The Inspection Rorschach in the Prediction of College Success

Abstract

THE PREDICTION of academic success for college students has long challenged educational psychologists, but for the most part, their re sults have been mediocre (3:847). Monroe reported that grades for col lege women could be predicted through combining the Inspection Rorschach(IR) and the American Council on Education Psychological Examination (2). This report is based upon an analysis of Rorschac h responses given by women attending Sara Lawrence College and upon general clinical experience. The present study attempts to answer the question, Does Monroe's method predict grade-point averages for stu dents attending San Francisco State College ? The plan of the study was relatively simple, involving the folio wing steps: choice of a sample of freshmen, both men and women, attending San Francisco State College during 1948-49, administer group Rorschach tests and the Ohio State University Psychological Test (OSU) to the sample; score the Rorschach tests according to Monroe's IR method; compute grade-point-averages (GPA) for each student after each of three consecutive semesters; compute the relationships between IR, OSU, and GPA; and finally, compare the results with those found by Monroe.

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