Review of Testing and counseling in the high school guidance program

Abstract

Reviews the book, Testing and counseling in the high school guidance program by John G. Darley (1943). This book, although it covers familiar topics and material, it does so in a manner which should make it appeal to the high school teacher starting out in vocational guidance. While not a book for the specialist, it is one with which specialists should be familiar, for it presents the methods of testing and test interpretation in a context and manner which help to make them seem valuable and practical to the non-psychologically trained persons who now carry the burden of such vocational guidance as is available to most high school students. The book is at once a text on testing and a text on counseling procedures, but it does not deal in great detail with either topic. It would make a good text for a first course in testing or counseling for nonpsychologists, following a basic course in the principles of vocational guidance. It will be valuable, when properly supplemented, in elementary testing courses and in introductory counseling courses in which it is necessary to survey testing techniques. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)