The Management Decision Making Matrix establishes the basis for the development and revision of a district management philosophy, procedures, job descriptions, as well as group and individual goals and objectives. It provides the management team with the basis for identifying decision making areas and assessing appropriate degrees of involvement.…

Attempts to retain the gains that have been made and recapture desirable aspects of the IOA technique that may have been lost over the years. Describes seven major assumptions on which the technique is based. The IOA reveals the relative level of achievement of each of the instructional objectives by individual students as well as by groups of…

Types of presentations for quantitative data are defined and illustrated, and their attributes are discussed with recommendations of formats for specific purposes. (Author/STS)

The author, a principal at Tustin Memorial School in California, introduced a Democratic Decision-Making System, a teacher-developed, participatory management model for running a school. He discusses why he prefers this system and how to go about implementing it. (Author/RK)

Evaluates data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) that indicate average annual salaries paid to male and female administrators in institutions of higher education during the 1976-77 school year. (Author/RK)

Research by Posner and Mitchell (1967) was used to investigate levels of noise processing in testing subjects' ability to "gate out" the processing of irrelevant and unwanted material. Three experiments are reported in which subjects had to judge whether two letters were the "same" or "different". Noise elements were included to test attention…

Explores the association between the relatively passive, sitting meditation and absorption and anxiety using a cross-sectional design. (Author/RK)

The instigative aggression paradigm, in which male and female subjects instructed a female confederate which shock to set for an opponent in a competitive reaction time task, was employed. Results were discussed in terms of violation of task role and sex role expectations. (Editor/RL)

Examines certain theoretical explanations of attention disorders in chronic nonparanoid schizophrenics that have been presented by several authors in the context of interference theory. Attempts to clarify divergencies in their theoretical assumptions by replicating and extending their research findings. (Author/RK)

Older people seem to have difficulty learning new materials, perhaps because it takes them longer to retrieve relevant encoding information from memory. To assess the effects of age on speed of retrieval, 60 health males from 25 to 74 were shown pictures of common objects they were name aloud as quickly as possible. (Editor)

Hypothesis refining is the combining of two separate rules (conjunctive concept), the combination of which is more accurate than either rule alone. Each of 70 subjects was reinforced independently for either rule alone or their combination under one and only one of seven reinforcement conditions. Tests Verplanck's paradigm, a model for studying…

Three experiments contrasted subjects' memory for verbal and figural displays. Data are discussed in terms of a multiple coding model, which is suggested as a more fruitful approach than single-code models such as those proposed by Pylyshyn or Anderson and Bower. (Editor/RK)

Response latency (RL), accuracy, and confidence data were obtained from six subjects, each tested for 20 experimental sessions in a long-term recognition memory paradigm. Based on signal detection theory assumptions, functions were derived that described the relationship between RL and the separation of test item and criterion along a theoretical…

In a factorial experiment, 90 male and 90 female subjects were given (a) either instructions to increase heart rate (HR), decrease HR, or no instructions to change their HR; (b) either true biofeedback, false biofeedback, or no biofeedback; and (c) either instructions concerning cognitions to help them change HR or no instructions concerning…

The influence of stimulus number and familiarity on judged duration were investigated. Results showed that the number of stimulus elements presented within a given interval affected its perceived duration, although the familiarity of those elements (as defined herein) did not. (Editor/RK)