The notion that all students should finish high school has grown throughout the last century and continues to be an important goal for all educational levels in this new century. Non-completion has been related to all sorts of social, financial, and psychological issues. Many studies have attempted to put together a process that will identify…

Certain unpleasant emotional states do alter cognitive information processing strategies. High arousal negative moods and very high arousal positive moods seem to make people more attracted to higher risk. This actually leads to a higher rate of misfortunes or negative outcomes. Low arousal negative moods, on the other hand, seem to make people…

Adolescent substance abuse has been on the rise for the past few decades, constituting a major personal and social problem. According to researchers, the causes are many, including biological, temperamental, psychological, behavioral, and environmental factors. Yet, only a few intervention methods have proven effective. Numerous studies…

This paper is concerned with the statistical issues of state rankings based on the state average Scholastic Assessment Test I (SAT I) scores and other relevant demographic and policy-related variables that are to be controlled. The purposes of the study were threefold. One purpose was to investigate the optimal transformation of a particular…

The current study is an examination of how support from siblings relates to academic competence in early adolescence, with a focus on the compensatory effects of sibling support. Participants were 694 African-American, European-American, and Hispanic-American students, ranging in age from 11 to 15. Participants were interviewed in school regarding…

The present study examined the influence of cultural background on the causes of adolescents loneliness. Eighty Canadian youth and 168 adolescents from the Czech Republic formed the participants pool. They answered and 30 item yes/no questionnaire. The questionnaire is composed of five subscales, namely: Personal inadequacies, Developmental…

This study evaluated the comparative stability and agreement of three approaches to calculating school effects given both student-level and school-level data. The approaches were hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), ordinary least squares (OLS), and weighted least squares (WLS). Analyses were conducted using data from the 1998 Maryland School…

This study examined the robustness of the "U.S. News and World Report" graduation rate performance indicator used in the magazine's college rankings. The graduation rate performance indicator is calculated as the difference between an institution's actual graduation rate and its predicted graduation rate, and is based on a linear…

This paper contains information concerning the following: 1. An overview of multivariate analysis of variance, and discriminant (DA) and canonical (CA) analyses. 2. An introduction to specification and measurement errors, and collinearity. 3. The sparsity of information concerning specification and measurement errors and collinearity as they…

(See also TM 501 087, TM 501 088, TM 501 090.)

(See also TM 501 087, TM 501 088, and TM 501 089.)

Tests the hypothesis that if five empirically determined variables (dogmatism, ambivalence, pupil control ideology, esprit, and thrust) are in one way or another manifestations of an individual teacher's own perceptions of authenticity, then they also have to be statistically linked to his own interpersonal orientation needs. (Author/WM)

Ambivalence, as assessed by the described modification of the semantic differential technique, was a predictor of predictability. (Author/CB)

The usefulness of certain psychological tests administered during infancy for the prediction of intelligence test performance during early childhood was the focus of this investigation. (Authors)