During the fall term, preliminary forms of the Experimental Method Test (EMT) were given to introductory level psychology students as well as a number of advanced students. The results of this preliminary testing led to the development of a second form of the test which was evaluated over a number of groups of students. The results of the final…

A factor analysis was performed of education goal ratings of principals, teachers and parents of a number of California elementary schools. One hundred and six goals obtained from the Center for the Study of Evaluation's Needs Assessment Kit were rated on a five point scale for their importance. Ratings were submitted to a principal components…

The study explores the reasons for the resignation from the United States Army among graduates of the United States Military Class of 1966. It seeks to determine reasons for resignations, quality of resignees compared with nonresignees, and what can be done to reduce resignations of Academy graduates. Through questionnaires and personal…

This report is part of a general study of Reference Measures for Cognitive and Noncognitive Factors. The specific activity that is being reported is the development of "factor-referenced" tests or "marker" tests for several cognitive factors related to divergent production (i.e., ability to produce a variety of words, phrases,…

This study describes behavioral response--both its theoretical specification and its estimation--which relates health service utilization and expenditures to a number of variables: demographic, psychological, economic, medical, and policy-related. By incorporating these behavioral relations into a recently developed microsimulation model, national…

This inquiry determines the degree of relationship between observed faculty personal characteristics and judged teaching effectiveness. Students in a liberal arts college rated faculty on two typical teaching evaluation instruments and on a semantic differential form. Data came from 1,500 student judgments on 108 faculty (86 percent). Factor…

This paper describes Personality and Educational Environment Scales (PEES) and a self-concept theoretical model, used in diagnosing dropout from educational institutions, as utilized in a follow-up study of participation and dropout in adult education classes. A dropout was defined as a person who after being present for session 1 or 2 was absent…

In this paper a rather general theory of oblique factor rotation is outlined. The main results are formulated as four theorems. Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for two factor matrices to admit identical factor structures and/or factor patterns with factors having unit variances. These conditions are expressed in terms of…

A new general approach to the problem of oblique factor transformation is identified and presented as an alternative to the common "blind" transformation techniques currently available. In addition, techniques for implementing such an approach are developed. The first section of the paper contains a brief review of the procrustes problem. The next…

The purpose of this research study was to develop and test new instruments for assessing attitudes and coping responses to air pollution, and to gain insight into the factors influencing these attitudes and coping responses. Concern for air pollution was measured by two instruments a forced choice questionnaire which paired air pollution control…

Eighty-one randomly selected cotton producers in Lauderdale County were interviewed for the purposes of: (1) characterizing those in different cotton yield groups, (2) determining which practices were being used by those in different yield groups, and (3) identifying some of the factors influencing the farmers to use or not to use the 12 practices…

Four problems of data summary and analysis in the Concept Attainment Abilities Project are discussed. The problems are: (1) scoring and item analysis for items that exist in a completely crossed design; (2) determining the factorial structure of such item sets; (3) reducing the battery of 56 cognitive abilities tests administered in 1970 to…

The final volume of The Study of Junior Colleges contains the measurements and instrumentation derived from the project for future evaluation surveys. Part One, Prediction of Student Outcomes: Multivariate Analysis of the Survey Data, provides: an introduction to the analyses; data reduction, factors, and scales; students' objectives and…

In measuring attitudes by Semantic Differential, bipolar adjective scales with high loadings on an evaluative factor derived by Principal Components Analysis are used typically as unidimensional attitude measures. Komorita and Bass, using conventional statistical techniques, report the discovery of more than one evaluative factor. This paper…

This paper emphasizes the need for empirical research and objective discovery procedures in semantics, and illustrates a method by which these goals may be obtained. The aim of the methodology described is to provide a description of the internal structure of a semantic field by eliciting the description--in an objective, standardized manner--from…