Four indices for investigating inter-observer accuracy in observational instruments (contingency coefficient, Scott's pi, Bernstein's coefficient, and percent agreement) are reviewed concerning their assumptions, formulation, and tables indicating numerical functioning. Three of the four indices (excluding the contingency coefficient) are compared…

This study was an attempt to shed further light upon the general issue of student and teacher attitudes and beliefs by developing an instrument constructed upon an independently conceived two-dimensional model of educational opinions. (Author/RK)

The present study was designed to assess whether different instructions would influence Ss' scores on standard intelligence tests. (Author)

Describes how Developmental Sentence Scoring, an instrument or procedure for estimating a child's native language development, can be used to measure second language acquisition. (PMP)

The purpose of this study was to analyze the needs of disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged students in the sixth grade, ninth grade, and twelfth grade in selected public schools in Mississippi. (Auth)

A project was conducted to develop a series of studies that will enable one to measure attitudes with reasonable accuracy. Nine stages of project activity were identified: design optical scanning form; write computer program to analyze data; determine adjective pairs; factor scales on elementary pupils; factor scales on high school students and…

Author looked at research's hidden curriculum, and suggested that its techniques and assumptions need to be demystified. (Editor/RK)

The present study provides evidence that there are differences in judged desirability between mentioning hygiene factors and talking about motivators. (Author)

Results are discussed in terms of Piaget's concept of the parallel development of the cognition of the impersonal and interpersonal worlds. (Authors)

This study was designed to determine whether alcoholics are more alienated, as measured by Dean's Social Alienation Scale, than a comparable group of normals and, in particular, to establish the degree to which these populations differ regarding the specific components of the alienation measure, i.e., normlessness, powerlessness, and social…

Seven steps describe the process of building and using a survey: (1) establishing the target group, (2) building survey questions, (3) using the card method, (4) conducting the survey interview, (5) analyzing survey results, (6) involving line management, and (7) appraising the approach. A sample survey form is included. (Author/MW)

This study examined two categories of stress as a possible factor in previously mixed findings with regard to sex differences. (Author)