The Specific Techniques of Investigation: Testing Intelligence,Aptitudes,and Personality

Adjustment Service Series. Reports Nos. 1–12. (American Association for Adult Education: New York, 1935, 12 vol.)

Application of several vocational tests in the course of a vocational counselling service offered to 13,000 adults in New York during 1933–4.

Allport G. Personality, A Psychological Interpretation. (Henry Holt: New York, 1937, 588 pp.)

Best discussion in English of concepts of personality, especially those developed in German psychology. Criticism of philosophy underlying much testing.

Baker H. J. , Greene K. B. , and Mort P. R. “Tests of intelligence and aptitude.” Review of Educational Research, 2: October, 1932, 271–342.

Tests of general intelligence and special abilities and disabilities are reviewed by Katharine B. Greene. Vocational-aptitude tests are reviewed by Baker and Crockett. General uses of psychological tests are discussed by Mort and Featherstone. The bibliography lists 450 titles.

Baker H. J. , Hildreth G. , Olson W. , Toops H. , and Watson G. “Psychological tests.” Review of Educational Research, 5: June, 1935, 185–331. This is the second round-up of research on tests, under the auspices of the American Educational Research Association. The several chapters sketch briefly most of the important studies in the period 1932–5, dealing with intelligence tests and their applications, measures of aptitude, test construction, character and personality measurement, measures used in mental hygiene and emotional adjustment, also tests of social attitudes. Bibliography of 1033 titles.

Beck S. J. Introduction to the Rorschach Method. (American Orthopsychiatric Association Monograph, No. 1, 1937)

First attempt at a description and manual, in English.

Bronner A. F. , Healy W. , Lowe Gladys M. , and Shimberg Myra E. Manual of Individual Mental Tests and Testing. (Little, Brown & Co.: Boston, 1927, 287 pp.)

Description of materials, directions, scoring, and some norms for 126 individual tests of language ability, memory, learning, mechanical ability, construction ability, and the like. The section on interpretations is separate and less complete. Bibliography of 319 titles, also a list of publishers of tests.

Earle F. M. Methods of Choosing a Career. (G. G. Harrap & Co.: London, 1931, 331 pp.)

Report on efficacy of vocational guidance.

Freeman F. N. Mental Tests: Their History, Principles, and Applications. (Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 1926, 503 pp.) A general review of the field.

Hartshorne H. , and May N. Studies in the Nature of Character. Vol. I. Studies in Deceit. (Macmillan: New York, 1928)

Vol. II; Studies in Service and Self-Control. (Macmillan: New York, 1929, 559pp.)

Vol. III. Studies in the Organization of Character. (Macmillan: New York, 930, 503 pp.)

Reports of three years’ extensive application by the Character Education. Inquiry of ingenious tests of conduct, moral knowledge, and reputation.

Hull Clark L. Aptitude Testing. (World Book Co.: Yonkers, 1928, 535 pp.)

Brief summary of previous work; manual for constructing and standardizing additional tests.

Maller J. B. Character and Personality Tests. (Teachers College Bureau of Publications, Columbia University: New York, 1937, 137 pp.) Mimeographed and bound.

Description of 356 tests, giving for each: purpose, standardization, costs, and references.

Murphy G. , Murphy L. B. , and Newcomb T. M. Experimental Social Psychology. (Harper and Bros.: New York, 1937, 1121 pp.)

This remarkable volume covers a much broader field than that of testing, but it includes excellent summaries of the important investigations on each issue touched upon in this chapter. The bibliography consists of 1111 titles.

Nature and Nurture. (Twenty-Seventh Yearbook of this Society, Parts I and II, 1928)

A number of studies of great significance for the problem of relative weight of variation in heredity and in environment.

Newman H. H. , Freeman F. N. , and Holzinger K. J. Twins: A Study of Heredity and Environment. (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1937, 369 pp.)

Similarities and differences in pairs of identical twins raised in different environments.

Paterson D. G. , Elliott R. M. , Anderson L. D. and Others. The Minne- sota Mechanical Ability Tests. (University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, 1930, 586 pp.)

Summary of previous work, plus the most substantial project in this field.

Peterson Joseph . Early Conceptions and Tests of Intelligence. (World Book Co.: Yonkers, N. Y., 1925, 320 pp.)

A good historical review of concepts of intelligence, sensory tests, tests of special functions, the development of the Binet-Simon scale.

Pintner R. Intelligence Testing: Methods and Results. (Henry Holt: New York, Revised Edition, 1931, 555 pp.)

A general review, with summaries of applications of tests to races, sexes, social groups, school problems, and vocational problems.

Stagner R. Psychology of Personality. (McGraw-Hill: New York, 1937, 465 pp.)

Summarizes a number of studies using personality tests and questionnaires.

Terman L. M. , and Merrill M. A. Measuring Intelligence. (Houghton Mifflin: New York, 1937, 411 pp.)

The latest revision of the Binet individual tests of intelligence, replacing the famous Stanford-Binet described in The Measurement of Intelligence by the same author and publisher, issued in 1916.

Watson G. “Tests of personality and character.” Review of Educational Research, 2: June, 1932, 184–270.

This review mentions about 1000 studies previous to 1931, but lists only the major ones, referring to previous summaries for titles and sources of other articles. The bibliography of 282 titles is organized about tests of abnormalities and symptoms of maladjustment, accuracy, activity, aesthetic response, aggressiveness and submission, appearance, confidence and inferiority, cooperation and negativism, delinquent trends, emotions, excitability expression, happiness, home background, honesty, humor, inhibition, interests, introversion, leadership, maturity, moral knowledge, opinions, originality, perseveration, persistence, physiological indices of personality, ratings, school attitudes, self-appraisal, sex characteristics, sociability, speed, suggestibility, and personality types.