Inter-scorer reliability of 3 projective measures of alienation was determined by computing the percentages agreement and Pearsonian correlations between 2 independent scorers. A random sample of high school seniors' protocols of Davids' Word Association and Sentence Completion Tests, and the TAT were rated in accord with Davids' scoring schemes for these measures. For the 3 instruments percentages agreement between scorers ranged from 72% to 92% and Pearsonian correlations ranged from .84 to .91 (p < .01). These results compare favorably with levels of agreement previously repotted and indicate the utility of appropriately delineated scoring schemes for projective instruments.
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