The specific purposes of this study were to identify new and unique dimensions of teaching and to identify the commonalities of several existing classroom observation systems. The objectives or anticipated outcomes were to: (a) increase interpretation and cross validation of research using different observation systems and more efficient…

This study of factors used by graduate faculty in their evaluation of graduate students had as its goal the development of a research-based conceptual framework of desired outcomes in graduate education. Factor analysis of the responses of 190 graduate faculty at Kansas State University, Manhattan, to a graduate student performance checklist…

On the basis of an anthropological descriptive study of 16 schools and a study of the high innovative schools compared with low innovative schools, an interaction hypothesis was formulated. The hypothesis included theoretical constructs of system innovative thrust, personnel innovative thrust, and selected educational change. In this paper, these…

Items from the Laurelton Self Concept Scale (LSCS) and the Locus of Control Scale for Children were administered to 172 male and female educable mental retardates to examine the LSCS by R factor analysis. It was found that the Self Concept Scale is factor analyzable when appropriately administered to educables. The small factors grouped into…

This study tested 60 children, 5 to 8 years old, on a variety of mental, moral, social, creative and cognitive tasks to determine the interrelatedness of those variables and their relationships to the intellectual process of decentration. The subjects were observed while attending a summer program prior to entering grades one through three.…

This paper reports the development of a self-report inventory for measuring work-relevant attitudes. A pool of 72 items was created after a review of the research literature. These items were administered to 89 out-of-school Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees in Cincinnati and to 78 New Careers enrollees in Durham. Performance ratings were…

A variety of path models involving unmeasured variables are formulated in terms of Joreskog's general model for the analysis of covariance structures. (Author)

This memorandum is the manual for the VARAN (VARiance ANalysis) program, which is the latest addition to a series of computer programs for multivariate analysis of variance. As with earlier programs, analysis of variance, univariate and multivariate, is the main target of the program. Correlation analysis of all types is available with printout in…

A random sample of 225 grade one children were given the Canadian Cognitive Abilities Test (CCAT) on two occasions within seven months. During the second administration the WISC was also administered. KR-20 reliabilities of the CCAT for the two administrations were respectively .83 and .74. The test-retest reliability was .75. The correlation…

The purposes of the present investigation was to factor analyze the results of the administration of the Purdue Elementary Problem Solving Inventory to 361 second-graders. The Inventory was designed to assess twelve distinct skills involved in human problem solving. Tetrachoric intercorrelations were generated from the item scores and a principal…

Factor loadings, used directly or as the basis of binary values, are not appropriate as weights to produce component scores from a rotated solution. A series of examples showing the results of an incorrect measurement of components is given. Several correlation matrices were taken from books on factor analysis and multivariate analysis. Each…

A very general model for the computation of independent cluster solutions in factor analysis is presented. The model is discussed as being either orthogonal or oblique. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that for every orthogonal independent cluster solution there is an oblique analog. Using three illustrative examples, certain generalities are made…

This thesis provides evidence for the existence of a creativity dimension containing figural and verbal subfactors which is independent of intelligence and marginally related to school achievement. The original data of Wallach and Kogan, as well as the data from the Ward, Cropley and Maslany and Wallach and Wing studies were reanalyzed using…

A factor analysis was performed on an intercorrelation matrix of reported drug usage frequencies for seven drug categories at two consecutive periods of time. Subjects were 1,010 Army Vietnam veterans in pay grade E6 or below, aged 26 years or less. Retrospective reporting identified drug usage prior to a tour of Vietnam and during the tour. Four…

Three techniques for assessing the adequacy of correlation matrices for factor analysis were applied to four examples from the literature. The methods compared were: (1) inspection of the off diagonal elements of the anti-image covariance matrix S(to the 2nd) R(to the -1) and S(to the 2nd); (2) the Measure of Sampling Adequacy (M.S.A.), and (3)…