The present survey investigated psychodiagnostic test usage and practices of the Society for Personality Assessment. A brief questionnaire was forwarded to 400 SPA members and 206 responded for a 51.5% rate of return. Projective techniques found popular in previous surveys of Division 12 were the major assessment instruments utilized by SPA members. Exner's comprehensive system was the preferred mode of Rorschach analysis, followed by the Klopfer and Beck systems. The Wechsler Scales and the MMPI were frequently included in conducting a psychological battery. Personality assessment was mainly utilized for diagnostic purposes and as an indicator for type of therapy.

The purpose of the present study was to identify the factor structure of the Adult Nowicki-Strickland I-E Scale (ANS-IE) and to compare the results with those in a 1976 publication by Dixon, McKee, and McRae. The sample consisted of 174 subjects obtained from a college population. Both a two-factor and four-factor solution were obtained. Differential factor dimensionality was indicated for males and females. Further, the results revealed a high degree of similarity for Factor I items on the ANS-IE in relation to those obtained by Dixon et al. The findings support the contention that I-E is multidimensional in nature; however, these dimensions reflecting factorial validity have not been found to be consistently reliable across studies. Researchers are cautioned in utilizing items obtained from prior factor analytic studies in their research and in assuming that they measure necessarily comparable constructs.

Piotrowski (1983a, 1984) reported on variance in Osgood's (1957) formulation of three dimensions of semantic space on the semantic differential technique with a fifth grade sample. The current study was concerned with the consistency of factor structure in three adult samples using three different concepts: THE UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA, DEATH, and MYSELF. Results indicated consistency for the predicted Evaluation dimension (Factor I) and moderate consistency for both Potency and Activity dimensions across the three samples. However, some scales tended to be loaded significantly on more than one factor; this was particularly evident for the Evaluation dimension in that several non-Evaluative scales at times weighted on Factor I. Although the findings indicated a slight increase in factor invariance when compared to Piotrowski's earlier work with children, researchers are still cautioned to subject their semantic differential data to factorial methods so as to enhance the validity of their results.

This may be regarded as a continuation of the Klein Erlanger Programm, in the sense that a geometrical space with its group of transformations is generalized to a category with its algebra of mappings.

Often we stress the use of coordinate (analytic) methods when developing results in synthetic geometry. On the other hand, seldom (except for the Pythagorean theorem) do we utilize synthetic methods w^hen developing results in coordinate geometry. Perhaps the reasons being (1) results in coordinate geometry generally have straight forward (yet, often long) derivations without employing synthetic tools and (2) once the task of coordinatizing the plane is complete, textbooks usually find it more convenient (and rightly so) to introduce new techniques rather than to capitalize on previously developed results in synthetic geometry.This note utilizes results from synthetic geometry to give a short and simple derivation for, (1) the formula for the distance from a point to a line in two-dimensional space and, (2) the formula for the distance from a point to a plane in three-dimensional space.Let L be a line with equation Ax + By + C = 0, A^0, B > 0, and P(Xo, Yo) be a point not on L. Let P', Q, R, S, T be as illustrated in