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Dockrell, W. B. – 1987
With the advent of profiling and maintaining records of achievement, the assessment of the affective characteristics of pupils has become an issue of general concern in England. The Scottish Council for Research in Education has been involved in programs investigating the assessment of individuals and the evaluation of curricula. Teachers can…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Measures, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
McLarty, Joyce R.; Rakow, Ernest – 1986
This paper explores the functioning of the low-inference observation system used as part of the Tennessee Career Ladder evaluation system, which provides teachers with the opportunity to qualify for additional pay on the basis of outstanding performance. The analysis of the functioning of this form is intended to provide the basis for the ongoing…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Classroom Observation Techniques, Correlation, Effect Size
Powell, Jack L.; Brand, Alice G. – 1986
The Brand Emotions Scale for Writers (BSEW) is a 20-item scale designed to measure the emotions of writers; (1) immediately before writing (state-before), (2) immediately after writing (state-after), and (3) when writing in general (trait). This paper describes the development of BSEW and the factor structure of these three different forms. Common…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Authors, Behavior Rating Scales, Factor Structure
Mayton, Daniel M., II – 1986
Measures of adults' attitudes toward nuclear war are briefly discussed, and Mayton's Modified World Affairs Questionnaire (MWAQ) is described. The 23-item MWAQ was developed from Novak and Lerner's World Affairs Questionnaire, a nuclear war attitude measure by Mayton and Delamater, and related interview items by Jeffries. When the MWAQ was…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Correlation, Factor Structure
Yarnold, Paul R.; And Others – 1985
This paper reports on a short version of the Student Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS), a multiple choice questionnaire that measures Type A "coronary-prone" behavior in assessing subjects' A/B types. The primary objective was to determine if the short and long forms of the student JAS represent similar measurement instruments. A secondary…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, College Students, Comparative Testing, Factor Analysis
Ability Test Performance and Test Validity Difference among Sex and Ethnic Groups. Technical Report.
Sung, Yong H.; And Others – 1982
This study assessed level and structure differences across sex and ethnic groups on a newly developed multiple aptitude battery, called the Ball Aptitude Battery (BAB), and established and examined the concurrent and differential validities of the battery relative to different groups. The 17 Ball ability variables are: clerical test; idea fluency;…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Factor Analysis
Salkind, F. Jane; And Others – 1987
Registered nurses, interns, and residents from five hospitals in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey were administered the Maslach Human Services Survey, Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale, Rotter's Locus of Control Scale, Newman's Alpha Omega Scale, and a demographic questionnaire. Results strongly suggested that an individual with high self-esteem and…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Burnout, Coping, Death
Bhushan, Vidya – 1985
The relationship between a teacher's attitude and the environment of his or her class was examined. The research was designed to determine the effects of the learning environment on the academic achievements of students. This research measured teacher attitudes with the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI). Students' perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Classroom Environment, Educational Environment
Davis, Richard W. – 1977
A method for statistical analysis of semantic differential data in educational evaluation is discussed. Estimated scores for unobserved affective variables are obtained using the canonical factor regression method. This method overcomes previous prolems of bias and inefficiency in computing composite affective indices. In an application of the…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Measures, Course Evaluation, Factor Analysis
Marsh, Herbert W.; And Others – 1981
The Self Description Questionnaire (SDQ) is a multidimensional instrument designed to measure seven facets of self-concept hypothesized in Shavelson's hierarchical model. The SDQ, along with measures of attributions and academic achievement, was administered to primary school students from two quite diverse populations. Separate factor analyses of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades
Cleminshaw, Helen; Guidubaldi, John – 1980
Although actual or projected satisfaction with parenting is important in determining whether a couple will become parents and how large their family will be, only minimal research has assessed parental satisfaction. The Cleminshaw-Guidubaldi Parent Satisfaction Scale, a 50-item Likert-type instrument designed to measure components of satisfaction…
Descriptors: Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Donlon, Thomas F.; Widiger, Thomas A. – 1978
The historical development and recent applications are described of the picture sequencing format (PSF), a testing device which requires the subject to designate a complete and correct order for a set of related pictures. The earliest use was by Decroly in 1914 and perhaps the best known use is in the Wechsler intelligence tests. Special…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Culture Fair Tests
Walsh, James A.; And Others – 1979
An attempt was made to examine authoritarian and non-authoritarian scales of social attitudes and their reversals as a function of: (1) content consistency; (2) acquiescence; and (3) a tendency to use extreme categories of response. The study questioned whether Adorno's fascism (F), dogmatism (D), ethnocentrism (E), and anti-Semitism (A-S) scales…
Descriptors: Adults, Anti Semitism, Authoritarianism, Dogmatism
Carroll, John B. – 1980
Fifty-five recent studies of individual differences (IDs) in elementary cognitive tasks (ECTs) are reviewed. Twenty-five data sets are examined, analyzed, or reanalyzed by factor analysis. The following promising dimensions are identified: basic perceptual processes, reaction and movement times, mental comparison and recognition tasks, retrieval…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Correlation
LUNNEBORG, CLIFFORD E.; LUNNEBORG, PATRICIA W. – 1967
A TECHNIQUE OF PATTERN ANALYSIS WHICH EMPHASIZES THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORE EFFECTIVE WAYS OF SCORING A GIVEN SET OF VARIABLES WAS FORMULATED. TO THE ORIGINAL VARIABLES WERE SUCCESSIVELY ADDED TWO, THREE, AND FOUR VARIABLE PATTERNS AND THE INCREASE IN PREDICTIVE EFFICIENCY ASSESSED. RANDOMLY SELECTED HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS WHO HAD PARTICIPATED IN THE…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations