Program directors and evaluators need to address the important program accountability question of attribution of outcomes. This discussion is a beginning. Starting with some basics, such as the meaning of the program, approaches to program theory development, and the nature of attribution, the paper suggests three types of attribution. An…

The authors of this article contend that the Guinan and Foulds study was inadequately designed and executed, and the results indicate little of the "usefulness" of the test, much less illuminate the important hypothesis central to the investigation. Specific suggestions for further research in marathon group evaluation are made. (Author)

In this article, the nature of adolescent judgement was investigated by means of two components: the maturation of adolescent mental processes and the interaction of poetry in that maturation. (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)

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between the motivation level of the student and his respective class size. Furthermore, if a relationship does exist, is this relationship reflected in the student's evaluation of the course's effectiveness. (Author)

An examination of the social and "academic" aspects of rhetorical criticism. (CH)

The present experiments were designed to obtain further information on the forgetting of verbal items from STS when the interpolated activity is a very attention-demanding nonverbal task. (Author)

The present experiment attempted to restrict processing by requiring Ss to process the material either orthographically or taxonomically in a reaction time situation, which should place constraints upon additional processing. (Author)

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)

In this article, the author discusses the application of factor analysis as a technique in the investigation of multidimensional educational problems and presents the results of one such application. (Editor)

Forty participants who learned ten sentences and who were tested for recall and ability to generate new sentences demonstrated that the closer the sentence order was to natural language order, the better the recall and new sentence generation. (Author/KM)

Research supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the University of Texas at Austin. (DD)

Explores the methodology and objectives of the National Assessment of Education project and draws implications from their findings in relation to writing skills. (RB)

A critical analysis of current reading textbooks. (MB)