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A Validation Study of Cognitively Experienced Communication Apprehension Scales.
Beatty, Michael Joseph – 1976
This study develops a self-report inventory of public speaking apprehension that establishes measures of content, construct, and predictive validity. An item pool was generated by students that were anxious about giving speeches, and the resulting instrument was then administered to the general student population and factor analyzed. Each factor…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Cognitive Measurement, Communication Research
Using the Affton Scale of Acceptable Written Expression to Decrease Disparity in Teachers Assigning a Level to Pupils' Written Expression.
Schippers, Lillian Vogt – 1974
The problem of this study was to find criteria, and a model, for judging written expression at the elementary level which can produce concordance of teacher judgments and be a possible basis for prescriptive teaching. Such a model was developed by the Affton School District. This study attempts to determine its utility. Twenty-four essays were…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
The Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure the Attitudes of Fifth Grade Children toward Literature.
McAleer, Nancy Marie – 1974
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument to be used to measure the attitudes of fifth grade students toward literature. A research instrument of sixty items was developed and administered to 205 fifth grade students in schools around Orlando, Florida. Based on the results of the study, the following conclusions were…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
An Evaluation of Oral Reading Miscues in Second Grade Subjects.
Jackson, Sheila M. – 1975
This study examined the revised Goodman taxonomy, the Oral Reading Miscues Inventory, as a means of evaluating reading achievement. A sample of 128 second-grade students was tested with a standardized reading test, the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, to determine their current reading achievement levels. Causal conversation was recorded on tape for…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 2, Measurement Instruments, Miscue Analysis
The Relationship between Story Writing Skills and Achievement in Other Selected Language Skills.
Vairo, Frank Marion, Jr. – 1976
This study investigated the effectiveness of the Story Writing Scales of the Personalized Progress Assessment set in determining the writing capabilities of fourth, sixth, and eighth graders and assessed the relationship between students' story-writing competencies and their achievements in reading comprehension, vocabulary, usage, and spelling.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary Education
The Design and Validation of an Instrument for Identifying and Measuring the Coping Behaviors of Three-Year-Olds in Pre-School Settings.
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Silvernail, Jean Marie – 1974
Coping is defined as the process by which the child attempts to control, synthesize, and make his world manageable. Coping behaviors found in the literature and observed in five preschool classrooms were behaviorally defined to facilitate their identification and observation by trained adults. An instrument designed for use in observation of these…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Observation Techniques, Coping
Prediction of Academic Performance of the U.S. Navy Officer Students in Operations Research/Systems Analysis Curriculum at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Soetrisno, Heru – 1975
A study of the U.S. Navy officer students who were registered in the Operations Research/System Analysis curriculum at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in spring, 1974, was conducted using biographical data, the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, and the Graduate Record Examination to develop an equation predicting academic performance of U.S.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Biographical Inventories, Grade Prediction