The purposes of this study were to determine which of the tests, PPVT, SIT, or Lorge-Thorndike (LT), may be the most useful to the classroom teacher in predicting reading achievement, for use in reading expectancy formulas, and for analyzing I.Q. scores obtained on different tests. (Author/RK)

In this article some problems, such as the tests employed to assess motivation, are considered together with suggestions for developing an instrument more in accordance with the achievement motivation theory as represented by the McClelland-Atkinson tradition. (Author/RK)

Article considers predictive factors in determining student success in secondary school and the correlation of social status and other variables. (RK)

An item sampling model for achievement testing with items scored in an arbitrary number of categories is investigated. (Author)

Scores of almost one thousand student-teachers and post-graduate students in the Faculty of Education at Edmonton on thirty key variables of personality, values, educational and social attitudes were analyzed. (Author)

Results of this study serve to dispel the assumption that the teachers' image is a derogatory one. However, the stereotype provides few clues to the public's rationale for its evaluation of the profession. (Author/CB)

Judgement Analysis was the instrument used to assess firemen's attitudes toward leadership roles; five tables of statistical data were presented (BB)

Results indicate that a small number of high frequency words continues to dominate children's writing. However, the actual words within this core appear to indicate a noticeable change from previous studies done in the U.S.A. (Author)

This study evaluated the objectives of the preservice elementary teacher education program at the University of Rochester; proposals for improvement of the program were also gathered. (BB)

Ratings from the Institutional Functioning Inventory (IFI) by faculty and administrators at the University of Northern Colorado were compared with group norms in the article; two tables of statistical data were included. (BB)

Purpose of this inquiry is to find out if a child's choice of vocation is conditioned by the class culture in which he is reared. (Author)

Eight of the hypotheses supported by the Harvard data were again supported in the Montreal sample, though only two of the replications reached statistical significance. (Authors)