Comparing the Personal development test scores against GPA, grade, and age of typical high school students.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Demoulin, Donald F.; Walsh, Robert J.
- Source
- Journal of Instructional Psychology; March 2002, Vol. 29 Issue 1, p22-24, 3p
- Subject
- Maturation (Psychology) scales
Age
High school students
Psychology of high school students
Grade point average
Age differences
Maturation (Psychology)
Grading of students
- Language
- ISSN
- 00941956
The Personal Development Test (PDT) (2001) is designed to assess the personal development of individuals, and as a meaningful index of one's Global Functioning as described in the DSM-IV (1994). It is structured on the basis of the Dewey definition of democracy—“the interdependence of independent individuals.” The 200 true/false type items are distributed with 25 in each of the 8 part scores. The first four of those scores seek to measure Personal Maturity for the “independence” element in the Dewey definition, and the second four parts to measure Social Integration for the “interdependence” one. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.