AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DEVELOP A TAXONOMY FROM A SYNTHESIS OF PREVIOUS APPROACHES TO THE DESCRIPTION AND CATEGORIZATION OF TEACHER CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR. INVESTIGATORS FOUND THAT THE VARIETY OF VIEWPOINTS COULD NOT BE SYNTHESIZED INTO ONE SINGLE SYSTEM. HOWEVER, SOME OF THE CATEGORIES, APPROACHES, AND CONCEPTUALIZATIONS FROM PREVIOUS EFFORTS PROVIDED…

The Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Scale (LWMAS) and several measures of religious beliefs and commitment were administered to 66 married couples. The two types of LWMAS scoring weights produce the same relationships. Marital adjustment scales are paper/pencil projective measures that tap spouses' intended and actual values, goals, and…

Reports on a factor analysis and scale revision completed 20 years after the development of the Louisville Behavior Checklist, an inventory for parents to rate children's behavior, using a larger clinical sample of children from more diverse population, and using improved factor-analytic techniques. Cross-validated five of the original factors,…

A methodology was described for operationalizing the terms "occasionally" and "frequently" on the Maladaptive Behavior Scale developed from the American Association of Mental Deficiency Adaptive Behavior Scale. Numerical definitions were devised from modal ratings of staff members of 28 rehabilitation agencies. (Author/DB)

The Minnesota Developmental Programming System Behavioral Scales, Alternate Form C, designed to assess adaptive behavior of profoundly developmentally disabled individuals, was evaluated using data from 3,487 individuals. (Author/CL)

Neutralization theory was tested with questionnaires administered to a random sample of public high school students (N-298) and institutionalized male delinquents (N-53). Neutralization acceptance technique patterns were similar across subsamples; however, correlations between each technique and each type of delinquency were statistically…

A monitoring form has been developed to allow special educators to learn of the handicapped child's progress in the regular class. Easy to use, the form states information on student performance relative to classmates, effort, completion of assignments, absences, and need for conferences with the special educator. (CL)

Adolescent male delinquents were administered the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) to examine the relationship between behavioral indices of aggression and hostility. The results of this investigation supported the hypothesis that an inverse relationship exists between hostility on the TAT and ratings of aggressive behavior in adolescent males.…

Recently, an evaluation procedure, behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS), has been developed that attempts to capture performance in multidimensional, behavior-specific terms. Article reviews and evaluates the research on BARS and suggests new directions for future research. (Author/RK)

A study of the Pupil Behavior Rating Scale was made to determine its factor structure and to determine its utility for screening children at the elementary school level to identify potential learning disabilities. (Author)

Comparison of the results of this study with correlations reported by Dahlstrom and Welsh (1960) indicate that the effect of K correction on the intercorrelations among MMPI scales is small compared with that resulting from a change in population. (Author)

A token economy program established for psychiatric patients compared them to a control group on ward behavior, rating scales, participation in instrumental role activities, self care behavior and extra hospital visits. Results indicated improvement on ward behavior rating scales and greater participation in instrumental role activities for…