This article describes a study conducted to determine what differences, if any, exist between the traditional emergent values that are held by different school age groups and the direction and amount of those differences. (Author)

The major premise of the current study is that subjects with high self-esteem scores plus high Marlowe-Crowne scores should show behavior patterns similar to those of low self-esteem subjects. (Author)

Article is addressed to the differential susceptibility of Quantitative Comparisons, Data Sufficiency, and Regular Mathematics aptitude test items to an intensive program of short term instruction. Of secondary interest is the relative susceptibility of geometry and nongeometry items within these three formats. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether a "natural" four-alternative multiple choice item represents the same psychological task as a five-choice item rescored as a four-choice item. (Author)

Purpose of study was to investigate the "novelty effect" hypothesis by investigating the relationship of student responses on an attitude survey with the number of personalized courses they were taking concurrently. (Author)

A cross-sectional, stratified random sample of 1,891 male and female adolescents (age range from 12 years 6 months to 17 years 6 months) was tested in 1970 with the Grades 9-12 form of the Primary Mental Abilities test. (Editor)

This study compared more than 3400 MMPIs obtained from pschiatric in-patients in public mental health facilities with mental status and preadmission descriptor ratings to derive empirical correlates of profiles clustered primarily by two-point high codes. (Author)

The demands of black students for black staff, black student organizations, and the study of African languages are signs of separation that trouble not only many white faculty but also blacks who think of themselves as liberals. This paper examines the attitudes of black faculty in white colleges toward student demands. (DM)

Compares the extent and consistency of civil liberties support in a Nebraska college sample with that in University of California at Berkeley. (DM)

A test for use as a preliminary screening device for learning difficulties of first graders had results which indicated a strong relationship between students' scores on the test and teachers' year-end evaluation of students' academic progress. (Author/KM)

Research supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the University of Texas at Austin. (DD)

Analysis indicates that both 5 and 7-year-old children are capable of distinguishing between anomalous and meaningful sentences although 7-year-olds demonstrate greater awareness of selection restriction rules. (Authors)

Goal of this study was to obtain information pertaining to what is acquired when children gain the ability to reproduce a diagonal pattern. (Authors/CB)

Special cases of the factor analysis model are developed for four selection situations. Methods are suggested whereby parameters in each case can be estimated using a maximum likelihood procedure recently developed by Joreskog. (Author)