Research examined the conception of achievement motivation as a unitary construct. (Author)

Factor analyses of male and female college students' retrospective responses on the Child's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory produced factor matrices very similar among themselves and also quite similar to factors obtained in previous studies. (Authors/MB)

Investigates selected reading readiness tests and points out that they measure a single generalized factor of readiness. The subtest concerning alphabet letter names provides the best predictor of successful reading in the tests examined. Bibliography. (RW)

Aim of the study is to assess empirically the interrelationships among some of Piaget's and Gesell's behavioral tasks. (Author)

Three methods of assessing college environment (student perceptions, student self-reports, and objective institutional data) were compared by use of multimethod factor analysis, a new technique which removes method variance by focusing on correlations between rather than within methods of measurement. (CK)

The EAS though less time consuming is shown to cover major psychological constructs of the ATGSB, and to offer a measure of the perceptual speed factor that was hypothesized to be related to success in computer-oriented and other data-analysis requirements in graduate business a schools. (Author/ES)

Considers the study of similarities and differences in factor structures between different groups. (AG)