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The aim of this study is to evaluate the over-all effectiveness of nondirective teaching of an undergraduate course in general psychology. It is the specific intention of the experiment to investigate the value of the nondirective method in effecting changes in students' intellectual, social, and emotional adjustment. The subjects in this experiment were students at Mohawk College enrolled during the spring semester of 1948. They were all male veterans of World War II , whose average age was twenty-one. All of the subjects had successfully completed the first semester of a year course in general psychology and had registered for the second semester of the course. The results of this study seem to confirm those of other investigators of group nondirective psychotherapy. Profiles on pre-tests and end tests of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory were compared for subjects in the experimental group and control group No. 2. Blind analyses and interpretations were made and each student was classified as having become better adjusted, poorer adjusted or not having changed in the area of emotional adjustment after being subjected to the different classroom situations. The statistical results indicate that the nondirective group improved to a significantly greater degree than the control group. Other evidence available on members of the experimental group suggest that the therapeutic aspects of their learning situation was a factor in a number of cases for these changes

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