The Test of Interpersonal Competence for Employment (TICE) is a product of a variety of research projects which occurred over a four-year time span. We wish to pay tribute to the people who helped us in our work. Philip Browning. Andrew Halpern, Larry Irvin, Susan Peterson and Hill Walker, our colleagues at the University of Oregon, helped us conceptualize the area and put our ideas into action. In the same vein, the writings of Goldfried and D'Zurilla (1969) and Weinstein (1969) contributed greatly to our understanding of social competence.
Mark Litvin and Bob Darnell of the Colorado Department of Rehabilitation and Harv Schubothe of the Oregon Vocational Rehabilitation Division were generous in sharing their expertise and the resources of their agencies. Similarly, the support of Pat Ellis and Ray Rothstrom of the Oregon Department of Education, and John Leslie and Harold Rupert of the Colorado Department of Education, was extremely helpful in securing the cooperation of teachers and students in their school systems.
We owe a great deal to the staff and clients of the rehabilitation facilities in Oregon, Washington, California, and Indiana. These people freely contributed their time and expertise to help develop assessment and training materials. The teachers and students in the Oregon and Colorado public schools also helped us greatly by field testing the materials that were developed.
We very much appreciate the work of Arden Munkres, who developed all graphic materials for the test. Bill Auty and Gary Nave's expertise in statistical procedures, data management, and computer technology was vital to the development of TICE. We are also grateful to Sandi Davis and Nancy Fish for typing the manuscripts for the project.
This project was supported, in part, by the United States Department of Education through the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (Project number 023XH40019). The support of these agencies was instrumental to the development of empirically-based assessment and curriculum materials, and we are grateful for their assistance. Finally, the contributions of James Stanfield and his colleagues have made the final version of this material both more useful for teachers and enjoyable for students.