This study investigated that students' experiences in childhood, elementary school and junior high school, and their personalities affect technical evaluation in sewing and cooking at the senior high school level. The differences between excellent and poor students by their teachers' evaluations were analyzed through results of questionnaires and Y-G temperament tests. Most of the students who were excellent in sewing, had greater enthusiasm for sewing, which seemed to have begun in their earlier years. They had had more experience in embroidery or knitting befor they were ten years old, and were reputed to be skillful since their childhood. According to the Y-G temperament test, they proved to be the A (average) type. There were significant differences between the excellent and poor students in cooking in enthusiasm shown for physical education and they proved to be the D (director) type.
