A factor analysis of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) battery was undertaken to gain a better understanding of the specific abilities which contribute to performance on the tests. To determine whether greater amounts of testing time should be allocated to groups of items defined by the factor analysis, a validity study was conducted. Existing…

This paper describes a study that developed and tested a research measure for investigating the concerns of teachers at different stages in the adoption of educational innovations. Through a review of the literature, the staff of the Procedures for Adopting Educational Innovations project identified seven different stages of teacher concern about…

The optimum weighting of variables to predict a dependent-criterion variable is an important problem in nearly all of the social and natural sciences. Although the predominant method, multiple regression analysis (MR), yields optimum weights for the sample at hand, these weights are not generally optimum in the population from which the sample was…

A method of analysis is developed which accounts for whatever variance is present in the responses to test items, additive, configural or the two combined. The method is applied to successive column matrices which report frequencies or endorsements by categories of subjects to answer alternative sets of test items. Approaches are included which…

Three self-report personality inventories were administered to a sample of 148 rehabilitation clients. Seven factor-analysis-derived dimensions of personality functioning were correlated with the criterion of successful case closure. Only one of the correlations approached statistical significance, leading to the conclusion that client-reported…

Demonstrates the existence of six factors of social intelligence dealing with understanding other people's thoughts, feelings, and intentions. Called factors of "behavioral cognition", they refer only to the abilities to cognize or understand behavior and not to other abilities which might more broadly and inclusively be termed…

Linkages between the abilities and personality domains are explicated from the results of a study, in which cross-domain correlations between 20 ability variables and 14 personality traits were obtained and factor analyzed from a sample of adolescent males. (Author/CTM)

The WISC-R scores for groups of children identified by school personnel as needing special education services were factor analyzed according to type of classification. Overall, results show the WISC-R to be factorially similar for all groups. (Author)

Longitudinal data on six eye-hand coordination tasks for 25 children aged five and one-half through eight and one-half years were factor analyzed in terms of functional and structural cognitive orientation. (Author)

Assesses the construct validity of the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory using a variation of Thurstone's Orthogonal Rotation technique. Also attempted to obtain data on the sources of self-esteem which contribute to global self-esteem. It was hoped that data would reflect the comparative importance of the home, peers, and the school to the global…

Employed the Personal Health Survey (PHS) to study patterns of symptomology related to physical and mental health in a population of 730 Ss, which consisted of five groups: felons, hospitalized alcoholics, unmarried mothers, college students and institutionalized schizophrenics. (Editor)

Reports on a series of methodological refinements used in developing a systematic rationale for the construction, standardization and interpretation of the Personal Health Survey (PHS), a 200-item questionnaire designed to screen pathological functioning in the psychophysiological support systems that underlie physical and mental health. The PHS…

In maximum likelihood factor analysis, there arises a situation whereby improper solutions occur. The causes of those improper solution are discussed and illustrated. (JKS)

Four factor scores from the Bem Sex Role Inventory were derived from a factor analysis of college student responses and were compared with the original scales on a new sample of students. The factor scales were more internally consistent than those constructed by Bem. (Author/CTM)

Factors that supervisors consider important to their jobs were analyzed from a series of surveys with more than 300 supervisors over a three-year period. Results show some regional differences and attitude changes, but interesting work was consistently rated most important to the supervisors. (MF)