141 Israeli student teachers suggest that a group assessment procedure is a better alternative for predicting success in a teacher training program than individual interviews, because group assessment more effectively assesses the personality factors most related to teacher success. (IAH)

Tests a model of the factors that influence groups to follow various paths as they make decisions. Uses three panels of contingency variables to predict properties of the group's developmental path. Finds that group decision paths and their properties can be predicted as a function of task and relational contingencies. (MS)

Inhelder and Piaget (1958) studied schoolchildren's understanding of a simple pendulum as a means of investigating the development of the control of variables scheme and the "ceteris paribus" principle central to scientific experimentation.The time-consuming nature of the individual interview technique used by Inhelder has led to the development…

This research studied the interchangeability of individually administered and group administered cognitive tests. Seventy undergraduate students took the Hebrew version of the WAIS-R (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised), and their IQs were measured. They also took the IPET (Israeli Psychometric Entrance Test) and their IPET scores were…

In an investigation of racial differences on an "intelligence" test containing items specific to the Black environment, black subjects had a higher mean score than white subjects and there was no positive correlation between the Black Intelligence Test and the Shipley Institute of Living Scale, a traditional intelligence test. Thus, racial…

An examination of the limitations of I.Q. testing, the dangers of misclassification, the moral issues of testing as well as some of the legal consequences of such mishaps. Several alternatives and recommendations are offered. (EH)