Bureaucratic orientations and autonomy have significant linear and curvilinear relations with attitude measures of ideal of service and dedication to teaching. Bureaucratic orientations and the professional attitudes of teachers need not be in conflict if schools increase the autonomy allowed teachers. (Author/IRT)

Sex differences were found in relations between school attitudes, ability, and achievement. It is suggested that at each attitude level increases in cognitive ability are associated with increments in achievement, and at different ability levels increases in attitude scores are related to increments in achievement. (RC)

This study goes beyond much of previous research by using regression models to generate regression surfaces and by including measures of family and school environments in analyzing relations between personality and measures of cognitive and affective characteristics in Australian 12-year-old children. (Author/KR)

By using complex multiple regression models to generate regression surfaces, the relationships between academic achievement, creativity, and intelligence are examined. Findings indicate that for certain academic subjects creativity is related to achievement up to a threshold level of intelligence, but after the threshold has been reached…

In the present study an examination is made of a relatively new approach to the assessment of learning environments. (Author)

Using a national survey of 11-, 12-, and 15-year-old English students, the relationship between intelligence and academic achievement was examined at different levels of socioeconomic status and family environment. Regression surfaces were constructed from models which examined possible linear, interaction, and curvilinear relations between the…