A study tested a delivery skills method of instruction for reducing public speaking anxiety. Subjects were 59 male and 71 female undergraduates (ranging in age from 17-49) enrolled in a basic public speaking course at a midwestern university during the 1986-87 academic year. The Personal Report of Public Speaking Apprehension (PRPSA) which…

An evaluation of the performance of and attitudes toward the beginning course in economics at three mid-western collegiate institutions is investigated in this study. (Editor)

Examines the propensity of teachers to strike and, using a logit model, how this propensity can be affected by certain decision variables, notably a teacher's political leaning, sex, cynicism, moonlighting, colleague orientation, orientation to the public, age, teaching load, total family income, morale, and attitude toward peer evaluation.…

Communities, defined as either physical or sociocultural entities, vary widely in reported levels of resident satisfaction. Dimensions of community characteristics were studied to assess their relative importance to resident community satisfaction. A questionnaire about various community characteristics such as social life, physical…

The concurrent and predictive validity of four qualitative behavioral classes of social interaction (initiating and receiving positive and negative social interaction) was investigated using sociometric measures of peer acceptance (ratings) and friendship (nominations). Forty children (18 boys and 22 girls) selected from 14 third- and fourth-grade…

Path analysis is presented as a technique that can be used to test on a priori model based on a theoretical conceptualization involving a network of selected variables. This being an introductory source, no previous knowledge of path analysis is assumed, although some understanding of the fundamentals of multiple regression analysis might be…

A Monte Carlo study was performed to test under what conditions and to what degree various alternatives would be superior to multiple linear regression (MLR). The criteria used was the mean squared error of prediction of individual scores and the mean squared error of estimation of the regression weights. Populations were simulated containing…

A Monte Carlo study was conducted to estimate the efficiency of and the relationship between five equations and the use of cross validation as methods for estimating shrinkage in multiple correlations. Two of the methods were intended to estimate shrinkage to population values and the other methods were intended to estimate shrinkage from sample…

As a companion study to the primary analysis of the Management Implications of Team Teaching (MITT) study, the unitized schools in this study were examined alone for predictors of differential success in implementing the innovation. This report briefly describes how the MITT staff handled a problem in the companion study of reducing the number of…

A general class of regression models for ordered categorised data is developed and discussed. Thier properties are contrasted with log linear models and other methods of analysis. The general problem of fitting by maximum likelihood is discussed and solved. The models are shown to be multivariate extensions of generalised linear models and the…

The purpose of the present paper is to measure the effectiveness of a differential add-on grant program, Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The evidence presented shows that this kind of grant program does increase local spending by much more than would be expected of a traditional block grant. The point estimate of the…

Identification of cues on the major factors affecting judgment is discussed in this paper. The advantages and weaknesses of five approaches to identifying, selecting, and defining features of objects or activities to be judged is examined. These features are: (1) logical specification; (2) expert opinion; (3) prespecification and narrowing of a…

The degree of nonorthogonality in a factorial design was systematically increased. Five methods of dealing with nonorthogonality were selected and applied: two were least squares solutions (Method 1 and Method 2); two were approximate solutions (the unweighted means analysis and the method of expected frequencies); and the fifth was the…

Management Engineering Teams (MET) were used in the development and testing of a methodology for determining non-aircrew officer grade requirements. The methodology tested was an extension of the Officer Grade Requirements (OGR) procedure developed during the 1963-1966 time period. In the OGR project, a criterion board rated 3,575 officer jobs for…