Percival Symonds
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American educational psychologist
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Percival Symonds's Degrees
- PhD Educational Psychology American University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Percival Mallon Symonds was an American educational psychologist. He was known for his development of several tests in the fields of educational, clinical, and school psychology, including the Foreign Language Prognosis Test, the Personality Survey, and the Symonds picture-study test, a projective test administered to adolescents.
Percival Symonds's Published Works
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Published Works
- On the Loss of Reliability in Ratings Due to Coarseness of the Scale. (1924) (198)
- Diagnosing Personality and Conduct (1932) (161)
- The psychology of parent-child relationships (1940) (121)
- The dynamics of parent-child relationships (1950) (53)
- Factors influencing test reliability. (1928) (47)
- Moral and Character Education (1934) (46)
- Personality and Psychotherapy: An Analysis in Terms of Learning, Thinking and Culture. (1952) (39)
- Notes on rating. (34)
- Characteristics of the Effective Teacher based on Pupil Evaluations (1955) (33)
- The sentence completion test as a projective technique. (1947) (31)
- Life Problems and Interests of Adolescents (1936) (26)
- What Education Has to Learn from Psychology (1955) (25)
- Problems Faced by Teachers (1941) (25)
- Criteria for the selection of pictures for the investigation of adolescent phantasies. (1939) (24)
- Measurement in Secondary Education (22)
- New-type or objective tests: a summary of recent investigations. (1933) (21)
- Choice of items for a test on the basis of difficulty. (21)
- Teaching as a Function of the Teacher's Personality (1954) (20)
- Reflections on Observations of Teachers (1950) (19)
- Happiness as related to problems and interests. (1937) (18)
- Projective Methods in the Study of Personality (1941) (17)
- Use of the Rorschach in the diagnosis of teacher effectiveness. (1956) (16)
- Ego Strength and Ego Weakness. (1951) (15)
- Personality of the Teacher (1947) (15)
- Practice versus grammar in the learning of correct English usage. (1931) (14)
- Mental hygiene of the school child (1934) (14)
- Laws of learning. (1927) (14)
- A social attitude questionnaire. (1925) (14)
- What Shall We Expect of the A. Q. (14)
- The present status of character measurement. (13)
- An Adjustment Survey (1930) (13)
- A STUDY OF PARENTAL ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION (1938) (12)
- Development of the Ego. (1951) (11)
- A comprehensive theory of psychotherapy. (1954) (11)
- Psychological Diagnosis in Social Adjustment (1935) (11)
- Research on the interviewing process. (1939) (10)
- A contribution to our knowledge of the validity of the Rorschach. (1955) (10)
- Education And The Psychology Of Thinking (1936) (10)
- How Teachers Solve Personal Problems (1945) (10)
- Studies in the Learning of English Expression (1929) (10)
- An Educational Interest Inventory (1958) (10)
- A Foreign Language Prognosis Test (1930) (10)
- Influence of order of presentation of items in ranking. (1936) (9)
- The effect of attendance at Chinese language schools on ability with the English language. (9)
- Personality adjustment of women teachers. (1941) (9)
- The Improvement of Teaching Through Counseling of the Teacher (1955) (8)
- The effect of variations in the time interval between an interview and its recording. (1941) (8)
- A research checklist in educational psychology. (1956) (8)
- Some basic concepts in parent-child relationships. (1937) (8)
- A Method of Administering and Evaluating the Thematic Apperception Test in Group Situations. (1945) (8)
- INVENTORY OF THEMES IN ADOLESCENT FANTASY (1945) (7)
- The school psychologist—1942. (1942) (7)
- Evaluation of Teacher Personality (1946) (7)
- Measurement of Personality Adjustments of High School Pupils (1935) (7)
- Changes in Sex Differences in Problems and Interests of Adolescents with Increasing Age (1937) (7)
- Symonds picture-story test (1948) (6)
- Education and psychotherapy. (1949) (6)
- Economic Problems and Interests of Adolescents (1940) (6)
- The Case Study as a Research Method (1945) (5)
- Review of Motivation of behavior: The fundamental determinants of human and animal activity. (1937) (5)
- Change in Self Attitudes Following a Course in Mental Hygiene (1942) (5)
- New type or objective tests: a summary of recent investigations (October, 1931-October, 1933). (1934) (5)
- Variations of the product-moment (Pearson) coefficient of correlation. (1926) (5)
- Dynamics of psychotherapy : the psychology of personality change (1956) (5)
- Psychologists in teacher training institutions. (1952) (4)
- An analysis of thinking. (1936) (4)
- The Increasing of English Vocabulary in the English Class (1927) (3)
- Mental Health in the Classroom: Historical Perspective (1959) (3)
- Eliminating bias in evaluating students' achievements. (1952) (3)
- Comparison of the Problems and Interests of Young Adolescents Living in City and Country (1936) (3)
- A method of training clinical psychologists for child guidance. (1943) (3)
- An Analysis of Tact (1930) (3)
- A comparison of statistical measures of overlapping with charts for estimating the value of bi-serial r. (3)
- A Measure of Studiousness (1925) (3)
- What Education Has to Learn from Psychology II. Reward (1955) (3)
- Comments on the report of the Committee on Psychological Work in Institutions for Delinquent Boys and Girls. (1942) (3)
- Suggestions for the Adjustment of Teachers (1943) (3)
- Role playing as a diagnostic procedure in the selection of leaders. (1947) (3)
- A Symposium on the Classification of Educational Research (1931) (3)
- Problems falling within the scope of psychological counseling. (1937) (3)
- A Study of Extreme Cases of Unreliability. (1924) (3)
- Rorschach Methods and Other Projective Technics (1947) (3)
- Release of repressed tendencies. (1947) (3)
- Psychoanalysis, psychology, and education. (1940) (3)
- Formulating a question. (1936) (3)
- Chapter VI: Rorschach Methods and Other Projective Technics (1947) (2)
- Development and Educational Significance of Projective Technics in Personality Measurement (1950) (2)
- The Autobiography and Life History (1939) (2)
- The Comparative Reliabilities of Standardized and Teacher-Made Achievement Tests when Given in the Middle of the Year (1932) (2)
- The therapeutic value for teachers of the course in mental hygiene. (1942) (2)
- Supervision as Counseling (1941) (2)
- Needed Research in Diagnosing Personality and Conduct (1931) (2)
- Chapter II: The Case Study as a Research Method (1945) (2)
- The Abilities of Man; Their Nature and Measurement (2)
- The Occupations of High-School Graduates and Non-Graduates (1922) (2)
- The Accuracy of Certain Standard Tests for School Sectioning and Marking. (2)
- Pupil Evaluation and Self-Evaluation (1952) (2)
- A Symposium on the Classification of Educational Research (Continued from the May issue) (1931) (2)
- A Personality Survey of a Junior High School (1947) (2)
- New directions for projective techniques. (1949) (2)
- Real Topics for Writing and Speaking (1930) (1)
- A Course in the Technique of Educational Research (1927) (1)
- Psychological diagnosis in social adjustment, including an annotated list of tests, questionnaires, and rating scales for the study of personality and conduct (1934) (1)
- Education for the Development of Personality (1948) (1)
- The prediction of personal adjustment. (1942) (1)
- Are projective test data valid bases for prediction? (1954) (1)
- Securing Rapport in Interviewing (1938) (1)
- Life Problems and Interests of Adults (1936) (1)
- Implications of Fantasy for Education (1949) (1)
- New trends in clinical psychology. (1948) (1)
- Essentials of Good Parent-Child Relations (1949) (1)
- Evaluation in professional education. (1957) (1)
- Chapter VII: Projective Methods in the Study of Personality (1941) (1)
- Welfare of the Teacher (1952) (1)
- Difficulty, Reliability, and Grade Achievements in a Test of English Vocabulary (1923) (1)
- A Protest Against the Current View of Instinct. (1)
- Classroom Discipline (1949) (1)
- Leta S. Hollingworth. (1940) (1)
- “Securing Rapport in Interviewing.” Teachers College Record 39: 707–722, May 1938 (1953) (1)
- A Second Approximation to the Curve of the Distribution of Intelligence of the Population of the United States, with a Note on the Standardization of the Stanford Revision of the Binet-Simon Scale. (1)
- Chapter IV: Educational Measurements* (1956) (1)
- Psychoanalytic concepts and principles discernible in projective personality tests; workshop, 1956. 6. The predictive significance of fantasy. (1958) (1)
- A new meaning for educational psychology. (1939) (1)
- Chapter VII: Welfare of the Teacher (1952) (1)
- Causes and prevention of delinquency. (1)
- Chapter V: Development and Educational Significance of Protective Technics in Personality Measurement (1950) (0)
- Mental Hygiene in Education (1941) (0)
- Biological and physiological basis of conduct. (0)
- Educational research as a method of thinking. (1936) (0)
- What Education Has to Learn from Psychology1 (1960) (0)
- Notes and Reviews: Projective Methods in the Study of Personality (1945) (0)
- Psychodrama, Vol. II. Foundations of Psychotherapy by J. L. Moreno Beacon (1960) (0)
- Thinking about conduct. (1936) (0)
- Another Investigation of the Relation of High-School and College Marks (1932) (0)
- The Province of Psychological Couseling (1936) (0)
- Learning the meaning of a word, term, or phrase. (1936) (0)
- The place of reasoning in conduct. (0)
- The Liberal Arts College Problem (1930) (0)
- Studies in the Learning of English Expression (1929) (0)
- The Role of the Affects in the Ego. (1951) (0)
- The Role of the Ego in Pathological States. (1951) (0)
- Chapter XIII: Welfare of the Individual Teacher (1949) (0)
- Exhortations and hints for students. (0)
- The Lag in Clinical Research (1945) (0)
- Nature vs. nurture. (1926) (0)
- Report of the committee on the judging of science essays (1932) (0)
- Handbook of Experimental Psychology. (1952) (0)
- What the Elementary School Teacher Has to Learn from Psychology (1960) (0)
- Common Faults in Graduate Research in Education (1934) (0)
- Chapter VI: Projective Methods in the Study of Personality1 (1941) (0)
- What we know about superior children. (0)
- Ideo-motor conduct. (0)
- Validation of a Personality Survey of a Junior High School (1948) (0)
- PSYCHIATRY: Psychiatry and the War edited by Frank J. Sladen. Springfield, Ill.; Charles C Thomas. 464 pp. $5.00 (1946) (0)
- Some important confacts. (0)
- Statement of relationships. (1936) (0)
- Some forces governing conduct. (0)
- Behavior Theory and Social Science. (1957) (0)
- The Psychology of the Interview. (1941) (0)
- What Education Has to Learn from Psychology1: III. Punishment (1956) (0)
- Development of the Self. (1951) (0)
- What education can do to improve thinking. (1936) (0)
- Making a decision. (1936) (0)
- Book Reviews: Psychotherapy in Child Guidance. (1948) (0)
- Book reviews: Personality. (1948) (0)
- The main divisions of conduct. (0)
- Review of Psychology and psychotherap, fourth edition. (1945) (0)
- Ego, Superego, and Self-Ideals. (1951) (0)
- Some Empirical Principles of Child Guidance (1944) (0)
- How Do Good Habits of Thinking Begin (1947) (0)
- The Third Mental Measurements Yearbook. (1949) (0)
- Educational psychology: Techniques of educational adjustment. (1950) (0)
- What Education Has to Learn from Psychology1: V. Learning is Reacting (1957) (0)
- Selection of basis of comparison. (1936) (0)
- What Education Has to Learn from Psychology1, VII. Transfer and Formal Discipline (1959) (0)
- Chapter I: Review and Preview (1938) (0)
- Self-Feeling and Self-Valuation. (1951) (0)
- Education for Ego and Self Development. (1951) (0)
- A Plea for the Integration of School Guidance Activities (1937) (0)
- Diagnosis of citizenship and leadership. (1934) (0)
- Imperfections in thinking. (1936) (0)
- What Education Has to Learn from Psychology1, VIII. Individual Differences (1959) (0)
- Functions of the Ego. (1951) (0)
- Diagnosis of criminal tendencies. (1934) (0)
- Real help for the college student. (0)
- The Testing Program for the High School (1932) (0)
- Criteria for the Life History. (1936) (0)
- Needed Research in the Teaching of English (1933) (0)
- The Accuracy of Certain Standard Tests for School Classification (1924) (0)
- Psychoanalytic Therapy and Its Implications. (1946) (0)
- Study Habits of High School Pupils (1926) (0)
- The Place of the Ego and the Self in Psychotherapy. (1951) (0)
- Comparison on a single designated basis. (1936) (0)
- Formulating a definition. (1936) (0)
- Review of Science and Human Behavior. (1954) (0)
- A Text on Adjustment. (1956) (0)
- The Psychology of Personality by Bernard Notcutt (1957) (0)
- The Structure of the Ego. (1951) (0)
- So What is Psychoanalysis (1959) (0)
- Studies in the Learning of English Expression (1929) (0)
- Diagnosis of mental disorder. (0)
- Ego Breakdown and Depersonalization. (1951) (0)
- Review of Personality and the Behavior Disorders, a Handbook Based on Experimental and Clinical Research. (1944) (0)
- Diagnosis of vocational fitness. (0)
- General conduct—Confacts. (0)
- Case-study and test-methods. (1947) (0)
- German psychological warfare. (1942) (0)
- Clinical Psychology: A Handbook of Children's Behavior Problems. (1937) (0)
- Review and Preview (1938) (0)
- Welfare of the Individual Teacher (1949) (0)
- Implications of an Expanded Research Program in the U. S. Office of Education for the American Educational Research Association (1956) (0)
- Providing illustrations or examples. (1936) (0)
- Character and personality. (0)
- The Normal Child (1936) (0)
- The place of symbols in conduct. (0)
- What Education Has to Learn from Psychology1 (1958) (0)
- The expression of personality. (1944) (0)
- Ability standards : for standardized achievement tests in the high school (0)
- The place of visceral reactions in conduct. (0)
- Characteristics of a Good Dissertation in Education (1933) (0)
- Job-Analysis Sheet for Computing Partial and Multiple Coefficients of Correlation and Regression Coefficients (1925) (0)
- Educational Planning (1948) (0)
- On What Basis Should a High School Boy Choose His Curriculum? (1931) (0)
- Fundamental overt habits of conduct. (0)
- The Culture of John Doe (1931) (0)
- Steps in Psychotherapy; The Process of Psychotherapy; Psychotherapy: Theory and Research; The Roots of Psychotherapy; and, The Technique of Psychotherapy. (1955) (0)
- Curriculum construction in conduct. (0)
- Needed Research in the Field of Measurement in Secondary Education (1927) (0)
- A study of the traits of Chinese students in America. (0)
- Reinforcing Learning in the Elementary School Subjects (1960) (0)
- Critical Reviews of Recent Books (1952) (0)
- The Influence on Scholarship of Factors other than Intelligence (1931) (0)
- From Infancy to Adulthood. (1953) (0)
- Special Disability in Algebra (0)
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