Several factors should be considered in using standardized tests to measure achievement in the mentally retarded. Who should be included in the normative sample is a first consideration; this depends on the definition of mentally retarded being used. For achievement purposes the mentally retarded probably differ from one another as much as they do…

A study was conducted on the use of audiotape and videotape self-confrontation techniques in training speech and hearing therapy clinicians. The dissemination phase of the study consisted of a conference held in October, 1970 at the University of Denver entitled "Videotape and Audiotape Confrontation in Clinical Training." The findings and…

This study was undertaken to determine whether differences in characteristics exist between public school dropouts and graduates. The need for such a study is indicated by the fact that dropouts are finding it more difficult to achieve success in most life ventures. A random sampling from 304 school systems in Indiana produced twenty school…

This study was designed to fill the need for empirically derived information to determine the most salient factors which differentiate street gang youths from youths in comparable neighborhoods who remain independent of the street gang. (Author)

The study hypothesized that no differences in ratings on selected teaching performance criteria exist among three groups of student teachers based on cumulative grade point averages. The supervising teachers assigned the performance ratings. Significant differences among the groups were found on three of the nine performance criteria under…

Personality variables and teachers' ratings will explain more than 50 percent of the variance, with the latter being the most significant and economical method for predicting mathematical achievement of seventh graders. (MP)

Kirby and Das (EJ 182 444) dichotomized measures of individual differences and treated them as independent variables in an analysis of variance. Correlational analysis would have provided more powerful tests of their hypotheses. Interpretation of the dichotomized variables as independent, causal antecedents of their measures of intelligence would…

The t ratio used in testing the difference between two independent regression coefficients is generalized to the multivariate case of testing the difference between two vectors of regression coefficients. This is particularly useful in determining which of two variables best predicts a number of criterion variables. (Author/JKS)

Scales from the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey and from the Thurstone Interest Schedule were correlated with achievement for students in a personnel evaluation course. Achievement was significantly correlated with the emotional stability and personal relations scales. (JKS)

The relationship between environmental ratings of community homes using factor scores derived from the Program Analysis of Service Systems and changes in adaptive behavior of 245 developmentally disabled residents living in those facilites was investigated. (Author/PHR)

Demonstrates how recalibration of education and occupation predictor variables relating to income attainment can improve accuracy with which income attainment is predicted. (Author/DB)

Tests indicated that kindergarten children with impulsive conceptual tempos performed significantly lower on several measures of achievement and reasoning ability than did children with reflective tempos. (Editor)

Seven easily obtainable background variables, such as number of persons, rooms, or cars per family dwelling; kindergarten attendance; and sex were found to have a multiple correlation of .52 with a standard achievement test for a large sample of fourth grade pupils in a metropolitan school district. (JKS)

This paper evaluates and tests several theories of middle class delinquency. Arguments that middle-class boys are less delinquent and commit different kinds of delinquent acts than boys from other classes are not supported by the data. A modified version of social control theory is tested. (Author/AM)

Sixty children were individually administered the Matching Familiar Figures Test and the Bender Gestalt Test. A significant relationship was found between errors on the Bender Gestalt Test and impulsivity. Specifically, increased or decreased loops, change in angulation, loops for circles, and circles for dots or dots for circles were all…