Three studies are described in which choice reaction time (RT) was related to such psychometric ability measures as verbal comprehension, numerical reasoning, hidden figures, and progressive matrices tests. Fairly consistent negative correlations were found between these tests and choice RT when high school samples were used. (Author/CTM)

A modified Payne process and the JCAH intermediate outcome medical audits were applied to 6,980 cases in eight diagnostic categories within 22 hospitals, representing 1,321 attending physicians. The effects of item specificity, total number of items, outcome versus process indicators, and item weights on measurement characteristics of audit…

Performance differences were not significant between men and women in Earth Science classes with fixed assignment deadlines, nor were achievement differences significant for women in self-paced sections compared to fixed deadline men or women. Men performed higher than women in self-paced groups, and higher than men or women in other learning…

Describes the construction and testing of a model to evaluate effectiveness of various teaching methods in economics. The variables included students' time spent on the course and expected grade upon entering the course. (Author/AV)

The 1972 re-norming of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale for children from three to six years of age produced unusually high scores. When these children were retested three years later, some drop in scores was noted. Reasons for the initial scores and the score decline are discussed. (Author/JKS)

Diffusion of curricular innovation proceeds most rapidly among heavily populated countries that invest substantially in public education. Diffusion proceeds less quickly in countries having educational goals different from those of the model materials, having barriers to information exchange or underdeveloped publishing technology, and where…

The author presents a synthesized typology of leader behavior. The behavior typology is built on the dimensions of task orientation, relationship orientation, and leader effectiveness. There are eight resulting leader types: more effective-high relationship orientation-high task orientation to less effective-low relationship orientation-low task…

Games players need a large repertoire of movement patterns that they can use under differing conditions in the playing of games. (JD)

To increase the efficiency and effectiveness of management of parks for recreational purposes, a new concept has been designed to evaluate and analyze the needs and attitudes of both the working personnel and the public consumer. (JD)

The most important job of the teacher educator is to link results of educational research to classroom application in a given school room with a given group of children and a specific teacher. (JD)

The school as a social institution reflects the attitude of society as a whole when it labels and stereotypes black children, assuming that their achievement level will be lower than that of their white peers. (JD)

Taba objectives seek to modify teaching methods so that directive, teacher-dominated techniques, which encourage primarily the recall of cognitive information, are replaced by supportive instructional techniques, which encourage more complex levels of thinking such as drawing conclusions and inferences. (JD)

Describes the characteristics of a statewide principal evaluation system. Even when an evaluation system is detailed, specific, and statewide, inconsistencies develop because of the special nature of principals' work. The system breaks down in the sampling of performance and outputs, and in the communication of negative feedback. (PS)

Based on research of teacher effectiveness, the Florida Performance Measurement System features formative and summative evaluation instruments comprised of wide-ranging concepts and indicators. Trained principals and supervisors observe and code behaviors for comparative evaluation. Florida districts and colleges make extensive use of the system…

Accuracy-disabled and rate-disabled young Canadian readers were compared to children who were "fluent normal" readers. Children in the latter group decoded at the same level of accuracy as the rate-disabled subjects but at a significantly faster rate. Specific deficiencies of each of the disabled groups were identified. (Author/RH)