Intercorrelations among overall clinical performance ratings, examination scores, and overall grade-point average were computed for a graduating class of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine to increase understanding of cognitive and noncognitive attributes of clinical performance. (Author/JMD)

Describes study of Israeli secondary school students that was conducted to determine the extent to which gender and prior computer exposure affect students' attitudes toward computers prior to computer instruction in school. An attitude questionnaire designed to measure affective and cognitive attitudes toward computers is described, and results…

Classroom boredom in the secondary mathematics classroom is a problem that can be addressed from knowledge of the intrinsic motivational variable of "interestingness." The lack of a theoretical model of interest is an obstacle in research that investigates this variable. This paper describes the three stages in the development of a model…