"The purpose of an occupational education system is to prepare individuals to work and live successfully in the total community environment.... This paper describes how the process of programmed instruction may be used in the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of this type of occupational education system. (Author)

This study analyzed a set of items dealing with pressures faced by teachers. (Author)

This paper describes a variety of confirmatory factor analysis models that provide improved tests of multitrait-multimethod matrices, and compares three different approaches (the original Campbell-Fiske guidelines, an analysis of variance model, and confirmatory factor analysis models). (PN)

This research study investigated children's attitudes towards "home" or "personal" computers. Subjects were 106 children from a one-day computer camp, who had had no previous experience with computers at home. The choosing and measuring of attitude dimensions is explained, and results indicate children's multidimensional attitude towards…

Either Bartlett's chi-square test of sphericity or Steiger's chi-square test can be used to test the significance of a correlation matrix to determine the appropriateness of factor analysis. They were evaluated using computer-generated correlation matrices. Steiger's test is recommended due to its increased power and computational simplicity.…

Presents the results of a study undertaken to examine the cognitive styles of students in the Library Science/Educational Technology program at the University of North Carolina. The implications of the study for the education of library science students are enumerated. Three tables and a reference list are included. (JL)

The factor structure of the Quay-Peterson Behavior Problem Checklist was investigated across racial backgrounds of 358 American children in order to determine the instrument's efficacy in measuring personality dimensions in racially different exceptional children. (Author/MP)

Results are reported from a factor analytic investigation of responses to the Child's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory by comparable samples of children living in divorced and married families. (MP)

Examines the operationalization of marital quality indices used as dependent variables and the functioning and construction of marital quality variables. Presents both semantic and empirical criteria to judge the development of a marital quality index and a Quality Marriage Index (QMI) based on the introduced criteria. (Author/RC)

Uses factor analysis of occupational skill characteristics to derive cognitive and noncognitive dimensions of occupational differentiation. The dimensions are discussed in relation to occupational labor theories. Regression analyses of these dimensions suggest that complexity is the most important determinant of socioeconomic status and prestige.…

The structure of the Group Embedded-Figures Test was examined. Data from 173 females and 93 males were subjected to Johnson's complete-linkage cluster analysis and principal components analysis. The results showed the importance of simple form type, especially Form E, the cube, and of item position. (Author/RD)

The Serlin-Kaiser procedure is used to complete a principal components solution for scoring weights for all options of a given item. Coefficient alpha is maximized for a given multiple choice test. (Author/GK)