Two components of sophistication of researchers are increased knowledge of and attitudes toward educational research. The topic of this paper is the exploration of the status of these components in a sample of public school teachers. (Author)

This study was designed to test the hypothesis that a semantic differential instrument can serve as a functional affective measuring device. (Author)

The study sought to identify the language, perceptual, demographic, and intellectual factors capable of discriminating between groups of good, average, and poor first-grade students as determined by a standardized reading test. (Editor)

This article is based on a study of educational goals in the State of Maryland, and offers findings of the study as related to fine arts education, with recommendations for action on the basis of these findings. (Author)

The present study was initiated to investigate the comparability of multiple-choice and true-false item formats when the time necessary to respond to each type of item was equated empirically. (Editor)

This study provided the opportunity to examine the relationship of achievement in mathematics to class size and to the number of hours of mathematics instruction received each week. (RK)

The research reported here investigates how fulfilling or not fulfilling threats or promises affects the credibility of later influence attempts. (Author)

The current study was initated as an attempt to further inquiry, in which the child comes to perceive and make attributions to social others, by examining the developmental changes in the bases for such perception. (Author/RK)

This report focuses on a set of supplemental analyses that were performed on portions of the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) evaluation data. The goal of these analyses was to explore additional relationships in the data that might help to inform program policy, to confirm and/or further explicate some of the findings reported earlier, and to put…

The National Survey of Science, Mathematics, and Social Studies Education was conducted in the spring of 1977 as part of the National Science Foundation's comprehensive needs assessment program. The survey utilized a national probability sample of districts, schools, and teachers. Approximately 10,000 teachers, principals, superintendents, and…

The project had three objectives: (1) to examine from a multi-disciplinary perspective the theoretical and operational meanings of the concept occupation, to develop a conceptualization which could synthesize the major emphases extant in several disciplines and to develop reliable measures of occupational characteristics consistent with the new…

Properties of measures and models of social mobility are analyzed in relation to the conceptualization of mobility, two main objectives of mobility research identified are: the study of determinants of occupational achievement; and the study of mobility as a characteristic of social systems. Factors responsible for hindrance of realization of…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress was established for the purpose of providing reliable information describing what young Americans know and do. This article described that assessment. (Author/RK) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Program Description.

The present study considered whether it is better to dream about a stressful presleep experience and have anxious dreams, or is it better to dream about something else and have pleasant dreams. (Author/RK)

This paper was concerned with the correlation between the extent of a youth self-defined rebellion and 1) perceived parental marital happiness; 2) the restrictiveness-permissiveness of perceived child rearing practices; and 3) perceived division of authority of parents. (Author/RK)