Aileene Lockhart

The Development of a Test of Badminton Playing Ability

(1949). The Development of a Test of Badminton Playing Ability. Research Quarterly. American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 402-405.

Retention and Relearning of Gross Motor Skills after Long Periods of No Practice

Abstract Retention and relearning of five novel gross motor skills after a long period of no practice were studied. College women were classified into high, average, and low skill groups in a previous experiment, and this classification of 36 of the original subjects was retained in the present retesting study. A high degree of skill was retained after approximately one year of no practice. Relearning to previously attained skill levels was rapid. There were significant differences among classified high, average, and low skill groups in learning, retention, and relearning.

Book Review: The Structure and Measurement of Physical Fitness and Examiner's Manual for the Basic Fitness TestsFleishmanEdwin A.. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Printice-Hall, Inc.1964. Pp. 207.

by one’s familiarity with tests as well as by one’s attitude toward the meaning of tests. Smith’s contribution is that he has brought together a very broad knowledge of tests with what appears to this reviewer to be a sensible view of the nature of man. Since among psychologists there is little consensus regarding the nature of man, Smith’s interpretations will not be convincing to all psychologists. Fortunately, the data cited by Smith are not restricted either to studies of cognitive tests or to the results of factor analyses. He ineludes chapters on temperament and on various physiological studies. This breadth of view is one of the main virtues of the book. This book may be commended to the attention of persons other than just those interested in spatial ability. The problems and challenges faced by those interested in spatial ability twenty years ago have something in common with the problems and challenges faced by the students of “creativity” today. And the case that can be made for the importance of spatial ability to education can, perhaps, be made for other talents as well. Macfarlane Smith proposes that education may be too exclusively verbal. Surely he is right, although psychologists may have yet to discover how to educate the verbally inept. Anyone who wishes to broaden the base of education may find some interest and value in this book. CHARLES T. MYERS Educational Testing Service Princeton, N e w Jersey