The study identified biographical variables related to rehabilitation failure and success in 193 hearing-impaired young adults and ascertained whether these variables could be used in a multivariate predictive fashion to identify rehabilitation potential. (Author)

Examines some questions arising in connection with the application and usefulness of Bradford's Law, which describes the dispersion of articles on a particular subject among journal titles. (Author)

The construct validity of the cognitive, affective, and behavioral components of attitudes were investigated via the analysis of covariance structures method. Results are interpreted from a cognitive consistency and learning theory perspective. (Author/JKS)

Discusses current trends in health and health care, assesses significance of current data, and investigates causes and implications of the data for future health and health care. For journal availability, see SO 506 144. (Author/DB)

A model designed to account for major factors on personality questionnaires is proposed and evaluated using the Differential Personality Inventory. Two respondent processes are postulated: sensitivity to the underlying desirability of items, and threshold for responding desirably. (Author/JKS)

In an attempt to replicate Page's major finding of written comment effectiveness, 415 fifth and seventh-grade students were evaluated by their teachers for 6 weeks with experimentally determined combinations of letter grades and comments. Data from 12 other replication studies were examined. (Author/BW)

Looks at a group of politically knowledgeable college students and assesses changes in perceptions to the messages of Ford and Carter during the course of the 1976 Presidential pre-election debates. Notes statistically significant differences between pre-debate, post-debate, and delayed post-debate ratings on sets of semantic differential-like…

Research was focused on the consequences of enabling students to improve performance by allowing a retest on the same content. One of the major hypotheses of the study, that students in the optional retest condition would achieve higher test grades than those in the traditional test-once condition, was confirmed. (LBH)

Available from the Comparative Administration Research Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242; $15.00 annually. (IRT)

Examined are the specific differences in the salary reward structures of eight clusters of academic disciplines included in Biglan's three-dimensional model of the academic profession. A total of 1,320 faculty at a large research university responded to the Faculty Activity Analysis questionnaire regarding the time spent in 11 categories of…

Describes a study which investigated the feasibility of interactive computer assisted testing (ICAT) as an effective instructional method and its effects on attitudes towards computer assisted instruction (CAI). (VT)

This study examines the relationship between teachers' and students' priorities regarding instructional practices and the actual occurrence of these practices in the classroom. A Likert-type inventory provided the data. Levels of agreement varied. The validity of the results and their implications for curriculum evaluation and instruction are…

Reports on a variety of topics related to experimental design and analysis in the field of medical education. (CP)

More attention should focus on sample sizes and the concept of statistical power in research in the field of health, physical education, and recreation. (JD)

A study of a U.S. national sample of females ages 25 through 40 reveals a moderate association of education, and a weaker association of physical attractiveness, with husbands' occupational prestige. The contribution of education to females status attainment through marriage seems to vary positively with level of origins and the contribution of…