Students learning to use assessment procedures are warned against offering feedback to clients. Research shows conflicting influences of knowledge of such results and has largely ignored the client's feelings of correctness. Data were collected to determine whether WAIS and Binet examinees were aware of the accuracy of their responses. Subjects were administered the tests and were asked to indicate whether they thought each of their answers was correct. Generally subjects knew whether their responses were correct. There was a significant correlation between the accuracy of such feelings of correctness and IQ but not between the self-knowledge and either age or sex.
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