Points out the limitations of reading surveys and stresses the need to interpret the results carefully. A literacy survey is used to highlight the kinds of goals which surveys might legitimately expect to accomplish. (RW)

The intrinsic merits of student teaching are discussed. (CK)

A study was made to determine what steps were necessary to take in order to reactivate unemployed occupational therapists. (CK)

The recommendation to use group means when there may be nonindependence among observational units is unduly restrictive. When random factors are properly identified and included in the analysis, the results are identical in balanced analysis of variance designs, irrespective of whether group means or individual observations are employed.…

This article describes and compares two job analysis procedures, task inventory analysis and Position Analysis Questionnaire. It provides comparisons in terms of the characteristics of, the activities involved in, and the results derived from a study utilizing each of the techniques. (Author/CT)

Describes an exercise using gravestone rubbings that help students organize data and think inductively. (AEA)

Instructional strategies used in teaching oceanographic data collection techniques are discussed. These include having students examine actual data, plan and organize a research cruise on a specific budget, and analyze incomplete data sets. Rationale for using these strategies is included. (JN)

Sampling experiments were used to assess the Type I error rates of the t test in situations where classes were randomly assigned to groups but analyses were carried out on individual student scores. Even small amounts of between-class variation caused large inflations in the Type I error rate of the t test. (Author/BW)

This paper demonstrates that gain score analysis and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) will always yield conflicting results unless the slopes of within-group regression lines of posttest on pretest equal one. In Lord's specific hypothetical example, trait instability invalidates the ANCOVA. An analysis that corrects for this problem is…

Data from the responses of 104 medical and rehabilitation students to the Attitudes toward Disabled Persons Scale-Form B (ATDP-B) were factor analyzed using a principal components solution, with particular attention to the problem of the number of factors to retain. Research supports ATDP-B use as a unidimensional measure. (Author/PN)