Staff's estimations of the performance of mentally handicapped adults on a test of moral knowledge.

: This paper reports an investigation to determine whether staff in an Adult Training Centre could estimate the performance of adults who are mentally handicapped on a test of moral knowledge. It also sought to discover whether estimations are more accurate in instances where staff claim to have a closer knowledge of the subjects. Not only do the results indicate that training staff are unable to estimate accurately, but they overestimate knowledge in this subject area. The degree of knowledge of the subjects made no difference to the accuracy of staff estimations. The implications of these results are considered in terms of the training needs of staff in Adult Training Centre and the use of assessment criteria prior to the entry of students into specific training programmes.