Article considered whether pupils' creative thinking and problem solving abilities can be improved through direct educational efforts. (Author/RK)

This paper described findings which accounted for the coexistence of positive and negative results in previous reports and showed how the findings can be explained by a theory of the origin of handedness. (Author/RK)

Among the purposes of this chapter is the provision of a description of the sample and research design of the MISOE sample data systems, including a specification of the size of the sample. (Author/RK)

National Assessment of Educational Progress. Their reading skills aside, young Americans not only attach great importance to studying literature but are remarkbly avid readers. (Editor) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Interpretation).

Hemifield differences in the recognition of briefly presented words were investigated in children ranging in grade level from second grade through college. (Editor)

This study employed the procedure of item sampling to reduce the time expenditure of participants when responding to a questionnaire concerned with the implementation of an innovative elementary school project. (Author)

The purpose of this research was to determine whether unfair test discrimination was occurring for yet another employee population - one which might be described as culturally disadvantaged, and to examine the evidence for test bias using multiple regression procedures. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether a "natural" four-alternative multiple choice item represents the same psychological task as a five-choice item rescored as a four-choice item. (Author)

A cross-sectional, stratified random sample of 1,891 male and female adolescents (age range from 12 years 6 months to 17 years 6 months) was tested in 1970 with the Grades 9-12 form of the Primary Mental Abilities test. (Editor)

Expressions for the expected value, density, and distribution function (DF) of GS (gain from selection) are derived and studied in terms of sample size, number of predictors, and the prior distribution assigned to the population multiple correlation. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential usefulness of autobiographies as instructional materials for general education objectives and an introspective appraisal of the method of analysis, identifying and analyzing the problems encountered in the use of the method. (Author/RK)

School sampling has revealed a greater need for colleges to produce better written and more informative college catalogs. (RK)

This study compared more than 3400 MMPIs obtained from pschiatric in-patients in public mental health facilities with mental status and preadmission descriptor ratings to derive empirical correlates of profiles clustered primarily by two-point high codes. (Author)

The purpose of this investigation is to provide further data concerning the variables, age, intelligence and sex, that may affect moral judgment. (Author/RK)

This paper provides a guide to the minimum size of treatment groups, inferred from the relationships between pupil norms and norms for class averages of standardized achievement tests. (Editor)