It is apparent from current research and professional experience that body image has a strong social basis, but the form of such comparisons is unclear. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine likely forms of the social basis of adolescent body image. This study compares two approaches to the social basis of body image to ask to what extent…

A large battery of various tests of intelligence, scholastic achievement, and short-term memory was administered to some 2,000 white, Negro and Mexican-American pupils in grades 4, 5, and 6 in a largely agricultural school district in the central valley of California. (Author)

This study represents an attempt to examine ways in which anxiety, achievement and affiliation motivation and dogmatism influence the academic performance of undergraduates under structured instructional conditions. Provides evidence for the notion that Ss' personality patterns do influence academic achievement under the conditions described in…

Presents the history of psychometrics in terms of the various investigators who worked in this area; the fields of computer utilization, testing, scaling, factor analysis, and learning theory are examined. (JM)

This study considered the structure of adolescents' interactions with artists and art teachers. (Author/RK)

The present study is an attempt to explore the usefulness of demographic predictors of writing ability. Specifically, it is concerned with delineating the elements involved in writing and to ascertain the effects of achievement, language background, age, sex, social class, etc., on linguistic ability. (Author/RK)

The main aim of this study was to investigate whether repsonse anonymity would affect how school children ranked the importance of values on the Rokeach Value survey. (Author/RK)

The present research was stimulated by three related problems frequently faced in validation research: viable procedures for combining similar jobs in order to assess the validity of various predictors, for assessing groups of jobs represented in previous validity studies, and for assessing the applicability of validity findings between units.…

Authors describe a measurement technique which processes item data so as to indicate logical relationships among items. (HB)

The present experiment was designed to give attention to a potentially important parameter, that of paired-associate task modality. (Author/RK)

Purpose of this study was to examine the nature of correlations among tasks purporting to measure communicative, cognitive, role-taking, and spatial egocentrism in childhood. (Author/CB)

The present study represents an attempt to identify the qualities perceived to be important for male and female applicants for the same job. (Author)

The union and disjunction models for combining individual test marks to yield final grade distributions are outlined and examined empirically in two educational psychology classes. (Authors/CB)

Study pits two competing hypotheses, demand characteristics hypothesis and subject commitment hypothesis, against one another in a laboratory context by manipulating subjects' anonymity. (CB)

The inter-battery factor analysis model for predictive systems appears to offer a useful formalization of these systems and provides some guides for the development of the system. (Author)