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Download full textWaldron, Vincent R.; Krone, Kathleen J. – 1989
A study examined the role of emotion in organizational life (specifically, in a corrections organization) to determine the communicative circumstances and effects associated with emotional communication events. A detailed questionnaire administered to 105 employees of a state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation provided data on the nature…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Conflict
Peterson, Ralph; Eeds, Maryann – 1990
Intended for teachers, this book demonstrates the importance of teaching with real books. The first three chapters outline the components of a literature program, the settings in which it operates, and the human communities that shape it. Chapter 4 discusses literary elements: character, time, mood, layers of story meaning, place, point of view,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Literary Devices
Boser, Judith A. – 1990
The cost-effectiveness and impact on response rate of variations in mailing procedures involved in a mail survey of teacher education graduates were assessed. Variables studied were use of a preliminary or advance letter, postcard versus letter reminders as the first follow-up mailing, timing of the reminder (1 versus 2 weeks after the first…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Graduate Surveys, Higher Education
Pearce, Judy A.; Loyd, Brenda H. – 1987
This study examined 665 elementary and secondary teachers with different levels of experience to discover differences and similarities in selected teaching behaviors. Of the 57 behaviors, 16 were clustered into teacher response to student response to a question or to a student initiation. Sixteen related to teacher response to inattentive or…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Behavior
Moffitt, Mary Anne – 1987
Following up research by Radway and others on readers of romance novels, a study, employing a reader-response approach, was conducted with 18 female adolescent readers of romances to discover if they perceived and enjoyed the novels in ways appreciably different from other readers. The subjects filled out questionnaires about their romance novel…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Emotional Development
Fenster, Mark – 1989
Theories of taste are efforts to understand the processes of signification by which cultural forms take on meaning, and how subjects are inserted into such processes. One of these theories is the notion of "taste cultures," set forth by Herbert Gans in the 1960s and continued by George Lewis into the 1980s. A taste culture is an…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Cultural Context, Cultural Traits, Democratic Values
Baghi, Heibatollah – 1990
The Maryland Functional Testing Program (MFTP) uses the Rasch model as the statistical framework for the analysis of test items and scores. This paper is designed to assist the reader in developing an understanding of the fit statistics in the Rasch model. Background materials on application of the Rasch model in statistical analysis of the MFTP…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Equated Scores, Error of Measurement
Gallup Organization, Inc., Princeton, NJ. – 1990
A Gallup report presents the results and conclusions of a study designed to measure attitudes and perceptions among the nation's adults regarding higher education. The specific issues addressed cover the benefits of a college education to society at large, the focus of institutions of higher education, financial support of higher education…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Audience Response, Educational Needs
Sykes, Robert C.; Fitzpatrick, Anne R. – 1990
The results of classifying test items on the basis of their Mantel-Haenszel (MH) alpha estimates were compared to the results of classifying these items using an item response theory (IRT) based procedure involving the comparison of item difficulties in the interest of identifying the alpha value that maximized the decision concordance between the…
Descriptors: Classification, Cutting Scores, Difficulty Level, Ethnic Groups
Samejima, Fumiko – 1990
Because the test information function and its two modified formulas provide useful information, the reliability coefficient of a test is no longer necessary in modern mental test theory. Yet it is interesting to know how to predict the coefficient using the test information function and its modifications, tailored for each separate population of…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Equations (Mathematics), Error of Measurement
Loveland, Katherine A.; Tunali, Belgin – 1990
This study investigated the ability of high-functioning verbal individuals with autism or Down syndrome (DS) to respond appropriately to conversational "social scripts" involving reactions to another person's distress. Subjects were 13 persons with autism and 13 with DS, aged 5-27, matched on verbal mental age. During a "tea…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Affective Behavior, Autism
Engelen, Ronald J. H.; Jannarone, Robert J. – 1989
The purpose of this paper is to link empirical Bayes methods with two specific topics in item response theory--item/subtest regression, and testing the goodness of fit of the Rasch model--under the assumptions of local independence and sufficiency. It is shown that item/subtest regression results in empirical Bayes estimates only if the Rasch…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Comparative Analysis, Equations (Mathematics), Estimation (Mathematics)
Oakeshott, Martin – 1990
A project conducted by Britain's Further Education Unit: (1) identified and evaluated strategies used by Educational Guidance Services for Adults (EGSAs) to feed back to providers of learning opportunities the unmet needs of adult clients with particular reference to the unemployed and unwaged; (2) identified and evaluated mechanisms used by…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Education, Educational Policy, Evaluation Methods
Baker, Janice; Zigmond, Naomi – 1990
The study examined how adding students with learning disabilities (LD) to regular education classrooms changed the behavior of nonhandicapped students and their teachers. Initial observations were of mainstream classes containing no learning-disabled students. Observations were again conducted after LD students had been mainstreamed for 8 months.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities
Weston, Ruth D. – 1990
In addition to her work as novelist and critic, Eudora Welty is also a valuable resource for the teaching of composition, particularly through both her theory and example, for she is always writing about writing. Many of Welty's essays on literary theory speak to problems encountered in the college writing class. Perhaps the most accessible text…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Reader Response, Twentieth Century Literature
