A model designed to account for major factors on personality questionnaires is proposed and evaluated using the Differential Personality Inventory. Two respondent processes are postulated: sensitivity to the underlying desirability of items, and threshold for responding desirably. (Author/JKS)

Research was focused on the consequences of enabling students to improve performance by allowing a retest on the same content. One of the major hypotheses of the study, that students in the optional retest condition would achieve higher test grades than those in the traditional test-once condition, was confirmed. (LBH)

Summarizes and critiques a dissertation that assessed the relationship between job satisfaction of music performance faculty in doctoral degree granting institutions and their perceptions of their work; departmental chairperson, and peers. Weerts criticizes the dissertation's title, grammar, writing style, and recommendations, characterizing it as…

The five-stage multivariate "Wisconsin model" was used to explain comparative educational and occupational attainment of blacks and whites in a sample of boys studied in 1969 and again in 1974. Socioeconomic status has little explanatory power for blacks. Ambition and high school performance are stronger predictors of attainment for blacks than…

Multiple regression is used to estimate faculty compensation levels and compensation change for 46 paired union and nonunion institutions of higher education for the year 1974-75. Evidence shows that collective bargaining is associated with increased faculty salaries and benefits. (Author)

Methods by which annual evaluation and review of departments at Michigan State has moved from a limited exercise to a valued administrative tool are described. A model is used that has as its basic unit the academic department and that is an operational system for departmental review and resource allocation in a complex university. (Editor/LBH)

Based on the recommendations of previous research, this study discusses and analyzes the usage of technology and instructional materials in a broad level in the United States. The National Education Longitudinal Study: 1988-96 (NELS88) is a longitudinal study of the 1988 eighth graders by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The…

A study was conducted to compare, with simulated unidimensional and two-dimensional sets, the Type I error probabilities and rejection rates obtained with two versions of the LISREL computer program, the earlier version PRELIS/LISREL 7 and the later version PRELIS2/LISREL8, a version that corrects the asymptotic covariance matrix. Unidimensional…

A study examined the effects of scheduling a language arts block at West Vigo Middle School (Indiana) in the 1993-94 school year in an attempt to show that ISTEP (Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress) language arts and reading NCE (Normal Curve Equivalent) scores for eighth graders would increase. ISTEP scores for 1993 (before the…

This report compares plaintiff and nonplaintiff school districts in "Council for Better Education v. Wilkinson" and "Rose v. Council for Better Education" as regards the equity and adequacy outcomes resulting from rulings of the Kentucky Supreme Court and subsequent implementation of the Kentucky Reform Act (KERA) of 1990.…

This report is based on a study in which a regression model was constructed to increase accuracy in enrollment predictions. A model, known as the Modified Regression Technique (MRT), was used to examine K-12 enrollment over the past 20 years in 2 New Jersey school districts of similar size and ethnicity. To test the model's accuracy, MRT was…

This study focused on the use of journal writing and worksheets in the area of social studies within a suburban elementary school. The study was designed to determine if there was a difference in children's social studies test scores when they completed journal activities or when they completed worksheets. Subjects were 36 Tennessee fifth-grade…

Two alternative methods for the measurement of perceived barriers to occupations, whether they be the idealistic or realistic aspirations of the youths, are presented. (NQ)

Study compares the Rasch and the Guttman models of measurement and thus adds to the description of the characteristics of Rasch's logistic model. Such knowledge is of importance in making decisions as to which model and which statistics should be used in evaluations of tests. (Author/CB)