How Supervise?

Abstract

The readability of the directions and items in File's How Supervise? is at the difficult level. Much of the material is at the high school graduate level of readability. In contrast, less than a quarter of a nationwide sample of foremen were high school graduates. To the extent to which educational attainment is an indication of reading ability the test can be read only with great difficulty by the average factory foremen. Therefore, for lower level personnel How Supervise? is of doubtful validity as a measure of supervisory ability. 3 items were rephrased to show how the test could be made more readable. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)