This study was undertaken by the Asian Institute for Teacher Educators at Quezon City in the Philippines to discover current practices in assessing students in training and to determine their suitability for teaching. A questionnaire was prepared to cover four main areas: course subjects, practical teaching, co-curricular activities, and personal…

College populations may differ greatly, not only in terms of traditional academic variables such as high school grades and test performances, but also in terms of student interests, values, educational aspirations, occupational plans, and socio-economic background. The recognition of biographic variables as potential predictors of academic success…

The report (in working draft form) of the Connecticut Task Force on Evaluation of Programs for the Gifted and Talented examines evaluation issues of product, process, and presage and provides samples of nonstandardized evaluation instruments being used in 21 local Connecticut gifted programs. Product evaluation is seen to focus on student…

Describes the development of the Trait Ascription Questionnaire, which measures perceptions that people have of organizations. The descriptive adjectives are divided into eight dimensions: Ethican-Moral; Quality; Creativity-Openness to Change; Activity; Disposition; Organization; Potency; and Complexity. A breakdown of scale characteristics, mean…

Research on different personality types, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), suggests that various professions are like distinctive habitats where certain psychological characteristics flourish. This article describes the theoretical basis of MBTI studies and then outlines implications for using them to prove scientific…

This study evaluated the degree to which 102 undergraduate participants objected to questions on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) which referred to sex, religion, bladder and bowel functions, family relationships, and unusual thinking in comparision to degree of objection to length of the MMPI and repetition of questions.…

The wording and structure of questionnaire items can interact with specified sample categories based on evaluation goals and respondent characteristics. The effects of the interactions can restructure samples and introduce bias into the data analysis. These effects, and suggestions for avoiding them, are demonstrated for five types of…

The purpose of this study was to explore and investigate the ways faculty at The School of Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, obtain information to support their academic tasks. Library and Information Sciences faculty at the University of Pittsburgh were chosen as the population for this study. The study matched e-journals,…

This study employed the procedure of item sampling to reduce the time expenditure of participants when responding to a questionnaire concerned with the implementation of an innovative elementary school project. (Author)

Videotapes of two 17-month old children -- each child sometimes described as a boy and sometimes as a girl -- were shown to 85 adult middle-class subjects, who rated attributes of the children on questionnaires containing sex role items. (Authors/RY)

The effect of participation in three computer simulation exercises on performance of students enrolled in an introductory statistics class was evaluated. Results demonstrated that the students who participated in the simulation exercises attempted significantly more problems on a paper-and-pencil test with greater success than did those who did…

Reports on study which investigated Black and White adolescents' political revenge attitudes, attempted to establish the concurrent validity of a political revenge measure, and tested a model of political revenge antecedents. (MK)

Investigated the relationship of family structure to psychosocial health in "healthy" and "normal" male adolescents. Families of healthy subjects had significantly more effective parental coalitions and generational boundaries. Suggests the importance of marital transactions for establishing parental coalitions and generational boundaries. (Author)