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Purohit, Anal A.; Magoon, A. J.
The purpose of this study was to determine what relationships exist between course and instructor evaluations and student/instructor preferences regarding classroom instructions. The specific null hypothesis explored was: The congruencies on ratings of the personal preferences of students and the personal preferences of instructors will not be…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Correlation, Course Evaluation
Mazyck, Harold E., Jr. – 1974
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…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Cluster Analysis, Data Analysis, Educational Assessment
Walker, Deborah Klein – 1973
This handbook is a comprehensive guide to socioemotional measures available for use with children aged three to six. The measures are presented in six categories: attitudes, general personality and emotional adjustment, interests or preferences, self concept, personality and behavior traits, and social skills or competency. In addition to being a…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Kindergarten, Literature Reviews, Measurement
Bochner, Arthur P.; Kaminski, Edmund P. – 1973
Conceptualizing the subject matter of interpersonal behavior was the primary objective of this study. Researchers administered version three of Lorr and McNair's Interpersonal Behavior Inventory (IBI) to 507 undergraduates at Cleveland State University. The first group received three copies of the IBI and were asked to rate themselves, rate a…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Group Behavior
Dunay, Lillian R.; Robison, Helen F. – 1973
Analyses of teaching behavior, transcribed from videotaped samples by elementary student teachers, who used a new instrument, Baruch Behavior Analysis, were examined for accuracy, reliability, quantification, and interpretation. The instrument helps the student to analyze himself and prescribe improvement for his behavior as to extent and patterns…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Elementary School Teachers, Measurement Instruments, Personality Assessment
Grapko, M. F.; Fraser, J. A. – 1971
Nearly 500 boys and 500 girls in the 4th, 5th and 6th grades filled out the Child Study Security Test, Elementary Form, while their 34 teachers completed a 16 item Teacher Rating Questionnaire. The pupils' self-reported personality characteristics were then correlated with their teacher's ratings. Agreement was used as an indicator of the…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Elementary School Students, Individual Characteristics, Individual Differences
Dillon, James J.; Feldman, S. Shirley – 1970
Realizing the importance of human personality variables in comprehensive educational assessment structures, Operation PEP sought to develop a tool to assess specific human personality characteristics. The resulting accounting scheme is divided into three chapters: (1) an outline and definition of relevant terminology, (2) a scheme to account for…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Evaluation
Edwards, Keith J.; Whitney, Douglas R. – 1971
A sample of 358 men and 360 women took the Self-Directed Search (SDS), a vocational guidance tool developed by Holland based on his theory of vocational choice. Holland had found that in the occupational domain the factor loadings on the Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional scales fit a hexagonal paradigm…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Classification
Holdridge, William E. – 1972
The author begins with a general review of source credibility research, as an introduction to his study on the dimensions of credibility for teachers in the classroom and the dimensions of faculty-course evaluation questionnaires. His investigation utilized 46 semantic differential scales for the concepts "this teacher" and "this class," using as…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis
HENDERSON, EDMUND H.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THE RELATIONSHIPS OF THREE PERSONALITY CONCEPTS, DIFFERENTIATION, ESTEEM, AND INDIVIDUALISM, TO READING ACHIEVEMENT AND DISABILITY WERE EXPLORED. THIRTY-TWO BOYS AND 16 GIRLS, AGE 7 TO 14 WITH 1 TO 6 YEARS READING RETARDATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE READING STUDY CENTER WERE MATCHED WITH SUCCESSFUL READERS OF THE SAME AGE AND SEX. THE SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis, Individual Testing, Matched Groups
Thompson, Mark E. – 1976
Traditional variables used to predict success in higher education have been classified as intellective factors. These so-called intellective factors include: high school grades, aptitude scores and I.Q. scores. Other significant variables used to predict grades are known as non-intellective factors. These non-intellective factors include concepts…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Higher Education, Intellectual Experience, Literature Reviews
Stewart, David W. – 1975
The Tennessee Self Concept Scale (TSCS) was examined within a multimethod-multitrait framework over a three-year time period. Reliability and intercorrelation matrices are given based on 22 to 37 subjects that were tested and retested over the three-year interval. The TSCS was found to be reliable and to bear consistent and systematic…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Personality Theories
Haase, Richard F. – 1971
Thirty-six subjects were administered the 16PF and participated in a brief, unstructured interview. Paralinguistic behavior (fluency, duration and speech rate) were scored from tapes of the interviews and correlated to personality characteristics. Four significant relationships emerged revealing that fluency is related to adventurousness; duration…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Individual Characteristics, Language Patterns
Truax, Charles B. – 1963
This paper describes by illustrative examples from therapeutic encounters the nine stages of an Intrapersonal Exploration (DX) scale. It is a revision of an earlier scale, based upon the theoretical conception of intrapersonal exploration as a sufficient antecedent condition for constructive personality change in psychotherapy. The scale is…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Measurement Instruments, Personality Assessment, Personality Change
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Krug, Samuel E. – School Psychology Digest, 1978
Cattell emphasizes that research on the personality structure should precede scale development; in this way, personality tests will approach the precision of ability tests. He discusses testing trends and the contribution of personality tests to the school setting--specifically to the prediction of achievement, underachievement, problem behavior,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Testing, Individual Characteristics, Longitudinal Studies
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