Practice effects on the Minnesota Vocational Test for Clerical Workers

Abstract

A sample comprising 65 male and 32 female college students were given the test on three closely-spaced occasions. For both men and women the inter-trial differences were all significant at better than the .001 level, for both the Numbers and Names scores. The centile ranks of the mean scores (on norms for employed clerical workers) increased from below 50 on the first occasion to 72-91 on the last trial. With equal amounts of practice, a constant sex difference in favor of women is noted, but with three trials men can practically equal the original performance by women. It is suggested that alternate forms might overcome the practice effect. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)