The concept of quality is analyzed with special attention to its different senses in two contexts: qualitative evaluation and assessment of educational program quality. The view that evaluation of program quality cannot be validly expressed in quantitative terms and that qualitative evaluation methodologies have special relevance for the…

Presented is a two-volume study of the characteristics of students identified as handicapped from educational, clinical, and psychological evaluations. The first volume describes an analysis (based on surveys collected by the National Center for Health Statistics) of the affects on identification of 14,185 6- to 17-year old students of family…

Much research on sex roles and their correlates characteristically has been performed in laboratory settings with a college student sample. Job analysis interviews were conducted to extend androgyny research to the work setting. Supervisory performance ratings of job activities and Bem Sex-Role Inventory data were obtained for 135 female nurses. A…

Individuals interacting with an unfamiliar target person behave according to prior impressions of the target. A perceiver's pre-interaction expectancy can mediate both his and the target person's behavior, resulting in behavioral confirmation or compensation. Male subjects (N=96) participated in dyadic interactions in which one subject (perceiver)…

Proposed is an educational philosophy to address the changing world condition in which space and resources are shrinking and the fact of a whole world community is becoming more influential. The proposed philosophy, "Whole Earth Education," is discussed as being an appropriate learning environment, a commitment to the pursuit of "wholeness" in the…

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PATTERNS OF POOR PERFORMANCE AND SIGNIFICANT DISTINGUISHING FACTORS WHICH MIGHT IDENTIFY DROPOUTS IS EXPLORED. DATA WERE OBTAINED ON 270 STUDENTS (FROM A PARENT POPULATION OF 2,500) WHO WERE POOR PERFORMERS (POOR PERFORMANCE BEING DEFINED AS THREE "D'S" OR "F'S" IN HIGH SCHOOL). THE VAST MAJORITY OF…

GRADES OF 64 STUDENTS IN A SPECIAL PSYCHOLOGY CLASS FOR LOW-ABILITY STUDENTS WERE CORRELATED WITH SCORES ON SELECTED APTITUDE, ACHIEVEMENT, AND MOTIVATIONAL MEASURES. READING COMPREHENSION WAS THE BEST PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS. ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES PREDICTED GRADES BETTER FOR WOMEN THAN FOR MEN. IN GENERAL, SCORES ON VARIOUS TESTS OF…

This research was designed to identify and assess the effects of a job's context and naturally occurring job content changes upon the job attitudes of 709 Air Force radio operators. The first of two phases of the investigation identified specific job types within the radio operator career field at two points in time, and determined the flow of…

The following 8 variables were tested as predictors of success of students enrolled in freshman chemistry at Tennessee Technological University: (1) ACT subtest in natural science; (2) ACT subtest in mathematics; (3) ACT composite scores; (4) final course grade in high school chemistry; (5) final course grade in high school physics; (6) high…

REPORTED ARE THE RESULTS OF SEVERAL RELATED STUDIES SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA). THESE STUDIES ATTEMPTED TO (1) DETERMINE THOSE CHARACTERISTICS OF SCIENTISTS WHICH ARE VALID IN DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN SCIENTISTS OF HIGH AND LOW LEVEL PRODUCTIVITY AND CREATIVITY, AND (2) UTILIZE THESE CHARACTERISTICS IN…

This document is a study of the importance of affective variables and the implications of these variables in student success or failure. A 28 item questionnaire was administered to 30 college students enrolled in a compensatory education program. The questionnaire assessed attitudes toward professors, administrators, peers, toward relevance of…

Thirty American and 30 Bristish first graders were administered a screening test to determine whether similar identifiable learning problems exist across cultures. Results of the Aston Index indicated significant differences between American and British Ss in one subtest of the Index's General Underlying Ability, and in two subtests of the…

A main problem encountered by science and mathematics students at secondary and tertiary institutions throughout Papua New Guinea is that of dealing with ratio and proportion. The problem is most clearly defined in science, since this is the area in which the quantitative manipulation of physical variables is most frequently carried out. An…

This volume consists of a number of appendixes containing data and analyses that were compiled to aid administrators of the Skyline Wide Educational Plan (SWEP) in their efforts to develop a comprehensive secondary school plan for the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex in the 1970's. Much of the volume is devoted to various facility considerations…

Models proposed by Cleary, Thorndike, Cole, Linn, Einhorn and Bass, Darlington, and Gross and Su for analyzing bias in the use of tests in a selection strategy are surveyed. Several additional models are also introduced. The purpose is to describe, compare, contrast, and evaluate these models while extracting such useful ideas as may be found in…