Interest in the effect of positive and negative emotions in foreign language acquisition has soared recently because of the positive psychology movement (Dewaele & MacIntyre, 2014, 2016; MacIntyre, Gregersen & Mercer, 2016). No work so far has been carried out on the differential effect of positive and negative emotions on foreign language…

This paper was produced as an added resource for the report "Outcomes from the Productivity Places Program 2009." "Outcomes from the Productivity Places Program 2009" presents information about the outcomes of students who completed their vocational education and training (VET) under the Productivity Places Program (PPP)…

How do the best administrators find out how to improve their schools? They actively engage the people who work and study there. In "From Questions to Actions: Using Questionnaire Data for Continuous School Improvement," data experts Victoria L. Bernhardt and Bradley J. Geise explain how to collect and analyze data with an eye toward positive…

A second follow-up of students in five cities in 1947 who had taken the Differential Aptitude Tests is reported. Questionnaires were sent out to 2,386 individuals, and replies were received from 1,430. Their Differential Aptitude Test scores were converted to standard scores with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10, based upon the original…

The identification of persons qualified for management positions in supermarkets is the subject of this report based on a master's problem. The overall objective of the study was to develop criteria that would indicate an employee's abilities in leadership, communications, mathematics, and judgment. The development of management training was based…

This report is a description of the instrumentation, methodology, and sample obtained for the final phase of the study concerned with the Occupational Inventory Management Specialist. Inventory managers were asked to keep a Daily Activity Log for five days and to record the range of activities and interaction with others in the process of…

This invitational conference was convened to report the principal findings of a six-year study of possible sources of bias in the prediction of job performance. The research was conducted jointly by Educational Testing Service and the U.S. Civil Service Commission, supported by the Ford Foundation. Data were gathered on test and job performance of…

This guide to surveying college students, graduates, and dropouts accompanies The Student Outcomes Questionnaires developed by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. Student outcomes are defined as the results or consequences of a student's enrollment in a post secondary educational program. The Student Outcomes…

Characteristics of Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) programs in New York State which relate to the achievement of their graduates on the State Board Test Pool Examination (SBTPE) were identified. A questionnaire was designed and mailed to all two-year colleges in the states offering the ADN. A total of 32 questionnaires were returned (91 percent).…

WHITE PLAINS'S SCHOOL RACIAL BALANCE PLAN, IMPLEMENTED IN 1964 IN A CITY DISTRICT OF 8700 PUPILS, 17 PERCENT OF WHOM ARE NEGRO, IS STATISTICALLY ANALYZED AND EVALUATED IN THIS REPORT. TO ASSESS CHILDREN'S ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES FROM WHITE FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS WHO WERE IN THE THIRD GRADE OF THE INTEGRATED RECEIVING SCHOOLS…

Attempts to develop a methodology for assessing variations in social motives utilizing sets of alternative outcomes to self and others that would be both important and relevant to students enrolled in a class, and to use both the methodology and findings for the didactic purpose of illustrating the variety and importance of various social…

Designed to ascertain whether advanced students could apply language skills acquired through a minimum of three years of study to a practical purpose such as an academic subject, this report describes and evaluates a 2-year research project involving the teaching of history in French or Spanish in a number of Virginia high schools. Following a…

The purposes of this study were to determine the extent to which NCME members agreed with selected issues in educational measurement as presented on a questionnaire and to determine the degree of agreement among NCME members on the selected issues. (Author)

This report presents data gathered during the 1973-74 school year on the Austin Independent School District (Austin, Texas) implementation of the Individually Guided Education Program (IGE). Classroom observation indicates on the whole that the 11 schools identified as IGE exhibit greater degrees of implementation of characteristics associated…