TO DETERMINE WHETHER STUDENTS OF HIGH AND LOW ABILITY DIFFER IN CREATIVITY, STUDENTS IN GENERAL COLLEGE (GC) SPEECH AND LOGIC CLASSES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA WERE COMPARED WITH SPEECH AND LOGIC STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS (CLA). GC STUDENTS HAVE A MEAN IQ OF 105-110, AND AN AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOL RANK AT THE 25TH PERCENTILE WHILE…

JOINTLY CONSIDERING THE FACTORS OF SAMPLE SIZE (N-10 TO N-1000) AND THE STANDARD DEVIATION OF THE CRITERION MEASURE (SD-1 TO SD-25), A TABLE SHOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TREATMENTS NEEDED FOR STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE AT THE .05 LEVEL. THUS, IF THE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER HAS APPROPRIATE INFORMATION ON PAST PERFORMANCE, HE CAN CONSULT THE TABLE TO…

QUESTIONNAIRES WERE SENT TO A 10 PERCENT SAMPLE OF INCONSISTENT VOTERS IN TWO OREGON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS WHO HAD NOT VOTED IN A PREVIOUS, UNSUCCESSFUL SCHOOL BUDGET ELECTION, BUT WHO HAD VOTED IN A SUBSEQUENT SUCCESSFUL ELECTION. DESPITE DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE DISTRICTS IN LEVEL OF SCHOOLING COMPLETED, OCCUPATION, INCOME, PERIOD…

THE FEASIBILITY AND PRACTICABILITY OF USING A DIGITAL COMPUTER (IBM 1620) TO GRADE PHYSICS LABORATORY REPORTS WAS INVESTIGATED. IN ORDER TO TEST THE VALUE OF USING THE COMPUTER, TWO TYPES OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS WERE WRITTEN FOR EACH OF FOUR EXPERIMENTS. ONE PROGRAM COMPLETELY GRADED THE REPORTS BY ENTERING THE STUDENT'S DATA AND HIS CALCULATED…

During a series of operational field experiments to study the information seeking behavior of a sample of medical researchers, a subject reported that, based on his knowledge of information sources at that point it would be less costly to perform an experiment than to attempt to retrieve the piece of information he needed. A professional…

The purpose of the study reported here was to do an automata-theoretical and experimental investigation of the learning of the syntax and semantics of a second natural language. The main thrust of the work was to ask what kind of automaton a person can become. Various kinds of automata were considered, predictions were made from them, and these…

The effects of task complexity and vicarious reward upon children's ability to learn a substantial educational task through modeling were investigated. After observing a models performance, all subjects (elementary school students) were offered direct reward for matching responses. Accuracy of imitative learning was inversely related to task…

Subjects for this study were women college students who differed in anxiety proneness. The subjects were selected on the basis of extreme scores on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory . Stress was induced by feedback concerning performance on a mathematical learning task which was presented by an IBM 1500 computer-assisted instruction (CAI) system.…

Researchers have long been aware that "pretest sensitization" is a potential threat to the external validity of experimental studies. Only recently, however, has it been suggested that "posttest sensitization" might also limit the generalizability of results. This latter phenomenon would exist to the extent that the effects of…

This revised material replaces the 1972 edition of "Cable Data" (ED 071 397). This short booklet provides basic data describing cable television in these areas: (1) number and locations of systems, (2) growth and size, (3) ownership and profitability, (4) service and program origination, and (5) two-way and pay-cable experiments. (WCM)

The purposes of the study were to make an analysis of the status of science teachers in the Allen Parish school system (Louisiana) for the 1969-70 school year, to identify the problems of science instruction, and to show a breakdown of laboratory exercises performed by science consultants during an inservice summer session. The first part of the…

Alum Rock School District, San Jose, California, is the only school district to participate in OEO's education voucher experiment. In this speech, the superintendent of that school district describes the district's experience with education vouchers. He describes the experiment design and discusses parental attitudes on the voucher experiment. (JF)

The basic purpose of the present study was to study the effectiveness of using trained peers to lead small process groups in freshman orientation. A sample of 253 freshman students from East Central State College in Ada, Oklahoma, were used for the experiment. The instrument used to determine whether perceptions of the college campus climate…

Forty female subjects were given intermittent options to transmit noncontingent promises of intent to cooperate during the course of a mixed-motive laboratory game. In a 2 x 2 experimental design, a robot target either reciprocated subjects' promise statements or concealed her behavioral intentions, and was either always cooperative or always…

The relationships between the microteaching technique and experiential group meetings of student teachers are discussed. The author concludes that the linking of the two techniques might well prove of great value in the education of teachers. The journal is available from the Circulation Office, 325 9th St., San Francisco, California, 94103.…