Describes the results of a survey of undergraduate students enrolled in courses that incorporate Web-based modules that assessed their satisfaction with learning in a digital instructional environment, with the goal of identifying learners' temperaments as possible predictors of satisfaction. Discusses use of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter II.…

Discusses relationships between a mathematical measurement model and its real-world applications. Makes a distinction between large-scale data matrices commonly found in educational measurement and smaller matrices found in attitude and personality measurement. Also evaluates nonparametric methods for estimating item response functions and…

This article discusses the rationale of an item response theory (IRT) model, based on Thurstone scaling, for personality measurement and suggests procedures for (a) estimating the location and slope parameters of the person response curve (PRC), (b) assessing the precision of the estimates, and (c) assessing the model-data fit. The relations…

The problem was to determine whether significant relationships existed between the personality types of deans/directors of continuing education and chief academic officers in institutions of higher education in North Carolina. Literature was reviewed in order to determine the research that had been completed using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator…

This study represents a preliminary review of first year teachers' reported levels of development on selected dispositions. The responses of practicing first year teachers, in this case 52 first year teachers who were three-fourths of the way through the first year in one school district and participating in the district's mentoring program, will…

The purpose of this study was to determine if a relationship exists between teaching efficacy and personality type of agricultural science cooperating teachers. The target population was agricultural science teachers who served as cooperating teachers. A convenience sample of those teachers who attended an optional cooperating teacher meeting at…

School psychologists have a critical role in identifying social-emotional problems and psychopathology in youth based on a set of personality-assessment competencies. The development of competencies in assessing personality and psychopathology is complex, requiring a variety of integrated methods and approaches. Given the limited extent and scope…

Personality is defined as the dynamic organization, within an individual, of the systems that determine his or her characteristic behavior or thought. The study of personality involves many aspects of human behavior. Four approaches used to study personality are presented in this document: (1) Social Learning theory; (2) Trait theory; (3)…

A sample of prominent psychotherapists were asked to fill out the A-B therapist "type" scale and comment on their possible differential effectiveness in treating schizoid/schizophrenic versus neurotic patients. The data suggest that B therapists desire and seek more complex and exciting sensory-cognitive inputs during therapy hours than A…

The purpose of this investigation was to test the Eriksonian epigentic concept that older adolescents will have a greater degree of ego identity than will younger adolescents. (Author)

Article considered the use of volunteers in the classroom and some important steps in establishing paraprofessional programs. (Author/RK)

Attempts to relate "successful" clinic handling of cases to various characteristics, including willingness to participate in research. Found that volunteers were less anxious and had greater sociability and self-esteem than non-volunteers. (Author/PC)

Discusses study involving parcels of homegenous items as opposed to item factoring. (SDH)

Personnel directors (N=34) responded to a mailed adjective checklist describing the ideal secretary. This list contained eight adjectives cxorresponding to each of Holland's six vocationally-related personality traits (Realistic, Social, Investigative, Enterprising, Conventional, and Artistic) and eight feminine and eight masculine adjectives from…

By means of 12 selected subscales of the Personality Inventory for Children (PIC), which were used to plot profiles, this study investigated personality characteristics of oppositional children. In general, oppositional children are children who do not do what is asked of them. In particular, oppositional behavior consists of at least 6 months of…