Explores the perceptions that secular faculty have of clergy as students, using semantic differential technique to compare the differences in faculty perceptions of "typical clergy,""typical non-clergy," and "ideal" counseling students. (Author)

Research supported by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. 1

Seven computer programs were written for use with the semantic differential and two additional programs were modified or expanded. The nine programs can compute the following: means, standard deviations, and standard errors on nine subscales and on evaluation, potency, and activity factors (EPA); Osgood D values for all concepts; correlations…

The Conference Role Semantic Differential (CRSD) is a behavior rating scale for evaluation of individual staff member behavior in a conference. Part 1 of the 12 item draft and the 15 item revised version contains personal behavior characteristics to be rated along a seven point continuum. Part 2 contains two open-ended questions asking what is…

This study attempted to relate the development of attitudes toward educational research with two variables in training: institutional setting and courses usually related to research training. The study compared the attitudes toward research between a) university and college faculty members, b) full-time and part-time graduate students, c)…

Subjects compared pairs of nonconcrete and "nonimageable" words along a dimension which has no physical analog--the evaluative dimension of the semantic differential. Their reaction time to do so was an inverse logarithmic function of the difference between the numerical "goodness' values they had assigned to the words. (Author/RM)

A semantic differential instrument was devised to predict success of counselor-trainees in a practicum course. The instrument was not useful in predicting success. (Author/JKS)

Research on the semantic differential technique has provided evidence for variance in Osgood's formulation of dimensions of connotative meaning. Retest data based on Piotrowski's original sample is reported. Results indicate support for stability and consistency of the Evaluation dimension. Moderate consistency was found in scales comprising the…

In the present paper, the selection of scales and concepts and the format for administration are discussed in terms of an underlying linear model. (Editor)

In this study a test of vocational choice was developed and field tested for construct validity. (Authors)

Several alternative solutions are offered to problem posed in AA 513 150. (MB)

Copies of the program in FORTRAN IV with descriptive comments and sample data as run on the CDC 6400 are available on request from George H. Golden, Jr., Computer Center, State University College, Fredonia, New York 14063. (Authors)

Exposing subjects to pleasant and unpleasant pictures and odors separately and simultaneously, evaluative meanings were compared and correlations were derived. Very modest support was obtained for extending consistency theory to a limited case of cross-modalities." (DB)