An instrument was designed to identify implicit values in secondary school physical education classes by measuring achievement, autonomy, orderliness, privacy, specificity, and universalism. (MB)

Good God, It's Dope!", a unique questionnaire, is presented along with scoring information. It was developed to help school personnel cope successfully with one of the questions they face with regard to drug abuse, namely: How much and what kind of drug education shall we provide for students in our school? (Author/BY)

A study was carried out to obtain systematic quantitative data about the types of verbal behavior used by instructors and students in teaching and learning a foreign language. (Author)

A review of the literature indicates that measures of the McClelland-Atkinson need-Achievement (nAch) construct are weak in terms of both reliability and validity. The most serious weakness of the model's validity is the lack of evidence for the hypothesized positive relationship between nAch and performance. In addition, the inverse relationship…

Using tape recorded psychotherapy sessions, three methods of assessing the quality of a psychotherapist's empathy were compared. One of the results was that the three scales were not measuring different qualities as the intercorrelations among the three empathy measures were virtually perfect when corrected for unreliability. (Author/CG)

The results of this study provided additional support for the fruitfulness of conceptualizing four separate rational forms of novelty experiencing, as well as additional construct validation for each of the four measures. Overall the differentiation of the forms among themselves and with the external variables was reasonably good. (Author)

Responses of Massachusetts groups of 200 male and 200 female delinquents to the items of the School Interest Inventory were contrasted with 200 male and 200 female nondelinquents. The same procedure was followed with an identical number of subjects in Rhode Island. Items which appeared significant at the .20 level in at least one subgroup of 100…

To the extent that brain dysfunction is present in violence-prone groups, one may expect that assessment of simple perceptual and cognitive abilities may facilitate significantly the detection of subjects prone to violent behavior. This research examines the ability of neuropsychological tests to discriminate between violent and nonviolent…