The purposes of this study were to devise and provide validity and reliability data for scores on an instrument measuring attitudes toward school violence and to develop importance ratings of the items based on data from teachers in a high school that had experienced a highly publicized violent episode. Two independent samples were used. Based on…

This journal publishes articles that focus on the results of applied educational research, scholarly reviews of research, descriptions of classroom techniques, studies of assessments, and other topics of interest to educational researchers. Issue number 1 of Volume 6 contains these articles: (1) "'More than Having a Vision': The Emergence of…

Home-environmental processes, socioeconomic indicators, and family structure measures were canonically correlated with four mental abilities of 185, 11-year-old boys. Verbal and number abilities were the most predictable, with the process measures contributing the most to prediction. (DP)

Support for the view that the attribution of physical and psychological causation have different bases and sources of origin is evident in this study. Using a factor-analysis technique the researcher investigates a child's causal reasoning about personal and physical situations. (SM)

Position adopted in this study was that the underlying structure of what has been thought of as the masculinity-femininity variable is multidimensional, that a more valid description of MF would thus reveal a pattern and not a score. (Authors)

Students' opinions about their college environments are related to objectively determined features of their academic community; also to the actual measured changes which take place in these students on three year courses, shown by examination results, attitude and personality changes, values of a personal, social and religious kind. (Author)

It was hypothesized that verbal ability becomes increasingly differentiated from other abilities such as numerical, spatial, and perceptual, and increasingly specific and similar in structure to the ability of groups with more learning experience. (Author)

The findings in the present study show that an understanding of subject matter tends to be more important than the forms which academic interrogation may take. Hence a solution to the problem of cultural bias seems to relate to remedial academic skills. (Author)

This investigation utilized role theory as a model for research into social studies curriculum through the identification of dimensions of teacher expectation and student behaviors. (Authors)

Evaluation of the Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception found that it measured a single general factor of perceptual organization which was weakly related to IQ and unrelated to reading ability. (KW)

Purpose of the present study was the development of two research instruments designed to assess young children's functioning in preschool settings. (Authors)

Assistance in this study was provided by the Testing and Certification Division of the English Language Institute. (VM)

Scales are developed to replace the difficult to administer and score Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) affiliation scales. Functional relationships between such variables as affiliative behavior, conformity behavior, and dependency and affiliative tendency and sensitivity to rejection are educed. (DG)