AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF CERTAIN VARIATIONS IN METHODOLOGY ON THE ANALYSIS OF EXISTING SETS OF DATA IN THE AREAS OF ABILITY OR INTELLIGENCE AND MOTOR PERFORMANCE OR PHYSICAL FITNESS. USING CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THEORY AND METHODS OF FACTOR ANALYSIS DIFFERENT TREATMENTS OF VARIOUS SETS OF DATA, THREE RELATIVELY NEW MODELS…

The special case of the Piagetian model is discussed in relation to test theory. Problems connected with the construction and analysis of a test based on Piaget and Inhelder's The Child's Construction of Quantities are presented, and related to a method of representing the item discrimination which is consonant with Piagetian theory. Loevinger and…

This study investigated the nature of affective reactions of college students in a real-life testing situation, and the relationship of these affects to causal attributions and perceptions of success or failure. Ninety students responded to questions concerning their emotions after receiving results of an examination and indicated the contribution…

A Monte Carlo study was performed to test under what conditions and to what degree various alternatives would be superior to multiple linear regression (MLR). The criteria used was the mean squared error of prediction of individual scores and the mean squared error of estimation of the regression weights. Populations were simulated containing…

Factor analyses of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) was conducted. The random sample included 100 boys and 100 girls beginning at age four with increments of 6 months up to age 6 1/2. The intercorrelation matrix of the 11 WPPSI subtests at each of the age levels was factor analyzed, and the percent of common,…

A survey of teachers in the province of Alberta was conducted to assess which variables they felt were most important in influencing their decisions to use an educational television (ETV) program with their classes for the first time. Respondents were asked to rate the six following variables as to their influence on the teacher's decision-making…

This report describes a study conducted by the Audio-Visual Media Research Group of the Open University to investigate student attitudes, over time, to the value of radio as a course component. Results of a January 1979 survey using a questionnaire are reported with tables and analyzed according to (1) whether a student had access to a VHF radio…

Data from a previous study concerning the relation between sex-role identity and sex-role attitudes and achievement motivation in females were reanalyzed using two new factor-based scores, Dominant/Assertive and Independent, and one new factor-based score, Caring, derived from the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) masculinity and femininity scores,…

Bargmann's test for examining the statistical significance of simple structure in factor analysis, an extension of the original significance tables, and the application of the significance test to several noted factor analytic findings are described. Using Bargmann's test, only 2 of 25 factor analytic studies reviewed are considered acceptable.…

Swedes in four different age groups (9, 12, 15 and 18 years) judged written words which varied in three dimensions: syntactic category, objective frequency, and polysemy (multiple meaning). The subjects judged ease of comprehension of 24 words in a factorial arrangement. The method used was Thurstone's paired comparisons. A predicted complex…

A partial least squares method is described for estimating parameters of linear structural relation models. This method is an extension of Herman Wold's proposal for estimation parameters without distributional assumptions, using some algorithms worked out by Paul Horst. The method (LISPLS) determines a different number of latent variables from…

The attitudes of Supreme Court justices toward freedom of the press and ways in which their voting patterns affect the press were investigated in a study involving an examination of 235 nonunanimous decisions (G-cases), 199 nonunanimous civil liberties cases (C-cases), and 23 nonunanimous freedom of the press cases (P-cases) decided by the Burger…

THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER COMMON BEHAVIORS COULD BE IDENTIFIED ACROSS OCCUPATIONS TO SERVE AS A BASIS FOR CURRICULUM BUILDING. INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED WITH INCUMBENTS IN 47 AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS AND 36 OCCUPATIONS IN THE METAL FABRICATING INDUSTRY FOR A TOTAL OF 466 INTERVIEWS IN COLORADO AND NEBRASKA. THE INTERVIEW…

TO DETERMINE IF THERE WERE DIFFERENCES IN THE FACTOR STRUCTURE OF BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION DATA OF EXECUTIVES, IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT FACTOR STRUCTURE WOULD BE RELATED TO FUNCTIONAL ASSIGNMENT AND THE EMPHASIS GIVEN THAT FUNCTION BY THE ORGANIZATION. A SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE WAS ADMINISTERED TO 382 LATIN AMERICAN EXECUTIVES. A PRINCIPLE COMPONENT…

Identification of cues on the major factors affecting judgment is discussed in this paper. The advantages and weaknesses of five approaches to identifying, selecting, and defining features of objects or activities to be judged is examined. These features are: (1) logical specification; (2) expert opinion; (3) prespecification and narrowing of a…