This paper presents the results of research conducted to investigate the relationship of various psychosocial variables on the positioning of college ice hockey players. The California Personality Inventory (CPI) was administered to the NCAA Championship ice hockey team at the University of Minnesota, and a separate subjective psychosocial rating…

Eight teachers and 169 second-grade students participated in a study of the relationship of social interaction to reading achievement. Teachers rated each student on a behavior checklist in order to categorize each as high, average, or low, socially interactive. The SRA Achievement Series reading test and the California Short Form Test of Mental…

The purpose of this study was to investigate within the vicarious learning paradigm the effects of manipulated self-evaluation treatments and model performance conditions on both the acquisition and subsequent performance of novel and self-reinforcing responses. It was predicted that subjects receiving either high or low self-evaluation treatments…

This report summarizes three recent studies conducted by the Bureau of School Programs Evaluation of the New York State Education Department that sought to identify relationships between various school factors and student performance in reading and mathematics. The studies utilized three different research strategies. The Regression Study…

Profiles are drawn of the 13,477 participants (75 percent nonwhite) in the Career Opportunities Program (COP) in 1972 in terms of their jobs, education, training, and performance as students. The report touches on how the 132 demonstration programs have affected local education agencies in the areas of differentiated staffing and new career…

In view of the cost and potential impact of guidance counselors, the New York State Office of Education Performance Review undertook this study to determine the actual role and function of guidance personnel, and the effectiveness of the counseling services they provide. The examination was based on the perceptions of counselors, parents,…

The relative effectiveness of alternative reward structures in strengthening individual task performance was investigated by operationalizing six reward structure treatments--each of which combined one of two levels of differential group rewarding with one of three levels of differential rewarding within groups. Twelve males and twelve females…

An annotated list of technical reports, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers produced by members of the staff of the American Institutes for Research in the past ten years is provided. The earliest research addressed fundamental issues in programed instruction. Later, it came to address issues common to both programed instruction…

This paper reports results of two retention studies. In each, tests were given some time after instruction to a class of students whose initial level of performance was quite high. Results of these studies are summarized in terms of evidence related to the following questions: (1) to what extent are performances immediately following learning…

To determine the effects of hearing impairment on school performance of students for whom no special educational provisions had been made, 116 students (ages 7 through 17 in public school grades 2 through 10) were evaluated for auditory impairment, IQ, and educational achievement. Findings of the study showed that even mild hearing impairment…

Santa Barbara City College recently established a tutorial center to serve the needs of educationally disadvantaged students, particularly those with minority backgrounds. To investigate the impact ot these services, the performance and persistence of 75 students enrolled in a preparatory English course were studied. Each section was taught by the…

The experiment tested the effects of presentation word orders in a multitrial free-recall task. Three types of presentation were used: (1) randomized; (2) constant order; and (3) maintained order (maintenance of subjects order of recall on the subsequent presentation). In addition, the effects of number of recalls per presentation (1 or 3) were…

Twelve educable or trainable Ss, 14 to 22 years of age, who were institutionalized residents of a state school for the retarded, were examined in a simple vigilance test to determine effects of knowledge-of-results (KR) contingent upon correct responses. Each S in the KR group was instructed to press a switch upon seeing a light signal and to…

The purpose of this study was to obtain, organize, and present data of a stratified random sample of 1971 Master of Education degree recipients at West Texas State University to assist in the evaluation of the graduate program in teacher education there. The kinds of data collected were as follows: a) information obtained from official university…

The study's objectives were to: (1) study relationships between the selected measures of high school performance and self-concept, and (2) develop a general framework for a longitudinal study of the 1971 graduates of Intermountain School and their vocational success. Data were taken from school records for senior males and from a self-reference…