This study, using the Neulinger and Breit (1971) leisure attitude questionnaire, surveyed 129 community-based persons having a mean age of 71. Ninety-three of these persons were employed by and assumed responsibilities in the Foster Grandparent program at the local state school for the mentally retarded, while the other 36 respondents were members…

This research report had as its main purpose the derivation of a self-report measure of life satisfaction in retirement through the use of a mathematical technique known as factor analysis. Data on questions which have been used to measure moral, life satisfaction, and preretirement attitudes were collected from 123 retired male workers from a…

A model permitting construction of algorithms for the polynomial conjoint analysis of similarities is presented. This model, which is based on concepts used in nonmetric scaling, permits one to obtain the best approximate solution. The concepts used to construct nonmetric scaling algorithms are reviewed. Finally, examples of algorithmic models for…

Creativity has been conceptualized as either cognitive or affective, and an analysis of research has indicated that these two approaches are incompatible. In this study, a rapprochement was attempted between two theoretical approaches using procedures recommended by Cronbach and Meehl (1955). First, a construct of creativity was formulated, then…

Because knowledge of the component subskills of causal reasoning would aid in planning elementary science curricula, this study sought to identify component abilities through the individual administration of a battery of 29 tests to a randomly-selected sample of 84 first-graders, evenly divided by sex. These tests were: (1) verbal tests of…

This is a research report concerned with the availability of computer programs which made it advisable to try not only the factors dictated by a criterion, but successive additional factors until the meaning of the pattern is clarified. Examples illustrate the application of sequential factor analyses using a principal axes solution and varimax…

Factor analysis was used to test the hypothesis that College Level Examination Program (CLEP) General Examinations, when administered to students who have completed 2 years of college, do not measure anything different from that measured by the traditional battery of pre-college aptitude examinations. The CLEP examinations were taken in the fall…

This study explores the possibility that a model developed by J.E.L. Farradane of London may aid in developing a teaching strategy founded upon some of what is known about conceptualization, and providing diagnostic procedures to apply in determining a frame within which to develop a prognosis to adhere to in directing specific concept…

Procedures for analyzing common item effects on interscale structure were reviewed and a study using smallest space analysis of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) reported. Solutions of three matrices--intercorrelation matrix of the original CPI scales, of reduced scales (with common items removed), and of the number of common…

Summarized briefly is the research conducted at the University of Texas on the concerns of teachers. Two branches of research have been pursued. The distinction lies in the type of assessment used. The first, the Teacher Concerns Statement (TCS), an open-ended free-response instrument, asks the question: "When you think about your teaching,…

Relationships between school achievement and two theoretically different measures of intelligence, Piagetian and psychometric, are explored in 143 bright, average, and retarded elementary school students. Factor analyses of the California Test of Mental Maturity, the Metropolitan Achievement Test, the Stanford-Binet, and fifteen Piaget-type tasks…

The specific purposes of this study were to identify new and unique dimensions of teaching and to identify the commonalities of several existing classroom observation systems. The objectives or anticipated outcomes were to: (a) increase interpretation and cross validation of research using different observation systems and more efficient…

This study of factors used by graduate faculty in their evaluation of graduate students had as its goal the development of a research-based conceptual framework of desired outcomes in graduate education. Factor analysis of the responses of 190 graduate faculty at Kansas State University, Manhattan, to a graduate student performance checklist…

On the basis of an anthropological descriptive study of 16 schools and a study of the high innovative schools compared with low innovative schools, an interaction hypothesis was formulated. The hypothesis included theoretical constructs of system innovative thrust, personnel innovative thrust, and selected educational change. In this paper, these…

Items from the Laurelton Self Concept Scale (LSCS) and the Locus of Control Scale for Children were administered to 172 male and female educable mental retardates to examine the LSCS by R factor analysis. It was found that the Self Concept Scale is factor analyzable when appropriately administered to educables. The small factors grouped into…