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Miller, Martin G.; Borich, Timothy O. – 1982
A sample of 214 rural citizens in Iowa's Crawford and Ida Counties were surveyed to gather information on community attitudes towards the care of children and other family members. The sampled group closely paralleled the area's 1980 census norms, except in the proportion of males to females. Respondents perceived community problems with…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Community Attitudes, Community Programs
Randhawa, Bikkar S.; Van Hesteren, Frank – 1983
The development of a modified semantic differential measure of school-related attitudes of grades 3-6 children is described and its validation involving 99 children is reported. Each of the four scales of this measure, Attitude Toward-School, -Language Arts, -Teachers, and -Arithmetic, was found to be unidimensional. Internal consistency estimates…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Measures, Correlation, Elementary Education
Burkett, Linda Padou – 1985
A college class on the family relationship patterns of some American minority groups was structured to foster attitude change as well as acquisition of information. As a teaching tool, a semantic differential was developed and administered before and after the course. In this particular class, many students found their views of Black and Chicano…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Bias, Cultural Differences
Soares, Louise M.; Soares, Anthony T. – 1981
In order to dimensionalize further the construct of self concept through within-network nomological research, nine different self-scales descriptive of academic settings were administered to students in grades 1-12, their peers, and their teachers. The subjects were administered the Affective Perception Inventory (API), which measures nine…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discriminant Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Structure
Fox, Ronald B.; And Others – 1978
A total of 1657 sixth grade pupils in 53 randomly integrated tri-ethnic classes, and their teachers, participated in a 1-year longitudinal study investigating the effects of peer-rated coping and teacher classroom structure on achievement. The subjects were given initial achievement and peer-rated general coping measures and a post achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Classroom Environment, Coping
Download full textSummers, Edward G. – 1976
The purpose of this review is to report an analysis of recent research related to measurement of attitudes in reading. It is based on a search of the literature published primarily since the late 1960's. The emphasis is on research related to attitudinal measuring tools rather than the results of research utilizing such tools. The review is…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Bibliographies
Carr, Maxine; Manning, Patricia – 1973
This experiment investigated two problems: Can attitudes be affected as a result of simulation games in a classroom setting? Can these attitudinal changes, or lack thereof, be statistically assessed. The two purposes of the study were: (1) Exposure and involvement of under-graduate education students to basic options and decisions presented to…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Class Activities, College Students, Education Majors
Horowitz, Joseph L.; And Others – 1972
The measurement of racial attitudes in contemporary America is presented with some serious methodological obstacles. In an attempt to eliminate these obstacles, Sedlacek and Brooks developed the Situational Attitude Scale (SAS) to measure the attitudes of whites toward blacks. It includes two Forms, A and B. The effects of the same individual…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Freshmen, Racial Attitudes, Racial Relations
Peer reviewedMonographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1981
A three-year longitudinal study was conducted to measure two aspects of adolescents' self-concept development: continuity/discontinuity and stability/instability. Results indicated that adolescent self-concept results from continuous growth based on social circumstances and cognitive skills and competencies. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Elementary School Students
King, Simon T. – 1986
A study assessed the effect of American/Western culture on English-speaking Japanese bilinguals as reflected in differences in the connotative meanings of certain kinds of words. Differences in culturally determined meanings were examined in translation-equivalent concrete concepts, abstract words, and personality attributes, as measured on a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Correlation
Lucht, Angelin S.; And Others – 1981
The Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire (SBDQ), Form 2, is a modified semantic differential scale using five pairs of bipolar adjectives to describe supervisory behavior. Form 2 of the instrument was field tested to determine which supervisory behaviors 60 graduate students in education perceived as satisfying or motivating. These…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Field Tests, Measurement Techniques
Castle, David – 1965
The purpose of this study was to measure the degree of behavioral change in terms of some aspects of the psychological self resulting from participation training of groups from two churches. Attempt is made to describe and measure the process of growth in terms of a process model categorized into awareness, acceptance, and affirmation. Content…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Church Programs, Conflict, Doctoral Dissertations
Sullivan, Arthur P. – 1978
Sullivan's Ethical Reasoning Scale contains three dilemmas with response pairs representing Kohlberg's stages of moral development. In Kohlberg's first three stages, goodness is equated with lack of punishment, usefulness, and approval, respectively. Good is seen as conformity to rule and ruler in stage four, and stage five comprises…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Attitude Measures, Conflict Resolution
Oen, Urban T. – 1973
This interim report was abstracted from the many research efforts conducted at Fox Valley Technical Institute and the Center for Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education, Univ. of Wis Stout. At Fox Valley, it was attempted to identify learning styles relevant to vocational-technical education, survey students and faculty concerning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Educational Research, Individualized Instruction, Learning
Middleton, M. A. – 1975
This report surveys the opinions of parents, students, teachers and a few administrators regarding various aspects of the Family Life Education program at Eric Hamber Secondary School in Vancouver, British Columbia. The results indicate that parents and students were generally in favor of the content of the course but would like to see family…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Course Evaluation, Educational Objectives
