Administrative Provisions for Guidance in Negro Colleges and Universities

Abstract

This study investigated the empirical validity of the Whitman School In-basket Test for elementary principals, Correlations were computed among scores from a predictive test, a concurrent test, and corresponding measures of observed on-the-job behavior. The results were: (1) there was evidence of stability of in-basket performance; (2) stylistic measures of principals’ in-basket performance were not substantially related to their on-the-job behavior; and (3) there was evidence that impressionistic measures of in-basket performance bore some relationship to impressions of on-the-job behavior.