This study investigated the perceptions of middle school principals' immediate superordinates regarding the principal's proper functions and sought to determine if those perceptions were significantly affected by differences in geographic location, sex, age, or administrative background among superordinates. Data were gathered through a…

Three teacher selection procedures used by a large urban school district were investigated. The relationships of certain biographical data to scores on the National Teacher Examination (NTE), an interview rating, and an experimental Experience Profile Questionnaire were examined. The final selection of teachers for the district was based on a…

Dimensions of scientific literacy with regard to a theoretical definition were inferred for a group of science oriented persons, a group of nonscience oriented persons, and the two groups combined. Comparisons of the strength of agreement of the two groups, and of subgroups of the two groups, with the inferred dimensions were made. The sample…

Five category scores of word usage frequency were generated from responses on the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blanks for 61 college freshmen. These scores were then used to predict asocial behavior of the freshman. (Author/JKS)

A job involvement measure was altered to reflect academic involvement and was employed as a predictor of academic performance. Contrary to the findings of prior industrial research, involvement was found to be correlated neither with age nor with course satisfaction; however, it did prove an efficacious predictor of course grade. (Author/JKS)

Estimates were obtained of the effects of ethnic group, sex, education, and clinical diagnosis on WAIS IQ scores of psychiatric patients. Expected IQ scores for segments of the general population were calculated by adding or subtracting these effects from an expected IQ for a White high school graduate. (Author/SJL)

Observed sex differences in job satisfaction were hypothesized to actually be due to variables which covary with sex. State employees provided data. Significant differences in satisfaction "washed out" when effects such as age, education, and tenure, were controlled; but the hypothesis was only partially supported. (Author/SJL)

The role of maternal behavior and family constellation factors as predictors of social competence was investigated with 17 learning disabled children (mean age 10 years) and their mothers. Journal availability: see EC 112 927. (DLS)

The effectiveness of engineering and policy interventions in reducing bicycle accidents on the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara was investigated. None of the bikeway modifications were found to have been effective in reducing bicycle accidents. (Author/GDC)

Describes an investigation into the effect of certain selected variables upon the self-esteem of 157 student teachers at the Faculty of Education, the University of Birmingham. Subjects were administered two specially constructed questionnaires to measure their self-esteem, the Eysenck Personality Inventory, and a third questionnaire to elicit…

Study investigated efficacy of predicting academic achievement as measured by the WRAT, using Verbal and Performance scores of WISC-R as predictors. Both tests were given to 155 children referred for psychological evaluations. Performance IQ did not significantly predict academic achievement, and Verbal IQ significantly predicted only Reading and…

Second- and third-graders (N=94) from a suburban New Jersey school who had taken the Boehm test of Basic Concepts as kindergartners were given the Stanford Achievement Test, Form W. The obtained grade scores in each subject area were then correlated with the Boehm Test scores. (Author)

The ability of an environmental process measure and socioeconomic status (SES) measures to predict Stanford-Binet IQ at 3 years of age was compared in a separate analysis by sex and race. The environmental process measure predicted IQ as well as a combination of process and status measures, and was superior to SES measures alone. (Author/CP)

High cognitive processing capacity (CPC) students were superior to low-CPC students in prose learning. Of the four learning modes--programmed instruction (PI), control, chunking study outline, and adjunct questions--PI was the most effective. Substantial CPC and performance correlations and poor long-term retention suggested that PI was not best…