The Course Attitude Questionnaire (CAQ) has been administered 100,000 times in 3,500 classes at the Pennsylvania State University since 1964 with extensive use in modified form at other institutions. The purpose of this research was to investigate the reliability and internal validity of the CAQ and the temporal stability of its original factor…

A doctoral dissertation study was made to investigate the effects of context and size of step to meaningful learning and retention in a linear instructional program, developed in accordance with the RULEG system, for 5th grade pupils. Among the variables explored were: (1) the mean number of acquisition errors; (2) the mean time required to…

An instrument to measure various aspects of children's character, including self-esteem, altruism, and integrity or responsibility was developed. The 48-item test was given to 111 4- and 5-year-old Hawaiian children. Test reliability and factor structures were determined. The three factors are discussed. Further development is continuing;…

This is one of a series of reports on the National Longitudinal Study of Mathematical Abilities (NLSMA). It is a listing of correlation coefficients where each mathematical scale has been paired with each psychological scale. (See NLSMA Reports Nos. 4-6 for a description of these scales.) Besides each correlation matrix, a rotated factor matrix is…

A study was conducted to scrutinize school factors related to dropouts at the secondary level. One senior secondary school comprised the sample for the study. Telephone interviews were conducted with the dropouts; these interviews were loosely structured. and the interviewer encouraged students to talk generally about their school experiences. The…

The study deals with the experimental application of a structured job analysis procedure to enlisted and officer billets in the Navy, with particular reference to its potential use in relating naval compensation for billet incumbents to compensation for civilian jobs with similar characteristics, and in assessing its utility for allocating naval…

In this study of enrollment patterning in colleges of the Metropolitan Junior College District, major examination is undertaken of the impact of selected quantitative and qualitative factors on enrollment distribution in regional community colleges. This investigation is based upon an educational planning model derived from the theoretical…

Progress made to date in efforts to lay the groundwork for establishing meaningful and on-going procedures for the assessment of the performance of educational systems in New York is reported. The need for educational performance indicators is that indicators would provide a series of measures to show how well educational systems are performing,…

Grades of 116 law school students were obtained from transcripts, along with LSAT, Writing Ability and Background scores. The grades were factored, and an analysis of the goodness of fit of one- through four-factor systems indicated that the system of grades was essentially one factor in nature. A plot of factor loadings for the various courses…

This review of factor analyses in research concerned with personality and interest measurement is presented in two main sections. Part I contains the reviews of the analyses, for each of which the following information is provided: (1) the full reference to the article describing the analysis and to the source of the data used if the data were…

The primary objectives of this paper are pedagogical: to provide a reliable semi-subjective transformation procedure that might be used without difficulty by beginning students in factor analysis; to clarify and extend the existing knowledge of oblique transformations in general; and to provide a brief but meaningful explication of the general…

To determine the nature of common professional education competencies of community college vocational teachers, 160 teachers from four western states and from program areas of agriculture, health, home economics, and service occupations were administered a professional education competency questionnaire. Analysis of data revealed that there was no…

The first three levels of the taxonomy in the affective domain guided the development of two inventories--the Pennsylvania Inventory of Cultural Appreciations (PICA) for 11th graders and Things People Do (TPD) for 5th graders--to measure appreciation of human accomplishments in seven areas: politics, sciences, sports, literature, visual arts,…

The logical structure of the Campbell and Fiske multitrait-multimethod approach is applied to the problem of studying growth and its determinants. The resulting model is a special case of Joreskog's general model for the analysis of covariance structures. The relationships of traditional psychometric formulations to this model are detailed.…

An exact multivariate analysis for troublesome repeated measures designs has been described by Bock and programmed by Finn. The method is applied to digit span from an actual experiment involving first-grade pupils in an inner-city school and a suburban school in Canada. The repeated measures are first transformed by an orthogonal matrix derived…