The relationships between measures of anxiety, concerns, and attitude toward teaching and selected personal and academic characteristics of 260 beginning education students were investigated. Relationships were found between these measures and basic academic skills, earliness of decision to enter teaching as a career, relative assurance of…

The relationship between musical aptitude and musical environment in sixth-grade students is studied. Forty-one students from a suburban middle school were administered a 21-item Music Environment questionnaire which determined whether they or their family played a musical instrument, attended symphony, country-western, and/or rock concerts, had…

The advantages and disadvantages of three analytic methods used to analyze experimental data in educational research are discussed. The same hypothetical data set is used with all methods for a direct comparison. The Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) method and its several analogs are collectively labeled OVA methods and are evaluated. Regression…

The research reported contrasted the preregistration characteristics of graduates and non-graduates from the Special Educational Opportunities Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 62 graduates and 433 non-graduates were included in the study sample. (Author/JM)

This pilot study investigated some relationships between tested ability variables and processing parameters obtained from memory search and visual search tasks. The 25 undergraduates who participated had also participated in a previous investigation by Chiang and Atkinson. A battery of traditional ability tests and several film tests were…

A procedure for estimating the degree to which a subtest uniquely contributes to total test performance is presented and discussed. Uniqueness analysis may be appropriately applied to any composite measurement instrument such as a multipart test or a multitest battery to assess the unique contribution of each component to the total test. The…

The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ), a structured job analysis questionnaire that provides for the analysis for individual jobs in terms of 187 job elements, has been found in previous studies to be useful as the basis for predicting the mean test scores of incumbents on a sample of jobs in terms of the nine tests of the General Aptitude…

Determines the validity of students' Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores and high school grade point average (HSGPA) as predictors of freshmen course grades and overall college grade point average (CGPA) at Georgia Southern College. (RC)

Research supported by the Scottish Council for Research in Education.

The type of study proposed by Cronback for studying aptitude-treatment interactions (ATIs) has proved to be disappointing in several respects: it produces ATIs that do not replicate, that are not especially interesting, and that are difficult to use in practice. Glass's meta-analysis methodology, although developed for a different purpose,…

Each of one third of all Pennsylvania public high schools were assessed in 1974, 75 and 76 so that all high school students were assessed during this three-year period. The results indicate that eleventh grade female students displayed a significantly more positive attitude toward work than did the male students when responding to work attitude…

For people directly involved with vocational evaluation, rationale and guidelines are presented for developing individual evaluation plans (IEPs) to meet the needs of handicapped clients. Functions served by the IEP are discussed: (1) master plan of the purposes and objectives of an evaluation; (2) written record of the assessment techniques used,…