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Harder, Amy; Gouldthorpe, Jessica; Goodwin, Jeff – Journal of Extension, 2014
Understanding motivation and job satisfaction is important for increasing rates of employee retention within Extension. The purpose of the study reported here was to explore factors positively affecting the motivation of Extension professionals in their careers. An online survey of Extension professionals in Colorado was conducted. Factors such as…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Extension Agents, State Programs, Motivation
Oltman, Philip K. – 1994
The possibility exists that some people might be at a disadvantage in registering their responses to a computerized test if mouse manipulation were complicated. This would be of particular concern if some groups were differentially affected by the complexity of manipulation. This study analyzed data from a pilot test conducted in 1991 for the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Literacy, Difficulty Level, Individual Differences
McCormick, Bruce K.; And Others – 1983
Alternate forms of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) were administered five separate times to 57 men and women of military service age. The objective was to determine to what extent means and cross-session correlations are stable over several administrations. Ten individual subtests, the derived ASVAB area composites and the…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Drills (Practice), Individual Differences, Military Personnel
Stricker, Lawrence J.; Rock, Donald A.; Pollack, Judith M.; Wenglinsky, Harold H. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2002
This study explored individual differences in educational disadvantage-- deficits in formal and informal education in the school, home, and elsewhere--in the SAT test-taking population. Factor analysis identified six educational disadvantage factors--four concerning the students' schools and two the students' nativity and parenting--and one family…
Descriptors: Research Reports, College Entrance Examinations, Individual Differences, Disadvantaged