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Ruud, Alice M. – 1989
This career planning handbook is designed to help high school students to set goals and plan their lives. Its 11 sections cover the following: personal data, personality type, skills, discovering values, the world of work, goal setting, life plans, preparing for college, basic necessities, meeting college costs, and job prospects. Each section…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, Goal Orientation, High Schools
Roberts, Dayton Young – President's Idea Journal, 1987
This "special report" is an alert for academic presidents interested in research findings on "Leadership Types". It is subtitled: "An Alert to the Potential for Enhancing Leadership Effectiveness by Personalizing the Administrative/Learning Climate." The paper describes the development of a teacher education program…
Descriptors: Administrators, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, College Administration
Download full textHaipt, Mildred – 1990
Little empirical research has documented the impressionistic reports that mature-age students bring a unique and highly desirable set of personal qualities to the teaching profession. To help fill the gap, this study gathered empirical data from both mature-age and college-age students (N=74) on the following: (1) personality characteristics; (2)…
Descriptors: Adults (30 to 45), Beginning Teachers, Career Change, Comparative Analysis
Dockrell, W. Bryan – 1988
Five essays selected from 70 papers and books spanning 30 years in the publishing life of W. Bryan Dockrell are presented. The essays concentrate on three themes within the field of educational evaluation--attainment, assessment, and reporting. Perspectives and practices in different countries are provided. The essays include: (1) "The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Assessment
Morrow, Jim M. – 1987
This paper offers some suggestions and cautions concerning the use of the Self-Directed Search (SDS) and the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII). A rationale for separate scoring of interest and ability sections of the SDS is provided, i.e., that correlations between interest and abilities and between abilities and vocational satisfaction…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Interest Inventories, Interrater Reliability, Job Satisfaction
GOLDMAN, HARVEY – 1966
PERSONALITY TRAITS OF TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS ARE EXAMINED FOR THEIR EFFECTS UPON TEACHER-ADMINISTRATOR RELATIONSHIPS. THE EDWARDS PERSONAL PREFERENCE SCHEDULE, THE NATIONAL PRINCIPALSHIP STUDY, AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE PREFERENCE FORM WERE ADMINISTERED TO TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS FROM AN URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICT IN MICHIGAN. RESULTS INDICATE THAT THE…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Bibliographies, Educational Research
Marliave, Leonard S.; Berliner, David C. – 1977
This report discusses the question of the appropriateness of teacher behaviors in relation to both the counting of frequencies of teacher behaviors and the interpretation of the impact of teacher behaviors on student learning. The recent focus, in research on teaching, on the counting of teacher behaviors gives rise to a concern for the meaning as…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Classroom Environment
Molina, Charles, Jr. – 1978
An integrated job preparation model with development rationale is presented for use by social action agencies in serving Puerto Rican/Hispanic youth clientele. Findings of background research to isolate demographic and cultural variables of the primary target audiences are summarized. An organizational evaluation is also described which studied…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Community Action, Community Organizations, Educational Assessment
1962
The first topic of the conference was creativity. Papers delivered were Knowledge and Creativity by Theodore C. Denise and Hobert W. Burns; Potentiality for Creativity and Its Measurement, by J. P. Guilford; and Some Methodological Issues in the Study of Creativity by Robert L. Thorndike. In the second session, a paper on comparability of scores…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Oriented Programs
PDF pending restorationRitchie, Harriette B. – 1975
A study was conducted to determine the Jungian personality types of selected groups of student and registered nurses, to identify their preferred learning styles, to ascertain the relationship between personality type and preferred learning style, and to identify the most productive learning styles for given personality types. Subjects'…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Media
Sobolik, Gayle – 1978
This module on assessing students' personal characteristics is one of a set of seven on vocational students and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules constituting a core curriculum intended for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business, home economics, and industrial education.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Competency Based Teacher Education
Osgood, Charles E.; And Others – 1957
The problem of measuring meaning viewed strictly as a psychological conception via the application of semantic differential theory is presented in this study. The first half of the book discusses theoretical background, logic of semantic measurement, basic factor analysis research, and a critical scientific evaluation of measuring procedures. The…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Componential Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Owens, William A. – 1970
A conceptual model of individual assessment through the use of biodata responses with minimal input information is outlined. The process is considered especially applicable to industrial psychology. A scored autobiographical data form, which measures the individual's past behavior and experiences, provides for assignment to a specific subgroup…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Biographical Inventories, Cluster Grouping
Veldman, Donald J.; And Others – 1968
This paper outlines the development of techniques for computer-based personality assessment from sentence completions. The One-Word Sentence Completion (OWSC) instrument was designed to elicit data suitable for machine processing, while retaining most of the advantages of a free-response format. Two operative scoring systems are described. The…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedMilner, Joel S.; Murphy, William D. – Family Relations, 1995
Reviews assessment approaches used to evaluate child physical and sexual abuse offenders. Discusses interview and observational methods and problems. Reviews and critiques selected personality measures used to assess child abuse offenders. Reviews offender specific measures. Problems related to the lack of measure specificity and selectivity are…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, Criminals, Evaluation
