This research is an extension of earlier studies in which the experience of the body and the body image are conceptualized as an index of the way in which a person structures his relationships with others, how open or free he can be with others, or how disclosing he can be with others. (Author/RK)

American Indian students were divided into three treatment groups to test the hypothesis that: the students who receive instruction using visual communications method will do significantly better than the students who receive instruction in the same concepts orally or through reading a text. (JC)

A study of 1,423 respondents in northwest Wisconsin shows that age, education, and place of residence appear to account for the variation in environmental concern, with no significant remaining effect accounted for by any of the types of recreation considered by Dunlap and Heffernan in their 1975 study. (Author/JC)

After 15 years of research on group induced shifts in individual choice, two hypotheses, social comparison (involving image maintenance) and persuasive arguments (involving attitude change), have emerged as the leading explanatory contenders. This article criticizes the view held by Burnstein and his associates (EJ 128 727) which supports the…

Critically examines the foci of four prevalent explanations for reading failure in children: visual perception, intersensory integration, temporal-order perception, and verbal functioning. Applying findings from his own laboratory investigations and other selected research to each of the four hypotheses, author argues that the verbal-deficit…

Hypothesizing that when the motive to succeed (MS) is greater than the motive to avoid failure (MAF), the student teacher responds more positively and does better in the field experience than when MS is less than MAF, two samples of male and female student teachers were compared. (Author/JC)

In a course, Developing Creativity in Teaching, graduate students, many of them experienced teachers of varied subjects in junior and senior high school, practiced some methods which facilitate creative learning. (Author)

Fifteen FORTRAN 77 programs are contained in the described package. Three programs are available for each of five forgetting models involving 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10-parameter models. The programs compute parameter estimates and test parameter estimates both between and within experimental conditions. (Author/GDC)

Discusses criticisms of behavioral science research methodologies, and offers solutions which emphasize that it is only on the basis of theory that one can decide on an appropriate hypothesis to be tested, on a correct method of statistical analysis, and on whether the experimental results can be generalized to a population of interest. (Author/KS)

Examined vocational hypothesis testing by applying Snyder's hypothesis-testing research paradigm to a vocational task in two experiments. Subjects (N=106) were asked to evaluate the appropriateness of a specific occupation for themselves. Subjects tended to exhibit confirmatory hypothesis-testing strategies when relevant occupations were…

Questions the support of John Holland's hypothesis that person-environment congruence relates positively to achievement. Evidence is provided in a study that Holland claims supports his hypothesis, in Holland's (1985) book, in Holland's (1968) data, and in the authors' finding of a negative relationship between the annual incomes and conventional…

The properties of nonmetric multidimensional scaling one explored by specifying statistical models, proving statistical consistency, and devloping hypothesis testing procedures. Statistical models with errors in the dependent and independent variables are described for quantitative and qualitative data. (Author/LMO)

Several general correlation patterns are shown which give exact F tests in an analysis of variance (ANOVA) procedure. They are the most general correlation patterns one can assume in a one-way and two-way layout and still have the F tests be valid. (Author/BW)

Asserts that the sensitive-period hypothesis has not been tested on three counts: (1) no systematic studies of initial mother/infant contacts exist, (2) the majority of studies confound timing and amount of contact, and (3) failure to consider underlying mechanisms results in the omission of designs and dependent measures that could address…