The Vocational Instruction, Training and Assessment (VITA) Project conducted a study to determine whether a battery of tests used with a sample of handicapped students enrolled in vocational education program(s) could aid in predicting success in vocational training. Procedures, instruments, and student samples were selected to provide data on (1)…

To identify the early precursors of interest or disinterest in mathematics, this study focused on the mathematical attitudes, aptitude, and achievement of males and females in grades 3-6. Some general personality factors which might affect participation were also examined. The results indicate that sex differences in attitudes are evident as early…

Six experimental approaches to the problems of setting cutoff scores and choosing proper test length are briefly mentioned. Most of these methods share the premise that a test is a random sample of items, from a domain associated with a carefully specified objective. Each item is independent and is scored zero or one, with no provision for…

Three distinct theories can be set forth for viewing intelligence: a "super-intellect theory" associated with the belief in innate ideas; a sensualistic theory that posits no intellectual role beyond synthesizing of sense-data; and a concept of intelligence as a power to abstract, judge, and reason. Many chronic and current educational…

THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONS COMPUTED FROM MEASURES OF APTITUDE, PERSONALITY TRAITS, VOCATIONAL INTEREST, AND HIGH SCHOOL RANK WOULD SEPARATE FRESHMAN MALE STUDENTS INTO CURRICULUM AND ACADEMIC SUCCESS GROUPS. THE HYPOTHESES CONCERNED AGRICULTURE STUDENTS GRADUATED IN SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRAMS,…

A STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE WHETHER DIFFERENCES EXISTED WITH RESPECT TO STUDENT ATTITUDE TOWARD THEIR TEACHER, FEELINGS ABOUT SCHOOL WORK PROBLEMS, AND ACADEMIC APTITUDE BETWEEN VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENTS IN WHICH TEACHER MORALE WAS HIGH AND THOSE IN WHICH TEACHER MORALE WAS LOW. THE TEACHER SAMPLE INCLUDED 21 WITH THE HIGHEST…

The purpose of this study was to further examine the reliability of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), a new instrument to measure hearing vocabulary so that a student's verbal intelligence may be inferred. A group testing procedure was utilized by reproducing the PPVT plates on 35 millimeter transparent slides and projecting them onto a…

This document examines the implications of the Phase II report specifically for observation variables that might be used in future Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study (BTES) research, focusing on those variables and patterns of variables that showed the strongest and most consistent relationships with student learning in the Phase II report. The…

This report collects together three presentations given by the author at scientific and professional meetings during the Spring of 1977. The first discusses present views of the variety and complexity of individual differences among human beings in the context of current research on cognitive processing in learning and instruction. The second…

Two important factors in the development of the Caribbean University are the cultural domination of the metropolitan countries to which they were attached, and the sharp divergence, in respect to financing, between the American model in Puerto Rico on the one hand and the British model in the University of the West Indies on the other. Against…

This study was undertaken to investigate the relative effectiveness of two instructional options offered at City High School, Iowa City. Students enrolled in algebra and geometry courses at this school may elect to participate in a self-paced Program using learning packets, pretests and posttests developed by the faculty, or to be taught by…

The present report is one in a series which profiles the University of Washington (UW) entering freshman class in terms of performance on the several tests making up the Washington Pre-College Testing Program's battery. As in earlier years, percentile charts for male and female entrants as well as for the total tested group, comprising 79 percent…

This study used a self-instructional geography unit in 20 seventh-grade classes to assess the effects of a mastery learning procedure and aptitude upon learning, retention and time spent on studying the unit. It was found that differences between aptitude levels were increased rather than diminished when self-instructional materials were used.…

Relationships between reading achievement and perceptual skills as measured by selected subtests of the Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude were investigated in a sample of 73 second graders. Verbal opposites, visual memory for designs, and visual attention span for letters were significantly correlated with both word meaning and vocabulary…

This study attempted to clarify the relationship between drug involvement and academic accomplishments. Unlike other studies, it was controlled for aptitude and sex. In a structured interview, the College Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ) was administered to 77 male and 67 female student subjects. Based on the CBQ results three groups were identified:…