The research described in this article reports the results of a study designed to evaluate the relationship among object-oriented (OO) computer programming task performance and a student's (1) theoretical value belief, (2) cognitive ability, and (3) personality. The results of this study do not support the assertion that cognitive ability is a…

Correlations between predicted averages and actual grades in four universities were compared with those based on current data. A loss on the average of .10 occured in the accuracy of the correlation. The author recommends that prediction studies should not be done every year but on an as-needed basis. (Author)

In an effort to enlarge the focus on teacher effectiveness to include environmental factors outside the classroom, this report investigated (1) the relationship between supervisors' ratings of teacher effectiveness and the ability of teacher interns to make instructional decisions conforming to the school's value and organizational structures and…

Path analysis was used on survey responses of 1106 persons age 50 or over. Stage one variables were recent retirement, recent widowhood or divorce, age, and sex. Stage two variables included self-rated health, functional health, health trend, and self-rated income adequacy. It was expected that these variables might directly affect morale or…

The capability of 14 interpersonal dimensions to predict dyadic communication contexts was investigated in this study. Friend, acquaintance, co-worker, and family contexts were examined. The interpersonal valence construct, based on a coactive or mutual-causal paradigm, encompasses traditional source-valence components (credibility, power,…

Looks at relationship between recovery (symptom reduction) from serious psychiatric disorder and patient-held and therapist-held expectations for recovery. Objective measures of prognostic expectations were taken from patients upon hospital admission and from therapists shortly thereafter. Found that therapists', but not patients', expectations…

Certain subtests of the WISC, ITPA, and Stanford-Binet are used as measures of analogical reasoning. Because several facts suggested that the form of analogy used on these subtests does not require subjects to engage in true analogical reasoning, the validity of these subtests as measures of analogical reasoning was investigated. (Author)

Each item of the Rotter Locus of Control Scale and 28 of the 80 items of the Piers-Harris Children's Self Concept Scale were revised because of syntax or vocabulary that were considered to be problematic for deaf adolescents. The original and modified forms of each instrument were administered to 90 deaf adolescents from four residential schools.…

Investigating the relationship between students' daily attendance and mathematics classroom performance, the study was conducted using 23 American Indian adult students enrolled in Remedial Mathematics 100 at the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute from September 1981 through November 1981. Classroom attendance was recorded on a daily basis…

Kenneth Burke's concepts of rhetoric, dramatism, terministic screens (perceptual filters), and identification are used in this paper to justify and direct intercultural communication research. Three intercultural methodologies--cultural variable analysis, componential analysis, and ethnomethodology--are examined in the paper using these concepts.…

Clinical judgement involves a search for internal consistency which can be validated by predicting responses within a protocol, or internally. Internal predictive validity assumes that one source of consistency is the individual--an assumption that was tested in a prediction task using the sentence completion test (SCT). Artificial protocols…

Relationships between kindergarteners' symbolic functioning in free play, selected demographic variables (sex, age, and socioeconomic status), and the children's ability to generate isolated written words were investigated. Sixty-five kindergarteners (37 male, 28 female) were tested and observed in their classes over a 4-week period. Play was…

In assessing educational equity among school districts, according to the authors, researchers should control for differences across districts in the prices of educational inputs. This paper tests a suggested index for one educational input, teacher salaries. The suggested teacher-salary index, based on a supply-and-demand model using 12 demand and…

Researchers attempted to predict the defeat of school board incumbents, using variables which had already been shown to account for incumbent defeat in statistical analyses performed after board elections in many different states. A global model was constructed based on 20 social, economic, and political variables as well as on school districts'…

A study examined whether editorial involvement of magazine editors could be predicted by various personal and professional characteristics. Questionnaires completed by 170 editors of magazines elicited information about the extent of their involvement in editorial operations and their personal and professional characteristics, including age, sex,…