Evidence regarding the impact of teachers' instructional development on student learning in higher education is scarce. In this study the authors investigate the impact of an instructional development programme for beginning university teachers on students' approach to studying. They also explore whether this impact is dependent on class size and…

One aim of the present study was to discriminate among three models relating dreams and daydreams together and the revelation of distinct styles of daydreaming. (Author/RK)

Purpose of this study was to determine the reproduciblity of the RSAP factor structure in college samples. (Authors)

The present study was an attempt to investigate the specific form of the relationship of persistence to academic performance, with a consideration of the information-processing value of persistence. (Author)

Study considers similarities in listener reaction to musical compositions. (RK)

This study attempted to test the relationship between optimal total heterophily and communication effectiveness, to identify relevant dimensions of homophily/heterophily in achieving communication effectiveness, and to demonstrate a method for measuring source-receiver heterophily, as well as examining their relationship to the communication…

Study investigated the validity of several scales from the Differential Personality Inventory, a personality questionnaire designed to measure a number of variables relevant to psychopathology. (Authors)

This study investigated the patterns of: (1) correctly perceived emotions, and (2) erroneously perceived emotions (i.e., those which are in fact perceived, when they are not expressed). It also related perception of emotion to (1) race of perceiver and expressor, and (2) sex perceiver and expressor. The experimental design involved a 2x2x2x2…

The present study is an attempt to explore the usefulness of demographic predictors of writing ability. Specifically, it is concerned with delineating the elements involved in writing and to ascertain the effects of achievement, language background, age, sex, social class, etc., on linguistic ability. (Author/RK)

The union and disjunction models for combining individual test marks to yield final grade distributions are outlined and examined empirically in two educational psychology classes. (Authors/CB)

Study was conducted to determine the factor structure of the instrument being used at Cleveland State University, and to provide a means of revising the content of the instrument. (Authors)

Conducted as part of a continuing effort to understand the nature of persistence and withdrawal at Southwestern College, this study focused on the student who signs up for classes, is active on the census date, but completely withdraws from school before the end of the semester. The study provides the following: (1) the descriptive statistics, the…