The one parameter latent trait theory of Georg Rasch has two assumptions: that student abilities can be measured on an equal interval scale, and that the success of a student with a given item is a function of student achievement and item difficulty. The grade four Michigan Educational Assessment Program reading test was designed to measure…

The relationship of student locus of control (SLOC) to six achievement measures and a number of student characteristics measured in a study of student performance in a reading tutorial program was examined. Subjects were 121 elementary and junior high students, individually tutored two hours daily by high school and college students and adults.…

Elementary and secondary school counselors in Nebraska were assessed in terms of their views on the need to be able to perform certain professional and job-related responsibilities and the adequacy of their college preparation to prepare them to meet those responsibilities. A survey instrument, based on a needs assessment model, was developed to…

The amount of print that 42 college students apprehended in 40 millisecond tachistoscopic flash presentations was monitored for strings of random letters, unrelated words, and words in context (sentences). The results indicated that mean apprehension spans per flash were 3.7 letters for random letters, 9.3 letters (2.0 words) for unrelated words,…

This monograph contains seminar papers concerning educational policy issues presented in Nebraska from 1972-1978. In the papers, recognized educational experts in the state react to substantive issues and follow up with a current status report. The issues discussed include networking to develop policy, accountability, federal involvement,…

This summary of the decisions and recommendations of the Planning Conference for Solar Technology Information Transfer includes a brief discussion of the outline of a functioning solar energy technology network in the State of Mississippi. During the conference, participants recognized current energy information needs and recommended ways to meet…

Examined are the health effects of law concentrations of the radioactive isotope Radium-226 in drinking water. Contents include discussions of the physical properties of radium, biological and metabolic effects, health effects of exposure to Radium-226, and populations at risk. Appendices provide more technical information including equations,…

The report presents recommendations from a November, 1978 national conference on child abuse. It is explained that groups of invited representatives from government, social service and public interest groups, the media, and the academic community discussed policies for treatment and prevention of child abuse. Summarized are recommendations on the…

This report of a conference cosponsored by the National Rehabilitation Information Center and the Clearinghouse on the Handicapped provides background on the need for a network system to make effective use of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) funded information services, defines and explains networking concepts and terminology, and…

Eighty-six papers presented at the 17th Annual Association for Educational Data Systems convention cover the educational application of computers in the following areas: computer assisted instruction, instructional and learning processes, computer-related curriculum, educational administration, computer resources, and data-center administration.…

This paper reports on the Virginia Conference on Lower Division Mathematics held on April 21, 1978 in Richmond, Virginia. It was sponsored by the Maryland-District of Columbia-Virginia Section of the Mathematical Association of America in conjuction with the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. The purpose of the conference was to…

This study was presented at the 1979 meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA), San Francisco. It investigated the relationship between the structure of simple addition and subtraction problems and the types of processes children use to solve them prior to receiving formal arithmetic instruction. Specific strategies which young…

Generalizability theory was applied to the Matching Familiar Figures Test (MFF), an instrument commonly employed to assess reflection-impulsivity in children, in order to analyze the dependability of the MFF at four grade levels: second, third, fourth, and fifth. The MFF was individually administered to 114 boys. A completely crossed, two-facet…

This report outlines the activities of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) in four areas: (1) Discovery (finding the talented); (2) Description (further study of the ablest of them); (3) Development (helping the talent-search participants educationally); and (4) Dissemination (helping others use SMPY's principles, practices, and…

Charles Spearman originally suggested in 1927 that the varying magnitudes of the mean differences between whites and blacks in standardized scores on a variety of mental tests are directly related to the size of the tests' loadings on g, the general factor common to all complex tests of mental ability. Several independent large-scale studies…