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Permutt, Steven E. – Educational Forum, 1974
Article considered the marketing concept approach to advertising education and how it developed each student's own interests and abilities. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Advertising, Credits, Educational Background, Educational Philosophy
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Mercer, Jane R. – Harvard Educational Review, 1974
The author discusses the findings of an eight-year study in which she explored school and agency classification procedures for children based on standardized intelligence tests. (Editor)
Descriptors: Children, Civil Liberties, Definitions, Intelligence Quotient
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Webster, William J. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1973
It was the purpose of this study to investigate some concomitants of reported drug usage among public school students. (Author)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Drug Education, Educational Research, Ethnic Groups
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Schott, James L. – NASSP Bulletin, 1974
The purpose of this study was to compare differences in the intellectual, interest, emotional, and social maturity levels of fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh grade pupils in elementary and middle schools. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Educational Programs, Educational Research, Elementary Schools
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Janzen, Henry L.; Hallworth, Herbert J. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1973
The present study is an attempt to explore the usefulness of demographic predictors of writing ability. Specifically, it is concerned with delineating the elements involved in writing and to ascertain the effects of achievement, language background, age, sex, social class, etc., on linguistic ability. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: College Students, Demography, Factor Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Kennett, K. F. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1973
The purpose of the present study was to investigate, in a middle-class sample of children, the relationship between intelligence and family size in order to ascertain, within the upper SES groups, the relationship between family size and a child's performance on an intelligence test. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Educational Research, Family Structure
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Centra, John A. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1973
The purpose of this study was to further investigate college teachers' self-ratings and ratings given by students by comparing these two sets of ratings over a wide range of specific student-oriented instructional practices. (Author)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Instructional Programs, Questionnaires, Sampling
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Frisbee, David A. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1973
The purpose of this study was to gather empirical evidence to compare the reliabilities and concurrent validities of multiple choice and true-false tests that were written to measure understandings and relationships in the same content areas. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, High School Students, Measurement
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Kelly, M.; And Others – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
Greek migrant children attending Sydney (NSW) schools and taught in English were tested for conservation of number and length in both Greek and English. (Editor)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept), Educational Psychology
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Templer, Andrew J. – Personnel Psychology, 1973
The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between field dependence-independence as measured by the RFT (Rod and Frame Test) and management style as measured by a number of questionnaire and situational instruments. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Administration, Analysis of Variance, Attention Control, Cognitive Ability
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Mobley, William H.; Ramsay, Robert S. – Personnel Psychology, 1973
The present research was stimulated by three related problems frequently faced in validation research: viable procedures for combining similar jobs in order to assess the validity of various predictors, for assessing groups of jobs represented in previous validity studies, and for assessing the applicability of validity findings between units.…
Descriptors: Chemical Industry, Factor Analysis, Generalization, Job Analysis
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Ryan, Frank L.; Carlson, Myrtle A. – Journal of Educational Research, 1973
The problem of this investigation was to ascertain the relative effects of two teaching strategies, discovery and expository (telling), on the learning of economic concepts by first grade students, as measured by a criterion test instrument. (Author)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Discovery Learning, Economics Education
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Maguire, M. Stephen – Adolescence, 1973
This study proposed to formulate an instrument to help the adolescent make a self-evaluation, and to acquire some self-understanding. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Rating Scales, Behavioral Science Research, Correlation
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Spolsky, Bernard; And Others – Computers and the Humanities, 1973
This study, in which adult Navaho interviewers recorded conversations with Navaho children, involved the analysis of Navaho lexicon and spelling. Computer processing made it possible to base the study on the vocabulary of these young Navaho. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Child Language, Computer Assisted Instruction, Graphemes
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Mathews, Walter M. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1973
This article reports a comparative study of teacher acceptance of two kinds of testing reports that were generated for Form A of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills at the fourth-grade level. (Editor)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Data Collection, Elementary Schools
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