Examined the generalizability of the Bannatyne Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) profile of learning disabled children to Mexican-American children (N=64). Analysis suggested that learning disabled Mexican-American children were not characterized by Spatial > Conceptual > Sequential patterns as predicted by Bannatyne.…

Assessed the degree to which components of test-taking strategies, covert self-statements, and subjective anxiety during an exam provide increments in prediction of test performance of undergraduates (N=72). Results showed that only test-taking strategies provided a significant increment to multiple-choice and essay test performance but not math…

Assessment procedures for school principals need to be valid, reliable, and utilitarian. They should emphasize the humane elements of the school setting, and they should reflect a concern for a safe school environment. Breaking these requirements into component parts allows the development of five-point Likert scales teachers may use to assess…

This report presents district- and college-level Management Information System (MIS) baseline information for two fiscal year periods 1997-98 and 1998-99 specific to the systemwide Partnership for Excellence performance goals. The primary purpose of this report is to feed back data contained in the MIS on district and college performance related…

The taxonomy outlined in this paper provides a framework for the classification of performance objectives. The taxonomy has three levels: (1) demonstration of cognitive mastery; (2) demonstration of a task in isolation; and (3) demonstration of a task in context. As one moves up the taxonomy, the student's performance requires a longer period of…

Interactions and relationships involving goal attributes and goal types were examined to supplement previous studies of goal types alone. In previous studies, goal attributes such as positive-based incentive values had been found to be higher for intrinsic goals, mastery goals, and more difficult goals. Intrinsic goals and mastery goals were more…

Using data from the 10th grade Washington Assessment of Student Learning, researchers selected 26 high schools across the state of Washington that had made greater gains in school improvement than other schools serving similar populations of students. Interviews were held with the principals of these schools and with 13 comparison schools that had…

The research examines the hypothesis that predictive validity will be greater for a test given under stress instructions than for a test given under relax instructions. (Author)

Describes some major findings from two national surveys to determine what factors most influence academic achievement. Findings indicate, in part, that the more instruction a child gets the more he learns, home and community play a more influential role in student reading than do schools, and that schools have little success in closing the…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of competition on the level of schizophrenic thought disorder by having groups of schizophrenics perform a task under competitive and noncompetitive conditions. (Author)

Data from 192 eighth graders who had a mathematics lesson and success/failure treatment were analyzed. Results on measures of mathematics performance and mathematics test anxiety were not significant. Analysis of covariance with intelligence as a covariate indicated that test anxiety was marginally significant in mathematics learning. (MS)

The results of this study suggest that both social class and race affect the attributional patterns associated with these variables. If it is assumed that teachers' perceptions of children's perception of their performance are another source of interpersonal expectancies, then attribution theory provides a useful framework for the investigation of…

It was concluded that, at best, self-presentation effects are weak and unobserved by the current investigators (Beta error), or at worst the result of extraneous sources of variation. (Author)