A method for obtaining teacher ratings from incomplete student ranking data is presented. The procedure involves finding the scores for the teachers on the first principal component of a student intercorrelation matrix, where the missing data are supplied by least squares. (Author)

The PM statistical index, which indicates the probability that a person will belong to a particular clinical class, is described. The coefficient is similar to the G index but is easier to compute. An empirical example is presented. (JKS)

To determine how sex role attitudes are formed, and to explain the nature of these attitudes, the article reviews research on sex role attitudes. Topics discussed include hypotheses and findings of major research studies, creation of an attitude model based upon previous research, and the growth of ideological egalitarianism. (DB)

Discusses young children's conceptions of status and role based on sociolinguistic analyses of spontaneous role play. Links developmental features of social knowledge to contextual features of children's interactive experiences. (Author/CK)

This laboratory experiment was designed for undergraduate students. It demonstrates the use of simplex optimization in a simple and straightforward manner. (BB)

Critiques Lawrence Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Instrument and evaluates reliability and validity data available on the instrument. Concludes that available data do not support the reliability and validity of the instrument and that further research is necessary. Available from: Department of Social Science Education, University of Georgia, Athens,…

The effects of "good" and "poor" peer models on the task performance of 45 chronic schizophrenic males were investigated. The findings revealed that patients who viewed a good peer model did significantly better on a subsequent task then patients who viewed either a peer model or no model. (Editor)

The present study was designed to assess the cortical concomitants of selective mode-specific attention in subjects differing in the capacity for sustained attentional involvement. (Editor)

Teachers in all areas often get ideas that are important and worth testing. Few go so far as to do a research study, but here is one who did--and tells how it turned out. (Editor)

Dawson introduces three articles which debate merits of research techniques in undergraduate economic education. William E. Becker criticizes John C. Soper's models, multicollinearity argument, and student incentives in a research project; Soper replies; Robert Highsmith critically analyzes strengths and weaknesses of each argument. (AV)

Data replicate and extend research on differences in physiological patterning between psychopaths and control subjects and provide new information on patterning with instructions and learned specificity with biofeedback. (Author/RK)

The comparative psychological well-being of transsexual females who sought sexual reassignment surgery to harmonize their anatomy with their male gender was investigated. (Editor)

As part of a search for a unified theory of attention, observers detected letters in streams of digits under conditions of divided or selective attention for a period of 10 hours. The practice effects on the detectability of targets and on the response criteria used by observers were evaluated. (Editor/RK)

Recent research has suggested that the use of the shift effect as a measure of encoding is critically dependent upon its properties as a psychological phenomenon. Examines this interrelation in light of data from a simple experiment. (Author/RK)

This article gives a preliminary analysis of the "Survey of Canadian English," which was conducted across Canada in 1972. The article deals with various problems with a view to facilitating a more exhaustive evaluation of the data stored at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. (Text is in German.) (Author/CFM)