Private preschool and Head Start teachers' interactive behaviors with children of middle and lower socioeconomic status and with boys and girls were compared. Statistical analyses indicated that teachers of lower SES children had fewer verbal communications with children and more interactions with other adults. (Author/JAZ)

Five experiments were performed to determine whether different amounts of attention were demanded of readers under the following conditions: (1) during the reading of relevant segments of text prefaced by questions; (2) by questions following relevant segments of text; and (3) during the reading of prefatory questions. (LMO)

Since computer programs have been available for estimating and testing linear causal models, these models have been used increasingly in the behavioral sciences. This paper discusses the problem that very different causal structures may fit the same set of data equally well. (Author/LMO)

Information utilization was examined among 90 social service decision makers. Results indicated that propensity to use a particular type of information is relatively independent of the propensity to use a particular source from which the information is obtained. (Author/LMO)

The effect of administrative service as department chair on the scholarly careers of academic chemists is explored through an analysis of their publication and doctoral student productivity records over a two-decade period. The results indicate no significant difference in the productivity levels of the experimental and control groups. (Author/MLW)

A communication theory paradigm typically is used to investigate the relationship between evaluation information and utilization: "Who says what, how, to whom, with what effects?" This study investigates the "how," or medium of presentation, aspect of the paradigm. (Author/LMO)

Examined test protocols of 64 male inpatient alcoholics to determine whether a general measure of mental health was related to inventories that assess psychopathology beyond what one could expect by subjects responding in a socially desirable manner. Results demonstrated the spuriousness of partial correlations in controlling for social…

Sixty learning disabled students, aged 12 to 24, were assigned to experimental and control conditions, with experimentals experiencing discussions (e.g., obstacles to academic success) led by teachers trained in reality therapy. Among results of multivariate analysis are that experimentals attained higher academic aspirations and lower anxiety…

This support document accompanies the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) report "From School to Work: The Role of Traineeships" (ED493902). It contains a comprehensive review of the literature referred to in that report and detailed descriptions and results of the econometric modeling upon which the findings are…

Provides an overview of a longitudinal, prospective, multivariate adoption study of behavioral development and discusses the results of analyses of cognitive measures and environmental assessments as examples of the types of information that can emerge from a design of this sort. (Author/RH)

Through statistical analysis the brief attempts to add to discussion of complex issues involved in the closing by the federal/state/vocational rehabilitation system of over 31,000 cases of persons with legal blindness and other visual impairments during 1980. (MC)

Monte Carlo results were used to evaluate procedures for discriminating between groups. A multiple testing version of Hotelling's T-squared and the Bonferroni procedure were most powerful for detecting at least one true difference, depending on conditions examined. A multiple Bonferroni procedure was superior in power for detecting all true…

The canonical correlations and canonical loadings indicated the existence of a single dominant factor between the primary and middle grade data. This factor was interpreted as general scholastic ability. (Author)

Analyses of General Educational Development (GED) ratings of U.S. jobs illustrate the estimation of components of variance and covariance, univariate nd multivariate generalizability coefficients, and canonical coefficients. GED scales, ranging from one to six points, measure reasoning, mathematics, and language abilities needed to perform various…

With the development of refined theory and increased measurement sophistication in family research, multidimensional concepts and multiple indicators are appearing in the literature. This paper provides a nonmathematical introduction to canonical correlation analysis and three empirical examples that demonstrate the technique's applicability in…