This exploratory study was designed to compare three groups within the teaching profession--women school administrators, women teachers matched with administrators on years of teaching experience and teacher education, and women teachers randomly selected--on variables which may be relevant to career decisions. (Editor)

The purpose of the study was to test the effectiveness of two related strategies for changing a measured disposition of intolerance toward cultural diversity to one of significantly less intolerance. (Editor)

After acknowledging the general ignorance concerning the changes which occur in American undergraduates who study off-campus, either domestically or internationally, the authors describe various studies which have attempted to assess off-campus educational experiences. (Editor)

Restricted sampling with which the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities was standardized was investigated by simulating a multivariate population comprised of four variables and having specified means, standard deviations, and intercorrelations. (Author/CL)

The present paper attempts to consider the physical education teacher's role in terms of (a) students' expectations across the years of teacher training; (b) how pupils see the role of the physical education teacher; and (c) the perceptions (and possible reinforcing influences) of classroom colleagues. (Author)

Article considered newly emerging evidence regarding the character of delinquency in general and modifications of female sex roles which challenge popular notions about the quality and quantity of the sexual distribution of delinquent acts. (Author/RK)

The present study attempts to determine the opinions of preservice elementary teachers, enrolled at four different institutions, regarding the objectives of education. (Author)

The aim of this study was to ascertain the differences, if any, between English, West Indian, Indian and Pakistani adolescents in Britain, in their attitudes towards personal, social and cultural materials, and whether such differences were a reflection of personality rather than cultural diversity. (Author/RK)

This article reports a study of the influences on the choice of subject matter and teaching methods made by teachers of economics. (Editor)

This paper describes an approach to item analysis that is based on the estimation of a set of response curves for each item. The response curves show, at a glance, the difficulty and the discriminating power of the item and the popularity of each distractor, at any level of the criterion variable (e.g., total score). The curves are estimated by…

Recent comparisons (R. Freedle and I. Kostin, 1988) of differential item difficulty (DIF) have found that items that are in some way easier differentially give advantage to white examinees. In this study, the male/female ratio was manipulated among college students taking a social sciences examination to determine the effect of the male/female…

An overview of the state of the art in psychological research is presented, with an emphasis on the attention given to effect sizes. The acceptance of small effect sizes for biomedical research is contrasted with the rejection of similar effect sizes for psychological research. The Binomial Effect Size Display is used to depict the practical…

The effectiveness of 19 methods of smoothing was investigated as those methods apply to the equipercentile method of test equating. Seven methods involved smoothing the score distribution before the tests were equated (presmoothing). Seven involved smoothing the resultant points after the equating (postsmoothing). Five methods involved combining…