Sidney H Newman

Biographic Data

ID163196
NAMESidney H Newman
GIVEN NAMESSidney H
FAMILY NAMENewman
SIGNATURENEWMAN S H
AFFILIATIONSU. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR26
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1944
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
H-INDEX1

  • Behavioral-Social Aspects of Contraceptive Sterilization

    James Mccarthy, Sidney H Newman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family1980

  • Behavioral-Social Aspects of Contraceptive Sterilization

    Sidney H Newman, Zanvel E KleinARTICLEStudies in Family Planning1979Cited by: 1

    This volume contains revised versions of papers presented at a workshop, held in June 1973, on Behavioral-Social Aspects of Contraceptive Sterilization. Although workshop provided a comprehensive coverage of important issues related to contraceptive sterilization, book suffers from five year lag between workshop and publication. In introduction, editors state that the articles presented in this volume continue to represent best and most current t…

  • Population Psychology

    Pablo E Carreño H, Sidney H Newman et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review1978

  • Behavioral-Social Aspects of Contraceptive Sterilization

    Pablo E Carreño H, Sidney H Newman et al.ARTICLEPopulation and Development Review1978

  • Abortion, Obtained and Denied, Research Approaches

    Martin E Danzig, Sidney H Newman et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1973

  • Support for psychologists in the population and family planning areas

    Sidney H Newman, Miriam F KeltyARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1972

  • Report of the Task Force on Psychology, Family Planning, and Population Policy

    Henry P David, James T Fawcett et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1972

  • Prediction of Supervisors' Ratings of Medical Intern Performance

    Open AccessMargaret A Howell, Sidney H NewmanARTICLEPsychological Reports1971

    Supervisors' forced-choice ratings at the end of training were used as a performance criterion for 84 medical interns in the United States Public Health Service Hospitals. A predictive battery, consisting of both intellective and non-intellective measures, yielded a multiple correlation of .48 against this criterion. The study is considered only suggestive, but the predictable variance in the supervisory criterion appeared to involve speed of mot…

  • Abortion, Obtained and Denied

    Sidney H Newman, Mildred B Beck et al.ARTICLEStudies in Family Planning1970Cited by: 1

    Research proposals and papers from the Second Workshop on Abortion, Obtained and Denied; Research Approaches to Outcomes were summarized. Major research proposals included: mortality and morbidity, mental health and related considerations, abortion and family planning, and socioeconomic factors. Papers reviewed were: Somatic consequences of abortion (Tietze), outcomes of induced abortion: medical-clinical view (Cushner). Therapeutic abortion; a l…

  • Abortion

    M Beck, M B Beck et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health…1969

    Abortion: a national public and mental health problem-past, present, and proposed research. M B Beck, S H Newman, and S LewitCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.59.12.2131 Published Online: August 29, 2011

  • How psychologists are utilized in the United States Public Health Service

    Sidney H Newman, Marie AliARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1968

  • Organized Psychology and the Crisis in Testing

    Open AccessSidney H NewmanARTICLEPsychological Reports1966

    Psychological testing and many other areas of psychology have suffered markedly from a lack of understanding by the American public. The public has lost many benefits to be derived from psychology. A Department of Public Affairs should be established in the APA to inform and educate the public concerning the problems and benefits of testing and to make the theories, methods, and findings of psychologists understood by, and useful to, as many peop…

  • Do Objective Professional Examinations Involve Reasoning

    Open AccessSidney H Newman, Margaret A HowellARTICLEPsychological Reports1966

    An objective professional examination in medicine and three relatively “pure” tests of reasoning were administered to a key development group of 88 medical interns and a cross-validation group of 83 interns. Results suggest that professional examination items involving reasoning can be identified by a physician or by item-analysis against reasoning tests. Judgmentally identified items correlated .35 to .49 with general and deductive reasoning; it…

  • Psychologist, Heal Thyself

    Open AccessSidney H NewmanARTICLEPsychological Reports1966

    The American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology should discharge its responsibility to society, to psychology, and to psychologists by developing the best possible measures of professional competence at the diplomate level. This means a change from exclusive use of essay and oral examinations to greater utilization of objective professional examinations

  • Improving the Evaluation of Submitted Manuscripts

    Sidney H NewmanARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1966Cited by: 3

  • Those wonderful meetings

    Sidney H NewmanARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1964

  • Validity of Forced-Choice Items for Obtaining References on Physicians

    Open AccessSidney H Newman, Margaret A HowellARTICLEPsychological Reports1961

    Statements concerning qualifications of medical applicants for a Public Health Service commission are obtained from applicants' employers, teachers, or work associates. In an exploratory study, a Reference Statement was designed composed of 10-forced-choice tetrads selected from 50 used in an Experimental Efficiency Report and scored by keys developed against a Work Associates' rating criterion (1, 2 ) . Validity data from this exploratory study …

  • Validity of Forced-Choice Items for Obtaining References on Physicians

    Sidney H NewmanARTICLEPsychological Reports1961

  • Further Validation of Methods for Evaluating the Performance of Physicians

    Open AccessMargaret A Howell, Norman Cliff et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1960

    Harris, 1957). The experimental Efficiency Report contains four kinds of performance evaluation methods: 50 Forced-Choice tetrads (FC), a 10-point scale for rating Job Proficiency (JP), eight 10-point scales for rating various Personal Qualifications (PQ), and a 22-item Check List (CL). When the original and cross-validation samples of physicians were combined in the previous study, validity coefficients for the various evaluation methods ranged …

  • The Analysis and Prediction of a Practical Examination in Dentistry

    Open AccessSidney H Newman, Margaret A Howell et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1959

  • Forced Choice Tetrads—Effect of Scoring Procedure and Key Length On Validity and Reliability

    Open AccessFrank J Harris, Margaret A Howell et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1956

  • Convention impressions

    Michael Amrine, Samuel W Fernberger et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1953

  • Analysis of Criteria for the Validation of Selection Measures at the United States Coast Guard Academy

    Open AccessSidney H Newman, John W French et al.ARTICLEEducational and Psychological…1952

  • The Officer Selection and Evaluation Program of the U. S. Public Health Service

    Sidney H NewmanARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health…1951

    The Officer Selection and Evaluation Program of the U. S. Public Health Service Sidney H. Newman CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.41.11_Pt_1.1395 Published Online: September 06, 2011

  • The reliability of the interview method in an officer candidate evaluation program

    Sidney H Newman, Joseph M Bobbitt et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1946References: 1

    Each of 399 Coast Guard Reserve officer candidates and 137 SPAR officer candidates was interviewed independently by one of two psychologists and by a psychiatrist. The bases of evaluation were complex and covered (1) ability to pass the academic training, (2) the ability to withstand psychological pressures and tensions of the training program, and (3) ability to withstand the trauma of combat and the demands of service life. The interview rating…