The use of interview data in quantifying the individual's role in the group.

The reliability of the interview method in an officer candidate evaluation program.

“…This table indicated the probability of success or failure at each score level and was available to the interviewer. 4 In other words, each interviewer had at hand, before the interview, the same material concerning the abilities and background characteristics of the candidates. Furthermore, during the developmental stages of the program, the psychologists and the psychiatrists discussed at length the desirable and undesirable attributes to be considered, and arrived at substantial agreement on the characteristics to be evaluated.…”

An experimental application of projective principals to a paper and pencil personality test.

“…The former term was chosen for use here in order to avoid the valuative connotation usually attached to sublimation.' "Child (6) has offered some helpful suggestions toward similar methods of increasing the objectivity of a single investigator dealing with ratings of qualitative materials.' Although not directly applicable to this problem, some were adapted as guides in the procedure used.…”

“…Checks on reliability of scoring and interpretation have been frequently ignored;5 claims of validity, based on congruence with other data have been sometimes hastily advanced. 6 In die later stages of experimentation, blind matching and blind interpretation techniques have been used. Although these do succeed in demonstrating congruence between data, or between judges' interpretations, they offer no information on the process of interpretation or on the cues which have been used.…”

Techniques for the diagnosis and measurement of intergroup attitudes and behavior.

“…The practice of classifying qualitative material into certain formal categories can also be applied to the intensive interview. Child (7) describes a semi-standardized use of intensive interviews in a study of the acculturation process in second-generation Italians. On the basis of life-history interviews and participant-observation in various social activities, a list of topics was formulated, each of which was posed and phrased by the interviewer in a uniform way, To enhance reliability of interpretation, criteria for analysis of responses were formally described before the analysis was begun.…”