Eleven studies made between 1958 and 1960 gathered information about the conditions under which children seek out television and under which TV has an effect on them. This book describes these studies and reports and interprets their results. In the first few chapters, some of the changes TV has made in the child's world are described, and…

Three quantitative measures which assess instructional material in terms of the rationale of adapting are reported. The first index is termed the consequence ratio, which evaluates diagnostic items in terms of how effectively time is used. The second measure, termed predictive validity, evaluates the accuracy of diagnostic test predictions. The…

The High School Characteristics Index (HSCI) is an instrument designed to measure environmental press. Measurement characteristics of the HSCI used to measure differences among the responses of individuals are contrasted with those obtained for the HSCI used to measure differences among aggregate group responses. (Author)

The authors administered the Isolation Symptomatology Questionnaire to persons living in Antarctica who were either well or maladjusted to their environment. Eliminating those items not discriminating between the two groups, the authors constructed a new isolation scale. (SE)

New residents in University halls hoped for more help from housing staff than they got and some formed negative impressions of staff before they moved in. Satisfiers stemmed from variables intrinsic to dorm life and dissatisfiers stemmed from extrinsic variables. (Author)

For the sake of simplicity and brevity, the development of psychometrics is discussed mainly in the context of studies of individual differences. (Author/AM)

A model derived from information processing theory is described, which helps to explain the complex verbal learning of students and suggests implications for lecturing techniques. Other factors affecting learning, which are not covered by the model, are discussed in relationship to it: student's intellectual development and effects of individual…

Neither racial minorities nor women should be made the scapegoats for the numbers and admissions crunch. Larger issues of admissions should be reexamined. The assumption that only numerical indices measure "quality" or "merit" or potential for performance in a profession should be questioned. (Author/EB)

Ability test scores were decomposed into district, class, and individual components. First-order factor analyses at the individual level showed the usual Primary Mental Abilities test pattern. Second-order analyses grouped the primary factors into one power and one speed factor. Decomposition of variances in multilevel educational research is…

Describes the impact of interdisciplinary thinking on research activities of individuals within the peace research movement. Identifies peace researchers by disciplinary affiliation as 35 percent political scientists, 21 percent sociologists, 14 percent lawyers, 8 percent general systems practitioners, and approximately 6 percent each from the…

Few mean personality differences exist between adolescent boys grouped according to high verbal or high mathematical ability. However, within each of these groups there are dependable personality correlates of differences between verbal and quantitative ability. In particular, boys with higher verbal scores seem independent, rational, reflective,…

The author discusses competency-based teacher education and the disagreements about what "competent" means. Among his examples is the Dilemma of the Ditto: can teachers be "competent" without knowing how to run a ditto machine? This is really a profound question because it represents an entire class of questions. (MF)

A factor analysis was used to study the relationships among response time and accuracy scores for a verbal analogies test, as well as a number of experimental variables designed to measure a series of information processing stages of the analogies task. (CTM)

Person changes can be of three kinds: developmental trends, swells, and tremors. Person unreliability in the tremor sense (momentary fluctuations) can be estimated from person characteristic curves. Average person reliability for groups can be compared from item characteristic curves. (Author)

Shows how subjects' varying levels of academic achievement influenced their judgments of the grammatical acceptability of simple sentences, suggesting that differing levels of deep structure accompany differing levels of education. (RL)