Measurement of females motives to avoid success were evaluated with students taking part in the Horner's Thematic Apperception Tests. Results of the study show that this testing procedure measures a more complex set of attitudes, expectations and personality characteristics than implied by "motive to avoid success" theory. (Author/EK)

In this study, the performer's anxiety state tended to decrease, as performance level increased during a motor task. (JS)

Based in part on a PhD dissertation (Irwin) submitted to the University of Pennsylvania.

This report describes a quantitative study of subject-indexing as it is being performed by catalogers who are developing an augmented catalog as part of Project Intrex. Learning curves for the average time taken to index technical documents on a per-page basis were derived for a group of indexers. The average indexing times per page were also…

This study investigates the performance of students in a simulation correlated with selected measures of their personality, attitudes toward children and teaching, creativity, and effective reasoning in an attempt to discover variables which identify good and poor solvers of teaching problems. Thirty-six elementary education majors were…

Subjects answered multiple-choice questions at three points in time. They worked alone, then in units of 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 persons, and again alone. Performance on the task was to provide the following information: (1) initial ability level of subjects; (2) the ability of groups of differing size and leadership to utilize their resources; and, (3)…

A study was made of the effects of presenting instructional objectives to students in a graduate computer-managed course. It was expected that the availability of behaviorally stated objectives would reduce test item response latency, increase study time, and reduce state anxiety. Since all subjects were required to reach criterion on each unit of…

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Despite current attention given to the influence of star athletes' biorhythms, the author's studies lead him to the conclusion that biorhythms do not mediate behavior in sport. (Editor)

Students can be helped to learn how to learn by structuring a learning situation that will facilitate an active process of seeking successful solutions to relevant motor problems by matching movements to the characteristics of the performance environment. (MM)

Based on a review of the literature and a questionnaire survey of 21 institutions which have had this type of library, this study examines their development and identifies factors that may have contributed to success or failure. (Author/JAB)

Research suggests that differences in body surface area that occur during adolescence are significantly negatively related to knee, hip, and shoulder flexion-extension range, with flexibility decreasing as body surface area increases, with the relationship strongest for the knee. (MJB)

Analysis of performance levels revealed no significant difference between a control group (which consistently received beans as an incentive to achievement) and an experimental group (which first received bubblegum and then beans), suggesting that the results reflect the group's academic ability rather than their preference for bubblegum over…