THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO INVESTIGATE A TESTING METHOD FOR OBTAINING OBJECTIVE, QUANTIFIED, PREDICTIVE MEASURES OF EDUCABILITY FOR MENTAL RETARDATES. THE METHOD WAS DESIGNED TO MEASURE ABILITIES ON WHICH EDUCATION DEPENDS--NAMELY, THE ABILITY TO LEARN UNDER TRAINING, TO TRANSFER THE TRAINING, AND TO RETAIN THE LEARNING. TWO SAMPLES WERE…

THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS OF 262 DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING STUDENTS (GRADES 7 TO 9) IN THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE PRESENTED IN TABLE FORM--(1) THE TEST USED TO SECURE AN INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT AND THE NUMBER OF PUPILS TESTED, (2) THE YEAR THE IQ TEST WAS GIVEN AND THE NUMBER OF PUPILS TESTED, (3) ACHIEVEMENT TESTS USED AND THE NUMBER OF…

The psychometric adequacy of three sex role instruments was determined by performing a factor analysis on the items in the Bem Sex Role Inventory, the Personal Attributes Questionnaire, and Heilbrun's Masculinity and Feminity Subscales. Subjects were 400 college students who responded to 116 bipolar items from the three instruments. The eleven…

A CONFERENCE WAS HELD FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING GUIDELINES FOR A STATUS SURVEY AND RESEARCH PROJECT IN AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION. THREE BACKGROUND PAPERS WERE PRESENTED WHICH PROVIDED AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF PREVIOUS RESEARCH IN INDIAN EDUCATION, ANALYZED CURRENT RESEARCH, AND CONSIDERED CURRENT ACTION PROGRAMS. PANELISTS DISCUSSED THE KINDS…

THIS PAPER PRESENTS FIRST A SUMMARY OF RESEARCH INVESTIGATING THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE KINDERGARTEN CHILD HAS ABSTRACTED IMPLICIT REGULARITIES IN THE FORMATION OF PLURALS IN ENGLISH. PRODUCTION AND RECOGNITION TASKS WERE USED. THE CHILDREN MADE MORE ERRORS WITH SYLLABLES REQUIRING THE ADDITION OR DELETION OF THE /IZ/ ALLOMORPH THAN WITH SYLLABLES…

The purpose of this study was to determine if the California Test of Personality and Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale could be used as screening instruments for Air Force Security Police. Thirty-six Air Force Security Police assigned to TUSLOG Det 94-2, Turkey comprised the sample for this study. The variables measured by the instruments--personal…

The goal of this research project was to design a personality test which would help select, guide, and place prospective teachers into situations where they would be happiest and most effective. A Developmental Self and Child Concept Scales (DSCCS) test was developed and administered to 81 women attending a graduate teacher training program. In…

Three groups of 36, institutionalized retarded, noninstitutionalized retarded and normal children equated on mental age were evaluated on a measure of psychological distance, the Sticker Family Game. Significantly less psychological distance was found between the child and parental figures in the retarded groups than in the normal groups. (Author)

Review of reversal learning data obtained from Ss of various developmental phases suggested that overtraining increases perseveration in pre-school children, and decrease perseveration in older (e.g., 1st grade) children. The present experiment tested this apparent trend. Children of two age groups (X = 4 yrs., 4 mos., vs. X = 6 yrs., 5 mos.)…

In earlier research, Sedlacek and Brooks provided evidence for the validity of a measure of attitudes of whites towards blacks. In developing the Situational Attitude Scale (SAS) one of their major methodological points was that an appropriate measure of racial attitudes would provide a racial context to make difficult the psychological withdrawal…

The development of the reading-study skills program at Georgia Southwestern College, with support from Title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965, was described. Emphasis was on delineating the role of the skills instructor in the college reading development program as reflected by the needs of the student population. The following…

Techniques for developing the potential of culturally deprived people cannot be developed without more knowledge of the basic mechanisms of mental change. Psysiological generation and regeneration are both apparently governed by the same set of mechanisms. Regeneration is possible only when a part of the damaged structure is left, and these…

The rationale underlying tests of social intelligence and some of the problems inherent in those tests are discussed. To measure social intelligence, paper and pencil tests were developed which were "situation free." These tests employed "stereotypic behavior of individual others." The stimuli used in the behavioral tests were…

The objective of this study was to develop a low-cost predictive and observational tool for the early detection of disturbed children and the prevention of childhood mental illness. A self-administered questionnaire with approximately 30 items was filled out by parents concerning their children before the child entered nursery school. Following…

This study hypothesized that disadvantaged black children could achieve higher creativity scores if they were provided with stimulating experiences appropriate to psychological warm-up immediately before they were tested for figural and verbal creative thinking ability. The subjects were 105 first grade children divided into three experimental…