Sibling data may be used as a covariant statistically controlling family background for testing the adequacy of age-standardized scores; for testing the interval scale of mental measurements; for analyzing correlations into between- and within-family components; and for detecting cultural sources of variance. (Author/GDC)

In two treatment-repeated measurements designs, the ratio between the unbiased variance of the differences and twice the variance of the errors of measurement can be used to test for interaction of subjects and treatments. The use of this statistic is illustrated. (Author/CP)

Among the 160 students studied, demographic, cognitive moral development level and college environment variables interacted in highly complex patterns to influence the student's choice of premarital sexual standard. This suggests that a general systems approach, rather than univariate analysis, is needed to fully study complex moral phenomena.…

Undergraduate performance and standardized test scores were correlated with dental school performance for 131 members of nine Harvard School of Dental Medicine classes to determine the predictive validity of the earlier variables. The only significant positive correlation was of the Dental Admission Test and dental National Board Examination, part…

Counseling needs assessment data were reduced using percentile ranking, cluster analysis, and factor analysis. Results were compared with those obtained by a guidance steering committee using percentile rankings. Only the cluster analysis yielded a moderate number of meaningful needs-groupings. The steering committee approach may be best. (Author)

This description of the Vigo County Public Library's implementation of planning, programming, and budgeting focuses on its output measurement system, Complete Service Statistics. Measures of five service categories are developed--lending, facilities, information, production, and staff--to gather statistics for library management. (RAA)

Research in physical education has too often been a random process. The integration of past work with current theory is necessary for the advancement of exercise and sports models to the state of high logical density. (CJ)

(NOTE: See HE 512 216 for journal name change information.) The findings, methodology, and policy implications presented in Astin's longitudinal study of college students, are reviewed by four higher education scholars. These include J. Bruce Francis, Gerald Gurin, Arthur W. Chickering, and G. Lester Anderson. (SF)

Indicates that citation data conform to the Brookes model, that a scientific journal which is used as an archive ages slowly, and that one which supports a research front ages quickly--aging being dependent not only on the material, but on the user. (Author/SW)

The semantic differential--one approach to attitude measurement--basically records a combination of a person's associations with a particular concept with a scaling procedure. This paper considers the implications of such a device for teachers of mathematics. (Author/MK)

Reported is a method for the analysis of qualitative data, based on the linguistic device of systemic networks used to represent a structure of possibilities. Some initial applications are described, and work in progress, including a computing system, is outlined. (Author/HM)

Two major and two minor principles are shown to serve to generate a large number of multivariate models, including canonical analysis, factor analysis, and latent trait test theory. The statistical underpinnings of the theory are discussed. (Author/JKS)

Compares 14 instruments measuring social-communicative anxiety and concludes that virtually every measure was significantly and strongly associated with most other measures and most reflected the same general construct. (JMF)

This study analyzes the effects that state licensing requirements have had on barber supply and on new entrants into the trade over the period 1969-1973. The authors found that the minimum education requirements, barber school hours required, and months of apprenticeship required have had little or no significant effect. (MF)

Discusses the use of computer information systems to aid in library management functions such as planning, control, and decision making. Outlined are applications of macroanalysis (comparative library data, performance measures, use statistics) and microanalysis (circulation, acquisition, catalog support, and online catalog systems). (SW)