The purpose of this paper is to enumerate a series of security steps that might be taken by those individuals or organizations that are contemplating Web-based tests and performance assessments. From a security viewpoint, much of what goes on with Web-based transactions is similar to other general computer activity, but the recommendations focus…

This paper studied how individual qualitative researchers perceive that their research procedures and perspectives have been influenced by the adoption of computer assisted qualitative data software. The study focused on Nud*Ist software (non-numerical Unstructured Data; Indexing, Searching, and Theorizing). The seven participants ranged from new…

Basic questions about the evaluation of professional development efforts are explored, including the nature and purposes of evaluation, the critical levels of professional development evaluation, and the difference between evidence and proof in evaluation. Evaluation, which is defined as the systematic investigation of merit or worth, can be…

This study had two purposes: first, to determine whether there exists a relationship between sex, family structure, power structure in the family of orientation, or social class and the kind of marriage role expectations of adolescents and to determine if those expectations are equalitarian. (Author/RK)

The present research deals with the PRP effect as it occurs in a task involving response uncertainty that must be resolved on the basis of a decoding of each signal. (Author)

The purpose of the present study was to determine the ability organisation for adults of various ages through a hierarchial factor analysis of WAIS subtest intercorrelations for subjects from early adulthood through old age. (Author)

Three tests of divergent thinking were administered, along with Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices Test, to two matched groups of 10- to 11 year old school children in untimed "game like' and untimed "test like' conditions. (Editor)

Article describes a generalized data service system that incorporates many scanning applications. (Author)

Present study investigated the relationship between science achievement level and cognitive styles using a categorization instrument developed by Kagan and Moss. (Author)

Fifty feminists and 50 control subjects were tested as to attitudes about, and involvement in the women's movement. Externality was shown to be related to involvement. (DM)

A direct induction of mood was employed to determine the role of affect in self-gratification. (Authors)

Experiment was designed to isolate the incentive properties of uncertainty reduction (information) from those of material reward value and vaiety in a binary, competitive reward situation. (Author)

Study investigates the adequacy of predicting differential value systems of college students from their American College Test (ACT) scores. (Author)

A detailed study of university and provincial records was undertaken to determine whether or not the low rates of suicide at the University of Alberta might have resulted from incomplete reporting. (Authors/CB)

Shows how social position may influence preference toward risk, and points out the value of social perspective in developing theories of decision-making involving risk. (DM)