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Download full textCrooks, Lois A., Ed. – 1972
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…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Conference Reports, Correlation, Criterion Referenced Tests
Peer reviewedLefkowitz, Joel; Fox, Harvey – Personnel Psychology, 1975
The authors of "Differential Validity: Ethnic Group as a Moderator in Predicting Job Performance" (EJ 100 533) replied to criticism of their article by Wayne K. Kirchner (AA 521 804). (RK)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Definitions, Educational Objectives, Ethnic Groups
Peer reviewedWilson, Brian G. – Business Education Forum, 1976
In developing two course/instructor evaluation instruments, four areas were considered by the appointed committee: determining the criteria to be evaluated, designing the forms, writing implementation instructions, and assessing faculty participation in the use of forms. The resulting instruments are presented. (BP)
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
Peer reviewedRedd, William H.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1975
Studied the effects of positive and negative interaction on the performance of preschool and elementary school children and their preferences for the adults associated with each type of interaction. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Adults, Elementary School Students, Extinction (Psychology), Interaction Process Analysis
Peer reviewedEtaugh, Claire F.; Pope, Barbara K. – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedTurnbull, Ann Patterson – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Exceptional Child Research, Memory
Peer reviewedAnd Others; Karen, Robert L. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedBart, William M.; Airasian, Peter W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Item Analysis
Peer reviewedRubin, Kenneth H.; Orr, R. Robert – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Intelligence Quotient, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedOdom, Penelope B. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Decision Making, Dimensional Preference, Elementary School Students
School Shop, 1974
A survey was initiated to determine how well newly hired drafting technicians were doing at their jobs and to identify areas in need of improvement. (BP)
Descriptors: Drafting, Employment Qualifications, Job Training, Labor Needs
McKenna, Michael C. – 1977
This paper reports on a computer simulation of cloze retrieval tasks. It first outlines the ideas that were assembled and translated into the model used to compose the simulation and describes the method used in developing the simulation. It then reports on a comparison of the time required by a computer and by human subjects in responding to…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computer Programs, Computers, Information Retrieval
Fyans, Leslie J., Jr. – 1975
This study examined the influence of an individual's attributions upon the type of tasks that individuals would select. Questions guiding this study concerned the predictability (congruence) of tasks from attributions, the consistency of this task-attribution congruency, and the generalizability of the results. Subjects were 801 students drawn…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Habit Formation, Individual Psychology
Fouts, Gregory T. – 1977
Boys and girls (10-11 years) responded in a speed task faster in the presence than absence of an audience. Children were faster with the same-than opposite-sexed audiences. The results were discussed in terms of same-sex competitive motives, sex-stereotypes, and opposite-sex distractability. (Author)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Audiences, Behavioral Science Research, Children
Peer reviewedEhri, Linnea C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Superior lexical awareness among readers is attributed to their experience with the printed correlates of spoken language. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Prereading Experience, Preschool Children, Primary Education
