The Delphi technique is a method of eliciting and refining group judgments. The procedures used have three features: anonymous response, iteration and controlled feedback, and statistical group response. A series of experiments were initiated at RAND to evaluate the procedures. Upper-class and graduate students were used as subjects and general…

Fifteen descriptive statistics were computed for 345 instructor made multiple-choice optically scanned tests for the purpose of evaluating the quality of classroom test at the university level as well as the appropriateness of the evaluating statistics. The description and analysis of the average test represented a realistic lower bound of…

The primary purpose of the present study was to investigate the appropriateness of several tests of significance for use with interrupted time series data. The second purpose was to determine what effect the violation of the assumption of uncorrelated error would have on the three tests of significance. The three tests were the Mood test,…

THIS PAPER WAS PRESENTED AT A CONFERENCE ON "NEW DIRECTIONS IN RESEARCH ON EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION." TWO SCHEMES OF RESEARCH METHODOLOGY WERE DISCUSSED. THE FIRST IDEA WAS "FACET DESIGN AND ANALYSIS" ORIGINATED BY LOUIS GUTTMAN. FACET DESIGN WAS DEFINED AS A WAY OF LAYING OUT A DOMAIN FOR RESEARCH, WHILE FACET ANALYSIS…

Detailed descriptions of the data analysis procedures used in Project EDNEED (Empirical Determination of Nationally Essential Educational Data) are contained in this volume, the last of a five-volume final report. Results of the application of procedures and a narrative interpretation of the results are included. Priority rankings of 323 questions…

Argues that conventional dynamic modeling techniques divert attention from the importance of model structure and discusses various methods of system representation that are suitable for the analysis and improvement of model structure. (Available from IPC (America) Inc., 205 East 42 Street, New York, NY 10017; $46.80 annually.) (Author/JG)

The present investigation explored further the relationship between distortions in self-perception of depression and psychological adjustment. It was hypothesized that the inability to perceive accurately the level or severity of depression, regardless of the direction of distortion, would be related to a greater degree of overall psychopathology.…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the process of change within a construct as it undergoes either weakening by invalidation or strengthening by validation. Furthermore, this process was considered in terms of affective versus nonaffective constructs in order to determine whether invalidated affective constructs are more subject to…

Three models are proposed to describe the strategy applied by a subject when he is confronted with two successive time intervals and is required to deal with some relation between them, for example, by telling which was the longer by adjusting the second to match the first. (Author)

Examines how Soviet economic planners and policymakers cope with the geographic dichotomy of a concentration of population and economic activity in European Russia and the concentration of natural resources in sparsely populated Siberia. (Author/DB)

The computer programs require the students to show that they understand the calculations by processing one set of data correctly themselves before the remaining sets are computed for them. (MP)

Examines the results of selected high school debate tournaments to determine whether variables other than debate skills are predictors of the outcome. Variables investigated are gender, side of the questions, and speaking position. (PD)

This paper presents a plan for obtaining statistical information for justifying budget requests, planning staffing, and assessing service without placing heavy burdens on the staff. (Author/JAB)

Assesses the impact of law school on values and attitudes of students at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. A survey of all U.C. law students in 1975-76 examined their attitudes concerning role behaviors and attitudes concerning judicial policies. Findings indicated that law students' values, attitudes, and consequent behavior are only…

Solutions for the indeterminate common factor of a group of variables satisfying the single common factor model are not unique. This paper examines a number of thereoms concerning that problem and draws conclusions from them for factor analysis in general. (Author/JKS)