Testing Diagnostic Competence: A Problem for Social Work Research

The Social Work Curriculum Study, Council on Social Work Education, New York, 1959, 13 vols.

Schwartz William , “On Certifying Each Other,” Social Work, Vol. VII, July 1962, p. 26; Harold Silver, “Certification: A Look at the Record,” Social Work, Vol. VII, July 1962, p. 32.

Finestone Samuel , “The Scientific Component in the Casework Field Curriculum,” Social Casework, Vol. XXXVI, May 1955, p. 198.

Hanford Jeanette , “Standards of Measurement Used in Staff Evaluations in a Private Agency,” Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work, selected papers from the sixty-ninth annual conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 10–16, 1942, Columbia University Press, New York, 1942, p. 532.

Schubert Margaret , “Field Work Performance: Achievement Levels of First-Year Students in Selected Aspects, of Casework Service,” Social Service Review, Vol. XXXII, June 1958, pp. 120–37; Margaret Schubert, “Field Work Performance: Repetition of a Study of First-Year Casework Performance,” Social Service Review, Vol. XXXIV, September 1960, pp. 286–99.

Carr Lewis W. , The Relationship between Use of Knowledge in Practice and Effectiveness of Practice as Seen in the Development of Psychosocial Diagnostic Impressions and Predictions by Social Workers, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1961 (unpublished thesis).

Garetz Floyd K. , “An Aptitude Test for Prospective Psychotherapists: A Preliminary Report,” American Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol. XVI, January 1962, p. 72.

Levitt Eugene E. , “A Comparative Judgmental Study of ‘Defection’ from Treatment at a Child Guidance Clinic,” Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol. XIV, 1958, pp. 429–32.

Hakeem Michael , “Prediction of Parole Outcome From Summaries of Case Histories,” Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science, Vol. LII, July-August, 1961, p. 147.

Ullmann Leonard P. , and Berkman Virginia C. , “Judgments of Outcome of Home Care Placement from Psychological Material,” Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol. XV, January 1959, pp. 28–31.

Horrocks John , and Troyer Maurice , “Case Study Tests of Ability to Use Knowledge of Human Growth and Behavior,” Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. VII, Spring 1947, pp. 23–36.

Buros Oscar (ed.), Mental Measurements Yearbook [Third: 1940–47], Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1949, p. 407.

Brieland Donald , An Experimental Study of the Selection of Adoptive Parents at Intake, Child Welfare League of America, New York, 1959.

Brieland Donald , An Experimental Study of the Selection of Adoptive Parents at Intake, p. 9.

Plotnick Harold L. , The Relation Between Selected Personality Characteristics of Social Work Students and Accuracy in Predicting Behavior of Clients, New York School of Social Work, Columbia University, New York, 1961 (doctoral dissertation).

Bellak Leopold , Brewster Smith with M. , “An Experimental Exploration of the Psychoanalytic Process,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol. XXV, July 1956, pp. 385–414.

Bellak Leopold , Brewster Smith with M. , “An Experimental Exploration of the Psychoanalytic Process,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol. XXV, July 1956, p. 393.

Grigg Austin E. , “Experience of Clinicians, and Speech Characteristics and Statements of Clients as Variables in Clinical Judgment,” Journal of Consulting Psychology, Vol. XXII, 1958, pp. 315–19.

Luft Joseph , “Implicit Hypotheses and Clinical Predictions,” Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Vol. XLV, October 1950, pp. 756–59.

Miller Roger R. , “An Experimental Study of the Observational Process in Casework,” Social Work, Vol. III, April 1958, pp. 96–102.

Crow W. J. , “The Effect of Training Upon Accuracy and Variability in Interpersonal Perception,” Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Vol. LV, November 1957, pp. 355–59; Wayman J. Crow and Kenneth R. Hammond, “The Generality of Accuracy and Response Sets in Interpersonal Perception,” Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Vol. LIV, May 1957, p. 385.

Cline Victor B. , “Ability to Judge Personality Assessed with a Stress Interview and Sound-Film Technique,” Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Vol. L, March 1955, pp. 183–87.

Cline Victor B. , “Ability to Judge Personality Assessed with a Stress Interview and Sound-Film Technique,” Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Vol. L, March 1955, p. 184.

Harold Giedt F. , “Comparison of Visual, Content, and Auditory Cues in Interviewing,” Journal of Consulting Psychology, Vol. XIX, 1955, pp. 407–16.

Harold Giedt F. , “Comparison of Visual, Content, and Auditory Cues in Interviewing,” Journal of Consulting Psychology, Vol. XIX, 1955, p. 408.

Thomas Edwin J. , In-Service Training and Reduced Workloads, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1960.

Thomas Edwin J. , In-Service Training and Reduced Workloads, p. 41.

Soskin William F. , “Influence of Four Types of Data on Diagnostic Conceptualization in Psychological Testing,” Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, Vol. LVIII, January 1959, pp. 69–78.

Lowell Kelly E. , and Fiske Donald W. , The Prediction of Performance in Clinical Psychology, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, March 1951.

Lowell Kelly E. , and Fiske Donald W. , The Prediction of Performance in Clinical Psychology, p. 277.

Thomas Edwin J. , “Experimental Techniques for Studying the Casework Interview,” Proceedings— First Annual Michigan Tri-University Student Social Work Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1960 (mimeographed), p. 12.

See Student Evaluation, a workshop report, proceedings of the annual program meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, held in Buffalo, New York, January 25–28, 1956, Council on Social Work Education, New York, 1956, for evidence of variability in expert evaluation of casework records.

Buros , op. cit., p. 406; Jones, in reviewing the diagnostic case studies devised by Horrocks and Troyer to test ability to diagnostically apply facts and principles of human development, notes this same criticism with regard to the criteria answer key established by experts. He states: “It is apparent that these tests measure not merely the ability to apply what has been learned but also the disposition to conform to the clinical and educational points of view of the authorities used in the standardization” of the test answers.

Thorne Frederick C. , Clinical Judgment: A Study of Clinical Error, Journal of Clinical Psychology, Brandon, Vermont, 1961.

Sarbin Theodore R. , Taft Ronald , and Bailey Daniel E. , Clinical Inference and Cognitive Theory, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1960, p. 231.

Shyne Ann W. , “A Prologue: Purpose and Plan of the Conference,” in Use of Judgments as Data in Social Work Research, proceedings of a conference held by the Research Section of the National Association of Social Workers, June 8–13, 1958, National Association of Social Workers, New York, 1959, p. 8.

Herzog Elizabeth , Some Guide Lines for Evaluative Research, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C., 1959, p. 16.

Cline , op. cit., p. 184.