Individual vs class ratings of college instruction were compared. Class effects were stronger than individual effects, and the statistical manipulation involved in changing units of analysis did not account for this difference. Grades-rating relationships may be attributable to different elements in the rating process. (Author/RD)

This study related major parameters of moral character (socialization and empathy) to self-reported drug use by 88 students. Level of socialization correlated significantly with total drugs used, frequency of marijuana use, and number of drug-related social complications. However, empathy did not relate to the drug-use variables examined.…

This study focuses on the ideas that are articulated within architectural firms and how these ideas affect basic dimensions of organization: task and structural complexity and successful innovation, as measured by the firm's success in winning design awards. (Author)

A study of 179 vocational-technical teachers at 14 vocational centers in Maryland concluded that teacher morale was related to the leader behavior of the principal. Teacher morale was significantly related to the principal's system orientation as well as his person orientation. (Author/BP)

An interactive relationship between intelligence and right dominance in predicting reading ability is suggested as a reason for the variation of the results reported in the relevant literature. Discusses implications for theory and practice in relation to reading and reading difficulty. (Editor/RK)

One hundred culturally disadvantaged children were tested on culture-fair (Raven) and culturally biased (WISC) tests, and scores were correlated with academic achievement. (Author)

Data were collected on 799 students at the University of Florida, and relationships were analyzed using the Pearson product-moment correlation technique. Significant relationships were not found between student ratings and student achievement. (Author/LBH)

Describes a study of undergraduates in the United Kingdom that investigated the relationship between computer anxiety and self-ratings of mood change. Mood was measured either by a computerized form of visual analog mood scales (VAMS) or by a paper-and-pencil test, the Velten Mood Induction Procedure and the Computer Anxiety Rating Scale was also…

A study involving 221 individuals with mild intellectual disabilities examined the psychometric properties of the Lifestress Inventory (LI). Confirmatory factor analysis indicated that three underlying factors corresponding to General Worry, Negative Interpersonal Relations, and Coping were sufficient to account for the correlations among the…

Investigates the effects of cognitive style and theoretical orientation on psychology interns' judgments about the type of supervision they find most beneficial. Results indicate that trainees' cognitive styles and behavioral emphasis of their theoretical orientations were significantly related to their preferences for task-oriented and…

Analysis of data on 3,363 American parents from the 1985 National Family Violence Survey found that marital violence is a statistically significant predictor of physical child abuse and the greater the amount of spousal abuse, the greater the probability of physical child abuse. The relationship was stronger for abusing husbands than for abusing…

This study examined the impact of explanation seeking on the achievement and attitudes of students in grades 7-10 learning to solve correlational reasoning problems in a cooperative learning setting. Results provided little support for explanation seeking as an achievement strategy due to students' inability to recognize when they needed help and…

The Quantitative Attitudes Questionnaire measuring graduate students' attitudes toward quantitative research methodology was developed and administered to 90 graduate students. These results and those from cross-validation with three similar samples correlated positively with quantitative examination and Graduate Record Examination mathematics…

Focuses on analyzing undergraduate students' information needs in terms of conceptual understanding of the topic they propose to study and its consequences for the search process and outcome. Highlights include the ASK (anomalous states of knowledge) hypothesis; subject knowledge and searching; Kuhlthau's model; conceptual structure; knowledge…

Discusses the increasing diversity on college campuses with foreign students and reports results of a study on end-user searching that employs both gender and language variables in analyzing search success, techniques, and satisfaction. An analysis by language background indicates a correlation between native language and searching ability.…