The relationships between scores on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, the Brown Personal Beliefs and Teaching Practices Inventories, and the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale for 191 female, beginning teacher education students were investigated using canonical and simple correlation analyses. (Author/GDC)

Reading and mathematics test data from hearing impaired students 8 to 20 years old were examined in relation to five personal student characteristics (age, severity of hearing loss, age at onset, gender, additional educational handicaps) as well as three potentially manipulatable ones (hearing aid use, communication method, educational setting).…

Intercorrelations among overall clinical performance ratings, examination scores, and overall grade-point average were computed for a graduating class of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine to increase understanding of cognitive and noncognitive attributes of clinical performance. (Author/JMD)

A study of 233 children with developmental disorders and mental illness found that the most common psychiatric diagnoses were oppositional defiant disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Pica, organic mental disorder, and autism were more often encountered in low functioning individuals, while depressive and speech/language…

Several measures of psychopathology were administered to 111 psychiatric inpatients (ages 13 to 17) including 46 patients who reported sexually abusive experiences. None of the scales was correlated with sexual abuse in either sex, and a history of physical abuse was the only characteristic that significantly correlated with sexual abuse for both…

Describes a study of secondary school students in the Netherlands that compared the use of paper and pencil or computer spreadsheets to solve correlational problems in geography. Discusses results of videotape transcripts that compared teacher and student behaviors and considered mechanisms through which computers contribute to learning.…

Discussion of assessment in higher education focuses on a case study of undergraduates in Taiwan that uses a networked system to assess the correlation coefficients between self, peer, and instructor assessment in a long-term fashion and to compare the mean values of markings between peer-self, instructor-self, and peer-instructor assessment. (LRW)

Describes a study that investigated the integration of distance education technologies into a preservice teachers' science methodology course. Highlights include a theoretical framework; effects of prior technology courses; effects of participation on student attitudes regarding the use of distance education technology; and correlations between…

Presents a study conducted at the Hellenic Open University that focused on higher education offered by methods of distance learning, including the use of computers and other technology, and investigated causes of student dropouts and dropout rates. Highlights include student characteristics, including age and gender; and correlations between…

Describes results of a citation analysis of library and information science journals that was conducted to identify factors associated with subjective rankings of a journal's value in promotion and tenure decisions. Discussion covers citation measures used; hypotheses tested; and correlations between prestige rankings--from a survey of research…

This study determined the degree to which the use of alcohol by junior and senior high school students (N=6,526) resulted in problems with friends, teachers, principals, police, parents or family, and adults in the neighborhood. (IAH)

Data from student evaluations of a master's degree program (n=139, 45 percent response) are used to demonstrate four techniques: factor, correlational, discriminant, and multiple regression analysis. Their usefulness in identifying causal factors related to program quality is discussed. (SK)

Describes study of two-year college students that was conducted to determine whether variables that were predictors of success in a programing class were also predictors of success in a package-oriented computer class using Lotus 1-2-3. Diagraming skill, critical thinking ability, spatial discrimination, and test anxiety level were examined. (11…

Presents two models of group decision making that integrate mathematical, multicriteria models with behavioral problem-solving concepts. The results of an empirical test that used the Business Management Laboratory simulation game are reported, and the performance of the two integrated models is compared with the performance of a nonintegrated…

Relates gains in the reading, language, and mathematics achievement of 35 upper-elementary Ojibwa (Chippewa) children to their scores on certain subtests of the WISC-R and the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities. Uses multiple regression analyses and cross-validation strategies. Contains 17 references and 7 statistical tables. (SV)