The aims of this paper are to affirm the importance of developing sequential models of psychological process-particularly of such complex psychological phenomena of prime concern to theory and application as learning, problem solving, and creativity-and to argue that factor analysis has delineated component processes for these sequential models.…

A principal components analysis was conducted to determine whether the measures of essays made by the computer could be grouped into factors. Six factors (fluency, spelling, diction, sentence structure, punctuation, and paragraphing) were identified. (Author)

The associations from phoneme to grapheme appeared to be considerably easier than the associations from grapheme to phoneme. (Authors)

An investigation of certain chance and systematic factors affecting the grades assigned by 17 law school professors to the answers of 79 law students to a typical essay question. (Authors/MB)

Research examined the conception of achievement motivation as a unitary construct. (Author)

Factor analyses of male and female college students' retrospective responses on the Child's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory produced factor matrices very similar among themselves and also quite similar to factors obtained in previous studies. (Authors/MB)

Investigates selected reading readiness tests and points out that they measure a single generalized factor of readiness. The subtest concerning alphabet letter names provides the best predictor of successful reading in the tests examined. Bibliography. (RW)

Aim of the study is to assess empirically the interrelationships among some of Piaget's and Gesell's behavioral tasks. (Author)

Three methods of assessing college environment (student perceptions, student self-reports, and objective institutional data) were compared by use of multimethod factor analysis, a new technique which removes method variance by focusing on correlations between rather than within methods of measurement. (CK)