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Against a general background of learning aptitude and educational achievement testing of blind children, and of basic orientation for such work, the development and nature of the Blind Learning Aptitude Test (BLAT), an individual test, are described. Standardized upon 961 widely representative educationally blind children, it had high reliability and its validity particularly with respect to the more complex school learnings was clearly indicated. It had particular value not only when its results were combined with those of the Hayes-Binet (though understandably lower when combined with those of the verbal portion of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children), but especially when used with blind children coming from backgrounds offering limited cultural nurturance.

This is the second in a series of two articles on the testing of journalistic aptitudes at the University of Minnesota. The first, by Dr. Cook, professor of education at Minnesota, appeared in the June 1945 Quarterly.

This article re‐examines data from the Nonreading Aptitude Test Battery (NATB) and General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) test manuals in light of some conventionally accepted psychometric considerations. The NATB standardization sample is adequate. However, the validity is open to question since the NATB demonstrates only a modest correlation with the GATB. It is recommended that caution be employed in relating NATB profiles to the Occupational Aptitude Patterns' norms. This is especially relevant since the NATB, lacking norms of its own, relies on GATB norms and its derived Occupational Aptitude Pattern (OAP).