This study deals with how long managers perceive it will take them to learn their positions, and how long their superiors and subordinates estimate it will take them to learn. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine the significance of grade-level as a contributor to the variance of Flanders' Categories when corrected for appropriate measures of individual teacher characteristics. (Author)

Article evaluated the merits of the practical test, regarded as a valuable one for measuring aspects of science achievement other than the aspects measured by paper-and-pencil type tests. (Author/RK)

This paper attempts to employ a model of occupational attainment proposed for the United States by Peter M. Blau and O. Dudley Duncan in order to test a series of propositions about the influence of societal development on the role of formal schooling in the occupational attainment process. (Author)

Describes the MANOVA (multivariate analysis of variance) Computer Program for ascertaining whether k groups differ significantly from one another on p dependent variables. (Author/RC)

Describes some of the situations in which a psychologist is likely to violate the assumption of independent errors. A Monte-Carlo study of the effects of this violation is then described. (Author/RC)

One of the aims of this study was to recognize whether a change had occurred in the self-concept of Returning Women Students (RWS) between a previous academic experience and their return to formal education. (Author/RK)

Sequential analysis is discussed as an educational tool and experiments in educational uses of this method are described. (Text is in German.) (Author/AM)

Research performed pursuant to a grant from the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

Four potential biases incurred by using a sample of wives of male respondents as a sample of women for sex comparisons of the occupational attainment process were examined and empirically assessed. Using data from the Wisconsin longitudinal study of high school seniors, the extent and nature of two potential biases were considered: (1) a sampling…

The effects of racism and sexism can be seen in the various elements of research methods including the selection of topics, design, sampling, measurement, and the generation of conclusions. In selecting topics, potential sources of bias such as funding sources and publishing patterns are covered. How knowledge of appropriate literature, selection…

This report focuses on two separate aspects of the longitudinal study of innovative instruction called Studies of Innovation. These aspects are the innovation being studied (the Instructional Programming Model of the Individually Guided Education Program) and the procedures used in selecting research sites. Following the introduction, Chapter 2…

Twenty-three male distance runners between the ages of 16 and 23 who had achieved a ten-minute or better two-mile performance were tested to determine physical and physiological characteristics to be used in predictive research regarding running performance. Relative body fat ratio, metabolic data, and oxygen intake capability were among the…

The amount of variance accounted for by treatment can be estimated with omega squared or with the squared multiple correlation coefficient. Monte Carlo methods were employed to compare omega squared, the squared multiple correlation coefficient, and the squared multiple correlation coefficient to which a shrinkage formula had been applied, in…

The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences has developed a wide range of statistical models to test hypotheses generated in relation to an equally wide range of measurement and evaluation situations. The randomized block (RB) design has traditionally been a preferred model for much psychological research. The RB has…