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South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. – 1980
For years the issue of class size has been the subject of hundreds of educational research studies. The effects of class size on student achievement, student and teacher attitudes, instructional setting, and total classroom environment have been examined and re-examined. In general, the findings of these studies have been inconclusive, though for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Classroom Environment, Educational Research
Schiefelbein, Ernesto; Simmons, John – 1981
A review of 26 multivariate or "production function" studies provides the basis for this discussion of the determinants of student cognitive achievement in developing countries. The paper describes the studies and reviews the results for each of the major determinants of academic achievement--schooling characteristics, teacher attributes, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Institutional Characteristics, Multivariate Analysis
Isaacs, Larry D. – 1980
Dynamic visual acuity (DVA) is defined as the performer's ability to visually discriminate parts of an object when there is relative motion between the target and the performer. According to research findings, this visual attribute may play a key role in motor-task performance. Researchers have found a significant relationship between DVA and…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Depth Perception, Exercise
Watts, Barbara L. – 1981
Many physiological and psychological processes fluctuate throughout the day in fairly stable, rhythmic patterns. The relationship between individual differences in circadian activity rhythms and a sense of time urgency were explored as well as a number of achievement-related variables. Undergraduates (N=308), whose circadian activity rhythms were…
Descriptors: Achievement, Aspiration, Behavior Patterns, Cultural Influences
Rohrbaugh, John – 1980
Much attention has been directed toward the measurement of organizational effectiveness. A competing values framework was used in a 2-year longitudinal study of 30 local offices of the Employment Service to develop a methodology for monitoring organizational effectiveness. Data were collected from all staff members and office records. Analysis of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Human Resources
Download full textHowell, Jon P.; Dorfman, Peter W. – 1980
The leadership substitutes hypothesis has been used to explain the occasional successes and frequent failures of leadership predictions. Three hypotheses were formulated to test the viability of the leadership substitutes concepts. Questionnaires were administered to hospital managers (N=63) and engineers (N=71). Instrumental and supportive leader…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Interpersonal Relationship
Simon, Karen M. – 1977
The differential activation of self-evaluative reactions to performance attainments on tasks varying on their relevance for subjects' sense of personal adequacy was investigated. All subjects (N=97) spoke extemporaneously on prescribed topics and received the same random sequence of performance scores. The same task was designated as assessing…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Individual Characteristics, Performance Factors, Responses
Mitchell, Terence R.; Green, Stephen G. – 1978
An initial model of the evaluation process in the leadership context is presented in order to consider information processing explanations of behavior in general and attributional analyses in particular. The model is designed to aid those individuals acting in supervisory capacities who must evaluate the performance of subordinates in an…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Employer Employee Relationship, Information Processing
Spiro, Rand J.; Tirre, William C. – 1979
One hundred twelve college students participated in a study designed to determine whether students differ in their relative employment of knowledge-based processes in discourse processing and whether individuals tend to be more "text-bound" and less able to use preexisting knowledge schemata when they are more "stimulus-bound"…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
Knoop, Patricia A. – 1978
The purpose of this study was to review existing human operator modeling techniques and evaluate their potential utility for performance measurement applications (e.g., to support the type of flight simulation research that entails accounting for the perception and utilization of various cues). The major human operator characteristics that ought…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Mathematical Models
Martin, Joanne – 1975
Performance expectancy and satisfaction were investigated in terms of the rate of change in performance outcomes. In a two-by-two factorial design, the direction (improving or deteriorating) and rate (accelerating or decelerating) of change in performance were manipulated using false feedback in a computerized math game. In accord with performance…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Feedback
Rogers, Bruce G. – 1978
The manner in which instructions to respondents influenced the psychometric results of an affective instrument was examined. Undergraduate students enrolled in an educational measurement course were randomly assigned to either immediate response or careful response treatments. A fifteen-item attitude scale was administered to both groups. The…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Higher Education, Overt Response, Performance Factors
Charlton-Seifert Joan; And Others – 1979
Recent reports on the relationship between nutritional deficiencies and reading disabilities include the following findings: many children are undernourished but not underfed; undernutrition may decrease learning time, interfere with learning at critical periods of development, and lead to motivational and personality changes; inadequate diet…
Descriptors: Dining Facilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Needs, Influences
STERN, GEORGE G.; AND OTHERS – 1958
DATA WERE GATHERED ON THE UNCONSCIOUS MOTIVES OR PURPOSES IN THE CHOICE OF TEACHING AS A CAREER. THEY WERE USED AS A MEASURE IN PREDICTING POTENTIAL AND INDIVIDUAL TEACHING SUCCESS IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. SKETCHES OF MOTIVATIONAL TYPES ENCOUNTERED AMONG TEACHERS WERE DEVELOPED AND SAMPLED AMONG REPRESENTATIVE INDIVIDUALS OF EACH TYPE. THE…
Descriptors: Careers, Elementary School Teachers, Factor Analysis, Individual Psychology
CURTIS, H.A.; STUART, FRED – 1964
A COMPARISON WAS MADE OF ONE CLIMATE CONTROLLED SCHOOL WITH ONE OR MORE NON-CLIMATE CONTROLLED SCHOOLS OF SIMILAR SIZE WITH RESPECT TO FACTORS OF COST AND OUTCOMES, IN THE PINELLAS COUNTY, FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. EACH OF THE FOUR SCHOOLS STUDIED HAD THE FOLLOWING SIMILARITIES--LOCATION, COST OF CONSTRUCTION, OCCUPANCY RATE, AND OPERATING…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Environment, Climate Control, Comparative Analysis
