The academic-standards policy of the community college is often inconsistent with the open-door admissions policy. A large number of community colleges still used a fixed Grade Point Average (GPA) standard when determining academic standing. Would it not be sounder educational policy to use a developmental system of GPA requirements in determining…

The employment of judgment as an evaluation tool at the early stage of curriculum development is advantageous. The reasons why this is so are: (1) writers exhibit more readiness to change elements of the program during the early stages of curriculum development; (2) there is great economic advantage in using such an evaluation tool; and (3)…

The Recruit Performance Test (RPT) was developed to meet a widely recognized need for an accurate measurement of achievement in learning the military/psychomotor skills in recruit training. It was hoped that the test would be of special value in assessing the achievement of Category IV personnel, who are thought to be penalized by the present…

Nine job control language (JCL) procedures for the Rapidly Extensible Language (REL) batch system are presented. The REL system itself is a total software system designed to facilitate communication with the computer in very high level languages. Its goal is an interactive time-shared system, but for a variety of reasons it has been desirable to…

Two experiments were performed using messages of digits presented auditorily at a rate of two digits per second. In both experiments, messages of seven different lengths were employed, consisting of 4 to 10 digits in Experiment 1, and of 2 to 8 digits in Experiment 2. The Ss were asked to recall them in the original order, and then to estimate the…

A battery of 10 intelligence tests was administered to 22 subjects under standard conditions. After the testing session the degree of perceived similarity between 5 tests of the battery was to be estimated with regard to: (1) the kind of intellectual activity required by the tests, and (b) difficulty. Estimated qualitative similarity, according to…

This report of the Joint Committee on Educational Goals and Evaluation to the California Legislature discusses the need for educational goals and evaluation, the committee investigation, and the collection of information. As a result of the investigation, it was concluded that: (1) it is essential that the goal-setting process include the…

The absence of data-based research on the collective bargaining movement is surprising given the potential significance of this issue to the academic community. The purpose of this study is to show that community colleges can be differentiated on the basis of the particular collective bargaining representative selected and, furthermore, that those…

An autocorrelation technique was used to determine the periodicity underlying successive recurrences of specific sleep states (Quiet Sleep and Active Sleep). Groups of short (2-3 hour) polygraphic records and individual all night recordings were analyzed. Active Sleep and Quiet Sleep periodicities at 32 weeks conceptional age were 12 minutes. At…

A study was devised to develop a method for describing a continuous, complex perceptual-motor task in descrete categories by which subjects could be pretrained through the use of static, programed, audiovisual techniques; to construct an audiovisual training device to provide realistic, programed practice in the stimulus-response events selected…

The item (difficulty and discrimination) and test (reliability and validity) statistics in classical test theory are highly dependent upon the calibration sample of individuals used. The estimates of item and test parameters in classical test theory is valid within a range of interest along the characteristic measured. Generally, this range of…

In an earlier pilot study of the narrative sections of Navy performance evaluations for senior enlisted personnel in pay grade E-7, it was determined by content analytic techniques that it is possible to differentiate between the performance of typical and superlative chief petty officers based on the narrative content of Evaluation Reports. A…

Forty-two nursery school children were exposed to two procedures designed to assess their discrimination of orientation. Under one procedure, subjects had no difficulty in discriminating between stimuli which differed only in orientation. Under a second procedure, where color and size of stimuli were also varied, orientation proved to be a…

Cognitive categories in infants that have relevance for linguistic development were investigated. "Agent" and "recipient," the categories chosen, are relational categories which by definition involve action. This experiment explored infants' (48 males, 14-24 months of age) sensitivity to certain "action parameters" of events. The question of…

Kindergarten Ss were assigned to three treatments. Group I learned words that were self-selected; Group II learned words selected by children in Group I, and Group III learned words common to the vocabulary of young children. Group I Ss scored significantly higher than the control group Ss, supporting the Ashton-Warner hypothesis. Group I ratings…