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Download full textGreenberger, Ellen – 1972
The psychosocial maturity scale (PSM) described in several earlier papers is a self-report questionnaire. It is vulnerable, as are other questionnaires of this type, to respondents' wishes to present themselves in a socially desirable light. In this study, scores on two social desirability scales are examined in relation to PSM. Correlations…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, High School Students, Maturity (Individuals), Maturity Tests
Peer reviewedRoche, Alex F.; And Others – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1983
Serial data for 268 normal boys and girls were obtained and used to calculate predicted adult statures without using skeletal age. The data can be used to measure physical maturity in 5- to 15-year-old boys and 3- to 13-year-old girls without invasion of privacy or radiological techniques. (Author/PP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Chronological Age, Females, Males
Furr, Karl D. – J Sch Psychol, 1968
Test is essentially uncorrelated with individual intelligence test results and underestimates systematically the intelligence of a substantial number of children. Its use as a screening device or as a measure of intelligence is questioned. (Author)
Descriptors: Handicapped Children, Maturity Tests, Mild Mental Retardation, Psychological Testing
Peer reviewedAndrew, June M. – Criminal Justice and Behavior, 1980
Confirms the previous suggestion that I-level and Verbal IQ are significantly related--for males, but not for females. The effect among males disappeared when age was introduced as a variable. Two of the variables, age and Verbal IQ, unexpectedly related strongly. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Delinquency, Intelligence Quotient
Jones, Hedy J.; Newman, Isadore – 1993
The effectiveness of using the Perry Scheme of Intellectual and Ethical Development (PSIED) was assessed with vocationally undecided students. Erwin's 1981 Scale of Intellectual Development (SID) was administered to 290 vocationally undecided college students (131 males and 156 females ranging aged 17 to 42 years with a mean age of 20.2 years) at…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Choice, Career Development, College Students
Peer reviewedGomolak, Charlotte – Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1975
This article discusses the SCAM Program, a screening method that matches athletes in grades 7 to 12, ages 12 to 19, by physical maturity, fitness, and skill instead of age. (JS)
Descriptors: Age Groups, Athletes, Junior High Schools, Maturity Tests
Richardson, Mary S.; And Others – 1976
Two studies, the second essentially a replication of the first, were conducted to clarify the meaning of vocational maturity in female career development. The sample consisted of 55 college women in the first study and 145 women in the second study. Correlational analysis examined the relationship of vocational maturity, using the Career Maturity…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Educational Objectives, Females, Maturity Tests
Moore, Loren I. – Group Organization Studies, 1976
The Follower Maturity Index (FMI) is an instrument derived from leadership theory and based on observations of verbal and nonverbal behavior of followers in task groups. Dimensions of follower maturity--achievement, responsibility, experience, activity, dependence, variety, interests, perspective, position, and awareness--are discussed. For…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics, Group Membership
Peer reviewedGoldman, Jeffrey A.; Olczak, Paul V. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1976
Attempts to relate psychosocial maturity to social behavior, specifically, to interpersonal attraction. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Experiments, Interpersonal Relationship, Maturity Tests, Measurement Instruments
Peer reviewedGoldman, Ruth K. – Developmental Psychology, 1971
This study supports the hypothesis that children reared in group-care settings are not necessarily retarded in their psychosocial development in comparison to family-reared children. They may, in fact, depending upon group-care philosophy and practice, as well as reasons for admission, surpass their home-reared counterparts in psychological…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cross Cultural Studies, Family Life, Institutionalized Persons
Peer reviewedGroome, Agnes Jean – Simulation and Games, 1975
The article reports a lack of significant increase in career maturity in 11th grade students who took part in the simulation "Life Career" for one school day. (CD)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Career Planning, Games
Brennan, Maurine – 1985
This report, one of several prepared for a comprehensive policy study of early childhood education in Illinois, provides a technical review of the following twelve instruments for screening, assessing, and diagnosing young children's readiness for school: Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Early Development; Brigance K & 1 Screen for Kindergarten…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Maturity Tests, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedMaynor, Waltz; Katzenmeyer, W. G. – Journal of Negro Education, 1974
The major thrust of the study reported here was to determine whether statistically significant differences occur in the measured achievement of a group of black, Indian, and white children in a newly integrated tri-racial school system. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, American Indians, Black Students
Singh, Balwant; And Others
The Responsiblity Test measures the secondary school student's level of knowledge (remembering or recall, understanding and thinking) of social responsibility, other types of responsibility, the benefits and costs of responsibility, the conditions and conflicts of responsibility, and ways of providing responsible behavior. It consists of 21…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Affective Objectives, Answer Keys, Ethics
University City School District, MO. – 1965
A CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR TEACHING EIGHTH-GRADE ENGLISH WAS DEVELOPED IN 1965 AT UNIVERSITY CITY, MISSOURI. FOUR UNITS ARE PRESENTED IN DETAILED OUTLINE FORM--"PAST THROUGH PROLOGUE,""GROWING UP,""WHAT IS HUMOR," AND "HEROES, REAL AND UNREAL." THREE OTHER UNITS ARE SUGGESTED BUT NOT OUTLINED--"VALUE AND…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bibliographies, Curriculum Guides, English
