SEVENTH GRADE PUPILS IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA WERE INCLUDED IN A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIPS OF APTITUDE AND TRAIT MEASURES TO TEACHER RATINGS OF BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS OF CREATIVITY. ALL 443 CHILDREN HAD AN IQ OF 90 OR GREATER. EIGHT APTITUDE SCORES WERE USED AS MEASURES OF DIVERGENT THINKING IN SEMANTIC CONTENT. A SERIES OF TESTS WAS DEVISED TO…

A PSYCHIATRIST, A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, AND A SOCIAL WORKER EACH MADE INDEPENDENT CASE STUDIES OF EACH OF 300 CHILDREN EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THE SECOND AND FIFTH GRADES. TWO OBJECTIVES WE KEPT IN MIND--(1) MAKING AN ACCURATE PREDICTION OF THE CHILD'S ADJUSTMENT TO SCHOOL AND (2) TRYING TO DEVISE A USEFUL SET OF CRITERIA UPON WHICH CONSISTENT…

The paper describes the Coping Inventory, an observation instrument that provides an index of handicapped children's adaptive behavior by assessing the behaviors and skills they use to meet their own needs and adapt to the demands of their environment. Coping is defined as an active, adaptive process of using strategies to manage one's world.…

The Pupil Information Book is designed to obtain information on children. The booklet is divided into three sections. The first section contains 26 items that ask the teacher for demographic information on the child. Section 2 consists of 27 statements requiring the teacher to rate the child's independence, leadership, competition, cooperation,…

The purpose of this study was to find out whether systematic evaluation feedback to teachers would result in: (1) development of more favorable attitudes toward evaluation, as measured by Teacher Attitudes Toward Evaluation (TATE), and increased teacher use of a variety of curricula and materials, (2) greater correspondence between teachers'…

In this study designed to compare the relative pacifying properties of horizontal and vertical rocking, 13 infants (mean age--58 days) were each tested on two subsequent days. The rocking device was a cradle that could be manipulated to produce side-to-side rocking similar to a commercial cradle or up-and-down rocking. In its up-and-down mode, the…

From a population of 130 boys between 7 and 14 years of age who had been clinically diagnosed as aggressive, hyperactive, or withdrawn, 32, 31, and 32 Ss, respectively, were randomly selected and administered the Quay Behavior Problem Checklist and the Devereux Elementary School Behavior Rating Scale during the 1971-1972 academic year. A…

In a single questionnaire, students reported their ideal frequency of occurrence (I-scores) for common teaching behaviors, the observed frequency of occurrence (0-scores), their evaluation of an "outstanding" to "poor" scale for each behavior expressed as a teaching attribute (E-score), and their overall evaluation of the…

This Behavior Check List for Teachers and Parents, which was used in Project C.H.I.L.D., is comprised of 20 questions about childrens' behavior. For each of the questions, two opposite ways that a child could behave are provided. (For related document, see TM 003 096.) (DB)

Presented in booklet and chart form is the Behavioral Characteristics Progression (BCP), part of the Santa Cruz Special Education Management Project, consisting of 2400 observable traits grouped into 50 behavioral strands. The BCP is seen to be a nonstandardized criterion referenced tool which replaces conventional age and disability labels with…

Both assessment and remediation of primary and secondary behavioral handicaps to learning are discussed, and a classification of behavior styles detrimental to learning, based upon observation of the child's behavior in learning situations, is presented. Primary learning-handicaps are defined as aspects of impairment of temperament which are in…

The author explores some germane implications of cognitive consistency theory. An "affective-cognitive consistency" theory, which specifies the relationship between the affective and cognitive components of the attitude structure, was taken as the theoretical basis of this study. The theory suggests that by knowing what a person values, it should…

The Wray Scale presented is designed to measure 15 behavior symptoms and their opposites which seem indicative of characteristics that can be observed in early childhood and followed as the child develops. Between each characteristic and its opposite are five gradations. Each child is checked to indicate where he stands on each pair of…

The sixth document in an eight-part series on a task-based management system for special education programs presents the Behavioral Characteristics Progression, a listing of 1,800 behavioral characteristics of mentally and behaviorally handicapped pupils which have been grouped into 45 categories of behavior called behavior strands. Behavior…

Eight rating scales for evaluating cartographic technicians are provided. The Scales measure seven characteristics considered to be important aspects of job performance as well as overall job performance. In addition, five different levels of performance are given for rating total job performance and effectiveness as a work-group member. The…