Typewriting students were given a pretest, prescriptive exercises, and a posttest. After reading, analyzing, and typing a variety of materials on the capabilities of the handicapped, students were more positive in their attitude that disabled persons can be satisfactory employees. (Author/ SK)

University females were classified into three groups according to their sexual and contraceptive experience, and viewed a birth control film. Perceived change measures appeared sensitive to aspects of change, particularly attitude reinforcement, which were not measured by computed change. (Author/BW)

An 18-week course on death and dying designed specifically for high school students significantly reduced participants' level of death anxiety. These results conflict with previous research on adolescents in which either increased anxiety or no significant differences in death anxiety were reported as a result of death education. (CM)

The present study investigated the stability of response intransitivity in the method of paired comparisons over a two-year period. Intransitivity scores obtained from two administrations of the Minnesota Importance Questionnaire were correlated to determine stability. Results provided support for the linear relationship between the two measures.…

Describing results of a field-based program for an entry level course in teacher education, this article indicates six of seven teacher education classes made gains (measured via pre- and post-testing with the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory) at the .001 level and one class made gains at the .05 level. (JC)

This study surveyed undergraduates (27 men, 83 women) to investigate gender differences in mental rotation. It compared pretesting on the Vandenberg Test of Mental Rotation (VTMR) and posttesting after two sessions of computer games. Men typically scored higher on pretest VTMR. After playing a game requiring mental rotation of figures, women…

How the validity of gain scores varies with the standard deviations of pretest and posttest scores and the correlation between the two are analyzed. Earlier findings that under realistic testing conditions difference scores can have excellent predictive value are supported. Conditions under which gain scores have optimum validity are specified.…

Discussion of computer programming and knowledge-based instruction focuses on three studies of elementary and secondary school students which show that five particular problem-solving strategies can be developed in students explicitly taught the strategies and given practice applying them to solve LOGO programming problems. (Contains 53…

The use of multiple regression for analyzing data from the regression-discontinuity design (RDD) is examined, considering the effects of random measurement error in the pretest, treatment-effect interactions, and curvilinearity in the regression analysis of RDD. Three sets of conditions of increasing generality are reviewed. (SLD)

The literature on evaluation of employee involvement (EI) programs is reviewed, and five evaluation models and other procedures to increase EI usefulness to organizations are discussed. Better designed studies should include some form of preevaluation and postevaluation measures and should use more than one evaluation model. (SLD)

Investigates whether an English and spelling pretest administered to business communication students helped teachers evaluate the language arts skills or deficiencies of their students. Finds that the test is a good predictor of performance ability in business communication and that the pretest and posttest scores help teachers and students to…

Pre/posttest data on 40 physicians who completed problem-based clinical scenarios on osteoporosis revealed that 39 showed improvement or modest change in postworkshop scores, especially in terms of management of male patients, determination of risk factors, and use and interpretation of bone density tests. (SK)

Investigated whether there is a significant difference in the rate of gain in test scores between students who use an integrated learning system (ILS) and students who do not. Nine dependent variables from the Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress examination for third grade students provided the data. (Contains 23 references.)…

Tests the effectiveness of written recasts versus models in the acquisition of the aspectual distinction between two past tenses in French, the "passe compose" and the "imparfait" with a pretest, repeated exposure, and posttest design. (Author/VWL)

Outlines some nonrandomized constructed comparison strategies that can be used to evaluate interventions for children and illustrates their use for outcome variables that would be expected to change over age if no treatment were given. The proposed strategy consists of determining an expected age function for the dependent variable using pretest…