This "Practitioner's Guide to Growth Models," commissioned by the Technical Issues in Large-Scale Assessment (TILSA) and Accountability Systems & Reporting (ASR), collaboratives of the "Council of Chief State School Officers," describes different ways to calculate student academic growth and to make judgments about the…

The major goal of this research study was the identification and validation of measures of components of personal achievement orientations that can be used in the job training program context. The guiding conceptions for the research were based on Atkinson's theory of achievement motivation, Gurin's investigations of expectancies, and measurement…

Volume I is the narrative and statistical account of a study identifying and measuring individual characteristics which may influence a job trainees' capacity to obtain and maintain successful employment. (CE000159). This is Volume II which contains appendix materials: Appendix A-Interview, B-Job History, C-Behavior Instructions and Score Sheet,…

The study investigated the role of verbal cues in the communication of the self-fulfilling prophecy phenomenon. Specifically, the purpose was to determine the relationship between 1) teachers' verbal cues to students and teachers' prophecies, 2) teachers' verbal cues to students and student achievement, and 3) teachers' prophecies and student…

Research has demonstrated that depressed people lack the optimistic bias evidenced by nondepressed persons and that the former may be more realistic in predicting the outcome of future events (depressive realism hypothesis). This study assesses the depressive realism hypothesis by comparing the accuracy of depressed and nondepressed people's…

Describes a class experiment illustrating students' illusions about their own mortality (often referred to as "unique invulnerability"). The students received information, culled from actuarial tables, concerning age and mortality rates. The students consistently overestimated their own age of death even when told they would do so. (MJP)