Three methods of assessing college environment (student perceptions, student self-reports, and objective institutional data) were compared by use of multimethod factor analysis, a new technique which removes method variance by focusing on correlations between rather than within methods of measurement. (CK)

This study focuses on the relative importance attached to selected undergraduate teaching goals. Results support the merits of Holland's Theory as a conceptual framework guiding formulation of academic policies and investigations of discipline-based differences in attitudes and activities of academic professionals. (Author/GK)

Examines the relationship between undergraduates' perception of their classroom environment, their adoption of achievement goals for the course, and their graded performance and intrinsic motivation. Results reveal that each of the three achievement goals evidenced a distinct antecedent profile. Proposes that achievement goals serve the role of…

Examines the types of stressful situations graduate students encounter and delineates styles of coping with these situations. (Author/DEP)

This study investigated how one important variable, the child's performance, affected the teacher's perception of a child and the causal source of his performance. (Author)

Study investigated whether instruments assessing the sociopsychological climate of classrooms were appropriate from the students' perspective. The Classroom Environment Scale was administered to 185 high school students. Results indicated that students' importance ratings of sociopsychological climate structures validated a three- dimensiona1…

The classroom as a context affecting memory was investigated using a multiple time-series design. Two undergraduate classes were given quizzes in their regular classroom over a baseline period, were moved to a different room, and finally were returned to their classroom. Moving had a significant deleterious effect. (Author/RD)

Examines the structure of perceived school climate and the relationship of climate dimensions to adaptation of students who attend middle-grade-level schools. The climate scales exhibited a stable dimensional structure, high levels of internal consistency, and moderate levels of stability. Ratings of multiple climate dimensions were associated…

Elementary school children were interviewed about their perceptions of school in two domains. The action domain tapped perceptions of their actual and ideal prerogatives with respect to privacy, territoriality, and decision making. The value domain addressed children's evaluations of the school as a safe, just, responsive, important, and liked…

The present research was based on the premise that reading comprehension involves complex organizational strategies on the part of the reader, through which he detects meanings and interrelationships of the substantive material within the passage. (Author)

Results of the present and previous studies indicate the consistency of achieving improved performance through the low comparison level. (Author)

The pattern of significant criteria suggests a decreasing emphasis on higher level cognitive processes, involvement, and independence from Grades 6 through 10 and an increasing emphasis on lower level cognitive processes such as memorization. (Authors)

The hypothesis that the correlation of measures on the same characteristic at two points in time will approach unity when the relevant, intervening environment is added to the prediction equation is tested on a sample of high school physics students. (Author/AG)