This paper presents a theoretical construct that can be used to describe the implementation process of school programs in terms of a multi-dimensional model. Focusing on the research process of the Urban Education Studies, which is devoted to the identification and study of educational programs which are beginning to make inroads for the…

Twenty-three tenth grade male students from an urban, parochial preparatory schools participated in this study, along with two male geometry teachers. On the basis of the Group Embedded Figures Test, one teacher was assigned field dependent students, and the other teacher was assigned field independent students. The field dependent class evaluated…

In a recently conducted study it was found that an effective college teacher could be characterized chiefly in terms of "research", "teaching", and "service to the university". The present experiment corroborated these findings using a relatively unknown approach to data collection, analysis, and interpretation. A free-response method of data…

Ranking and rating methods of making direct judgments of pairwise similarity are compared. Three dimensional configurations of seven objects are derived under both judgment methods across two equivalent groups of 59 university students. Using Cliff's orthogonal rotation method of multidimensional matching, comparisons are made between methods…

A computer-interactive multidimensional scaling program was used together with free response methods to represent and label dimensions of individual cognitive structure underlying persons' perceptions. The dimensional structures derived were predictive of semantic differential, paired comparison, and Repertory Grid Test triad judgments.…

Anglo and black children at two age levels and of both sexes judged the similarity of 12 stimulus persons, using a proximity setting technique. Resultant dimensions were interpreted as racial identification, sex, and age. (Author/JKS)

Achievement motivation was successfully measured among male and female college students by having the students rate eight Thematic Apperception Test cards for similarity and scaling the results in two dimensions: number of persons and degree of strong affect. The Rorschach Inkblot Test was not effective in determining need for achievement. (CTM)

Multidimensional scaling analysis was used to examine a sample of adolescents' cognitive appraisals of major and daily stressful events. The desirability of events was the only major feature for the entire sample. Older adolescents also distinguished the impact of events on their lives and generality of causes of events. (Author/JAZ)

Describes the use of ALSCAL, a computer program for multidimensional scaling, to map enrollment in 49 electives at Drexel University's College of Information Studies during two time periods. The results for this department are presented, and the explanatory power of this evaluation technique for any curriculum is discussed. (6 references) (CLB)

The Endler S-R Inventory of General Trait Anxiousness was analyzed employing Smallest Space Analysis (SSA) and factor analysis. The SSA yielded a two-dimensional lattice partitioning the space into regions corresponding to the situations specified in the inventory. The factor-analytic results were similar but not as informative. (Author/JAZ)

A general model for conceptualization methods is presented along with considerations for implementation. The model is illustrated in two planning and evaluation studies which involved a broad range of constituent groups within the organizations in the development of "concept maps." General implications of conceptualization methods are…

A method of nonmetric multidimensional scaling is described which minimizes pairwise departures from monotonicity. (Author)

The interdistances between thirteen places situated in different parts of the world were estimated by 60 subjects. The estimates were analysed by Kruskal's multidimensional technique and, after a cosine transformation, by factor analysis. (Author)

Acquisition of style recognition was studied in a category abstraction paradigm. Subjects classified impressionist paintings, according to artist, and were tested for immediate or delayed transfer. Experience with examples of a style yielded greater classification accuracy for new examples. Conceptual structure was correlated with transfer…