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Download full textWatters, James J.; And Others – 1994
This paper reports on the effects of an intervention program designed to develop cognitive and affective skills for the study of science by students undertaking a preservice elementary teacher education course. Previous research has indicated that a high proportion of students coming into this course have had negative experience in their previous…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Restructuring, Counseling Services, Education Courses
Goatley, Virginia J.; Raphael, Taffy E. – 1992
The Book Club project has a focus on research examining literature-based instruction with an emphasis on student-led response groups and this report describes the use of Book Club instruction within a special education resource room, in which elementary-level children incorporated the use of high quality literature, written and oral responses to…
Descriptors: Books, Clubs, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Hecht, Jeffrey B.; And Others – 1993
A multi-year program, Project Homeroom, designed to introduce home-based computing to a select group of high school teachers, students, and their parents was recently conducted in three Chicago-area (Illinois) schools. The Technological Innovations in Educational Research Laboratory at Illinois State University (Normal) evaluated this program.…
Descriptors: Bias, Computer Uses in Education, High School Students, High Schools
Karge, Belinda Dunnick – 1993
This study examined the relationship between environmental factors of teaching climate for beginning teachers and the desire to remain in teaching. Data from 23,088 Public School Teacher Questionnaires from the Schools and Staffing Survey longitudinal database were analyzed to determine the effect of environmental demographic factors…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beginning Teachers, Demography, Educational Environment
Fink, Arlene – 1995
The nine-volume Survey Kit is designed to help readers prepare and conduct surveys and become better users of survey results. All the books in the series contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use, illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of "dos and don'ts," and…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Educational Research, Error of Measurement
Bergstrom, Betty A.; Lunz, Mary E. – 1991
The level of confidence in pass/fail decisions obtained with computer adaptive tests (CATs) was compared to decisions based on paper-and-pencil tests. Subjects included 645 medical technology students from 238 educational programs across the country. The tests used in this study constituted part of the subjects' review for the certification…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Certification, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
Chattin-McNichols, John – 1991
In this study, a questionnaire was designed to assess Montessori teachers' reported likelihood of intervention in some 25 common situations in Montessori classrooms for 3-6 year olds, as well as to obtain limited background information on the teachers. Subjects were 422 Montessori teachers including 30 from Trinidad (where the questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Environment, Cross Cultural Studies, Early Childhood Education
Miller, Timothy R. – 1991
Two studies were carried out to evaluate the quality of multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) model parameter estimates obtained from the computer program NOHARM. The purpose of the first study was to compute empirical estimates of the standard errors of the parameters. In addition, the parameter estimates were evaluated for bias and the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis, Computer Simulation, Equations (Mathematics)
Larkin, Judith E.; Pines, Harvey A. – 1992
High and low self-monitors were given the task of applying for a position that was or was not a good fit with their personality. Subjects were 97 introductory psychology students who had previously taken the 18-item Self-Monitoring Scale (SMS). They took the SMS again--as if it were being used to decide whether they would be offered a very…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Career Education, College Students
Valley, John R. – 1992
From 1970 to 1985, the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) underwent major modifications caused by: (1) the addition of the Test of Standard Written English (TSWE) to the College Board's Admissions Testing Program (ATP); (2) the passage of test disclosure legislation; (3) the institution of test sensitivity reviews; and (4) the use of item response…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Educational History, Equated Scores
Koeller, Olaf – 1994
Scholastic achievement tests and mental ability tests normally consist of a set of multiple choice items, all of which are assumed to measure school-relevant cognitive abilities. The presumption, in a given test situation, is that the answers/solutions to the given tasks represent cognitive capabilities on the part of the examinees. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Ability, Difficulty Level, Grade 7
Lamberti, Mary Jo – 1992
This report examines the findings from a series of evaluations of efficacy programs in selected elementary and middle schools in Peoria (Illinois), Detroit (Michigan), Los Angeles (California), and the Ravenswood School District in East Palo Alto (California). An efficacy program initiated in Sacramento is targeted as a research site, but no data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools
McClure, Rick E. – 1993
In January 1990, the Leon County (Florida) School District decided to develop an attitude survey focusing on effective school components and school improvement areas. Using focus groups, this survey was accomplished through a steering committee of parents, students, teachers, and community members, with input from school and district…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
Green, Kathy E.; And Others – 1993
The effects of two cover letter manipulations and their interactions with demographic variables on response to the initial mailing of a survey were investigated. The two manipulations, type of appeal and type of respondent group identification, were intended to affect respondents' perceptions of their social responsibility and position. In all,…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Demography, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Wheeler, Patricia H. – 1992
Issues of the relative costs of multiple choice tests and alternative types of assessment are explored. Before alternative assessments in large-scale or small-scale programs are used, attention must be given to cost considerations and the resources required to develop and implement the assessment. Major categories of cost to be considered are…
Descriptors: Administration, Alternative Assessment, Comparative Analysis, Constructed Response
