Book Reviews : Norman E. Gronlund, Constructing Achievement Tests (2nd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1977. Pp. x + 150. (paperback

desirable, helpful, and has some generality to the MMPI per se. However, the second invocation concerns the interpretation of these data. The authors did not choose to prepare a giant table comparing short forms across criteria, but rather did this task in context with the separate short form presentations. They elected instead to present their own data on five of the forms-the Midi-Mult, one Maxi-Mult, the Hugo, FAM, and MMPI-168-for populations of psychiatric inpatients, psychiatric outpatients, and college students. These data do not lead to substantially different conclusions concerning the relative merits of the short forms that does the form by form presentation. Another avenue to interpretation of comparative data on the FAM and MMPI comes from an adaptation by one of the authors (TRF) of the multitrait-multimethod matrix. While this is essentially a tour de force, it does illustrate the quality of creative thinking that antedated this monograph. Similarly, the use of conversion equations by estimation or substitution to convert from short form raw scores to estimated MMPI raw scores is indicative of the open-ended nature of their continuing investigation. Chapter Nine-New Approaches, Methods, and Issues-contains not only the two above approaches to interpretation but an important two-page introduction that bridges the gap between the format and the choice of how to interpret on the basis of this format. The authors have presented an abstract of necessary data and method in order to promote methodological continuity. I believe this to be a valuable statement and an acceptable addendum to the APA Technical Recommendations. Finally, the presentation of an alternative approach to tailor-made MMPI short forms and a discussion of test item ownership completes the monograph. I have consistently used the term &dquo;monograph&dquo; herein to suggest the limited nature of this treatise. However, it should also be reiterated that the issues explored, the manner of exposition, and generality of the methodology used warrant a much larger readership than is generally accorded a monograph. This is a careful, scholarly, sound discussion of the current (and would be) status of MMPI short forms and needs to be in the library of every professional