The technique to be described here was developed to meet the need for a language production measure. It samples a variety of morphemic and syntactic patterns, and avoids the problems of imitation and of free speech analysis. The production test is administered in a sentence-completion format. A very brief incomplete story is told by the examiner…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of self-pacing instruction in a science methods course on teachers' achievement and attitudes toward science. A second purpose was to examine "open and closed" mindedness and achievement in science methods instruction. Twenty pre-service elementary school teachers were randomly selected and…

This paper describes an investigation of the effects of group interaction and consensus on information processing behavior when information is received sequentially or simultaneously by the information processing unit. Responses were compared to the Bayesian norm and further analyzed to determine the extent to which groups differed from…

This study was a replication of an earlier study by Mazyck (1971) which was designed to analyze characteristics of paraprofessional child care workers, as determined by ratings given on a scale of paraprofessional worker characteristics. The original study is reviewed and the development of the Mazyck Rating Scale for Paraprofessionals, is…

A basic methodological approach in developmental studies is the collection of longitudinal data. Behavioral data cen take at least two forms, qualitative (or discrete) and quantitative. Both types are fallible. Measurement errors can occur in quantitative data and measures of these are based on error variance. Qualitative or discrete data can…

A lack of data continues to hinder efforts to cure the problems of poverty areas. This project was designed to determine possible means to gather the needed data, so that program planners could make decisions based on facts rather than intuition. Although this is a case study of an inner-city poverty area of Philadelphia, the need for data and the…

This paper describes the Model for Education Improvement and reports on an informal test of the hypothesis that the model is a valid description of the educational change process within a school system. The model combines well known elements of the change process--notions of external and internal inputs, the adoption process, and relating the…

The results of a rigorously controlled sampling of mathematics computational skills, as possessed by grades 1 - 12 students attending private and public schools, in a rural semi-urban, contiguous area in Connecticut, are contained in this report. Status study data is presented in a graphic form. The data reported is derived from an item analysis…

This report describes two measuring instruments for determining social awareness and racial attitudes among primary grade children. The proximity test is based upon inferring the cognitive and affective distinctions and judgments which a child makes concerning people from how close together he clusters representational drawings of himself and of…

This study is an effort to determine possible service performance levels in hospital libraries, based on access to the scholarly record of medicine through selected lists of clinical journals and indexing and abstracting journals. Specific emphasis is placed on (1) the citation verification through the use of the index and abstract journals, (2)…

Research objectives were: (1) to establish norm data from a battery of creativity tests, (2) to obtain frequency of response scores for the originality sub-test (Guilford) to compare with scorer judgment type "remote" scores, (3) to perform an item analysis, (4) to analyze and report on the relationship of creativity, socio-economic status, I.Q.,…

Vocational education administrators must think of themselves as managers of manpower development systems and apply tools of management to achieve their objectives. To do this a theoretical model, called the Manpower Conversion Equation, was developed from which six basic vocational education objectives could be generated deductively. The model…

The purpose of this manual is to provide a course development method that deals with all aspects of intercultural communication, not just the linguistic aspect. Appendix A presents a procedure for collecting and analyzing military data. Appendix B contains a summary of the military data on which the manual is based. Appendix C presents an…

The study of the causal connections of national educational expansion and social and economic development raises a variety of theoretical and methodological problems. The research reported here concentrates on the latter. It is felt that, because it is expected that educational expansion affects economic development, complicated analysis…

The data presented in this document are the results of a survey of physician extenders currently practicing in Michigan as of November 1973. "Physician extender" is a term used for personnel who assist or collaborate with the physician in providing patient care, which means that nurses with additional training who are functioning in…