Data from a postdictive study of the tests of the Graduate Record Examination and the eight semesters of undergraduate grade averages, each semester's average being computed independently of the rest, are presented. (Editor)

Despite the numerous individual illustrations in the literature showing how the discrimination index may be used to identify items with faults, its overall effectiveness as a measure of item quality, defined in terms of the presence or absence of faults, is not clear. This study investigates its validity. (Author/RK)

A method for reducing multivariate descriptions of college environments to a two-dimensional configuration is briefly described. (Author)

This study is designed to examine the effects of academic performance feedback on self-concept, more operationally refferred to as self-report. (Author)

Presidential address delivered to the Linguistic Society of America at its Annual Meeting, December 28, 1972, Atlanta, Georgia. (DD)

The present experiment compared noun-pair learning, with and without sentence elaboration, on pairs representing all combinations of high and low frequency of usage on the stimulus and response side. (Author)

In order to correlate the two it is proposed to examine both the kinds of contribution that sociolinguistics might make in the study of comparative education, and the light comparative studies in education might throw on apparent anomalies in sociolinguistics research. (Author)

College admissions boards have accepted certain scoring criteria as good indicators of a student's potential success in college, and this study measures the validity of such scoring. (Author/RK)

The present paper called attention to the difference between discrimination among individuals and discrimination among groups and suggested that the intraclass correlation coefficient should be used in the process of item selection whenever one is interested in discrimination among groups. (Author)

Discusses papers delivered at the third triennial congress of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquee held in Copenhagen. Several papers dealt with current work using computers for language analysis and processing. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the study is to build upon previous theory and research on the concept of authority and to relate this knowledge to current practice in the public schools. (Author/RK)

The extent to which performance is a function of interest will be dependent upon (a) the nature of the task per se (e.g., complex vs. simple); (b) the conditions for task specification (e.g., imposed vs. selected); and (c) characteristics of the performer (e.g., high internality vs. low internality). (Author)

Procedure and program here described are designed to assess the reliability of J judges who are assigning N stimuli to one of K categories. (Authors)

Describes administration and analysis of Inventory. Factors obtained from analysis were interpreted as "nonevaluative acceptance psychological insight, and likability. (Author/CJ)