In this study, a pencil paper performance test (PPPT) was developed and administered to an experimental group of 46 students and a control group of 48 students to determine: (1) the difference between laboratory performance and the successful completion of a laboratory course in electricity, (2) the relationship between laboratory performance as…

The relative effectiveness of alternative reward structures in strengthening group performance on a cooperative math task was investigated by operationalizing four reward structure treatments--one non-contingent pay treatment and three differential pay allocation treatments including two levels of inter-group competition and a group piece-rate pay…

The article describes a research project which tried to determine if dogmatic students take less than average time to study non-complex tests, and if they do, whether this is because of a "know-it-all" attitude or to avoid decision-making anxiety. (CD)

The author presents a synthesized typology of leader behavior. The behavior typology is built on the dimensions of task orientation, relationship orientation, and leader effectiveness. There are eight resulting leader types: more effective-high relationship orientation-high task orientation to less effective-low relationship orientation-low task…

A chart of the major action points in the course of developing tests for training evaluation and for qualifying trainees provides a framework for discussing the problems and practices of test development. Performance standards are the most common sources of trouble; the test developer must have unequivocal standards to work from. (AJ)

Research combined an experimental analysis of the cue properties of evaluative comments with a naturalistic account of the functions that such events serve in everyday interchanges. (Authors)

Study compares the effects of different conditions which imply reversibility on children's judgments of conservation of quantity. (Authors)