The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between field dependence-independence as measured by the RFT (Rod and Frame Test) and management style as measured by a number of questionnaire and situational instruments. (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.…

The problem of this investigation was to ascertain the relative effects of two teaching strategies, discovery and expository (telling), on the learning of economic concepts by first grade students, as measured by a criterion test instrument. (Author)

This study proposed to formulate an instrument to help the adolescent make a self-evaluation, and to acquire some self-understanding. (Author)

This study, in which adult Navaho interviewers recorded conversations with Navaho children, involved the analysis of Navaho lexicon and spelling. Computer processing made it possible to base the study on the vocabulary of these young Navaho. (Author/RK)

This article reports a comparative study of teacher acceptance of two kinds of testing reports that were generated for Form A of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills at the fourth-grade level. (Editor)

Described is a method to assist developers of mathematics programs to make formative evaluations. The method involves periodic achievement testing via item sampling. Details of item construction, periodic testing, and profile construction are given in a discussion of how this method was applied to modify a sixth-grade mathematics program. (JP)

The purpose of the study was to investigate the attitudes and practices toward drugs by users and nonusers at Queensborough Community College and the relationship of these attitudes and practices to selected psychosocial factors. (Author)

The purposes of the present study were to explore some of the characteristics which faculty members ascribe to colleagues whom they regard as effective teachers and to develop scales for measuring those characteristics. (Author)

This paper develops theory and methods for the application of the Bayesian Model II method to the estimation of binomial proportions and demonstrates its application to educational data. (Author/RK)

Results of this study suggest that certain kinds of treatment differences may be better uncovered by viewing test data in a repeated measures format. (Author/MB)

Study investigated (1) whether there is consensus among test writers in identification of important segments of a prose passage, and (2) the characteristics of the prose segments chosen as important. (Authors/MB)

Author attempted to find out how the secondary (grammar) school system in one of the twelve States of the Nigerian Federation is coping with the problem of socio-cultural change of which students' indiscipline is but one manifestation. (Author/RK)

Comments on an article by Nelms and Pentecoste in which the authors argue, based on their research, that there is a self-perpetuating subculture of the unemployed in the Black community. Disagrees with the study's methodology, especially with the means of assigning individuals to the study sample sets. (AOS)