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Standard Errors Of Measurement For Extreme Scores, Sonya L. Blixt

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

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Developing A Valid Methodology For The Study Of Prospective Teachers' Perceptions Of Giftedness/Talent, Chao-Ying Joanne Peng, Samuel L. Guskin

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

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Nongifted Elementary And Middle School Children's Sociometric Choices Of Gifted Vs. Nongifted Helpers, Jay C. Adler, Richard J. Mueller, Donald Ary

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

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The Effect Of Content Mapping Upon Memory For Main Ideas, Peter C. Murrell Jr.

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

Text mapping is a learning strategy in which textual material is transformed into a spatial-pictorial representation--one that expresses concepts and the relations between them. The present study addressed a variant of text mapping, termed content mapping, which combined text material with instructional content. It was hypothesized that the use of content mapping as a learning strategy would enhance the long-term recall of main ideas. Subjects were exposed to content map models in the context of classroom instruction, and later were asked to free recall information from the map-relevant topic. The memory performance of "mappers" was superior to that of "nonmappers" …

Interval Lengths Required For Unbiased Frequency And Duration Estimates With Partial, Whole, And Momentary Time Sampling, Donald Ary, Hoi K. Suen

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

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Identifying The Study Behavior Of College Students With A 46-Item Inventory, Richard J. Mueller, Anthony S. Feiza

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

Educational researchers and the public alike are developing a strong interest in the subject of study skills. "Metacognition"--the understanding and control of one's own learning strategies--is emerging as a prominent part of the study of cognition. Researchers are focusing on the total age range of the metacognitive process, from "metamemory" and "metalanguage" processes that begin around the age of 5, all the way to the measurement of specific study behaviors and attitudes of mature adults who have returned to school for academic or vocational enrichment (DiVesta, 1982). For the first time, the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors (1984) lists "metacognition" as …

Assessment Of Judgmental Prior Distributions In The Bayesian Inferential Process, Hoi K. Suen, Robert A. Karabinus

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

This study compared the accuracies of the t-distribution method suggested by Suen (1983, 1984) with the natural conjugate distribution (NCD) method in combining subjective distributions to form a single joint prior that, when combined with empirical data, generated the most accurate estimate of the actual mean values. It was found that the t-distribution process yielded more accurate posterior information than the NCD process.

Front Matter, Leonard Kise, Robert Rosemier

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

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Teacher Education Reform, Anthony J. White, David E. Suddick

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

Teacher education reform has been the focus of inquiry for many years (Joyce & Clift, 1984). However, a study entitled A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, published by the National Commission on Excellence (1983), led to literally hundreds of conferences and institutes in 1983 and 1984 (Gardner, 1984). A general consensus that reformation of teacher education is long overdue exists in professional literature. Yet very little agreement exists as to the specifics of the agenda. For example, consider the position set forth by Joyce and Clift (1984), which was commented upon by Imig (1984) and then countered …

Effects Of Simultaneous, Multisensory Instruction On Daily Spelling Performance Of Learning Disabled Students, Berttram Chiang, Mary M. Bruyette

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

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1983 Mwera Convention Supplement, John J. Kennedy

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

1983 MWERA Convention Supplement

President's Address At Midwestern Educational Research Association Annual Convention At Kansas City: Compuserve Forum For Educational Research, Jean Pierce

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

President's Address

Cross-Partitions For Identifying Appropriate Multivariate Statistics, Donald Ary, David G. Curby

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

By determining whether independent or dependent variables, or both, are multivariate and specifying the scale of measurement of the variables an appropriate multivariate statistical procedure can be identified. Reference are given for locating additional information on these procedures.

For many years Tatsuoka and Tiedeman's (1963) cross partition in Gages' Handbook of Research in Teaching has been a useful tool for identifying an appropriate statistic for a particular research question. Since its publication many new statistical procedures have been developed, particularly for use with multivariate designs. The purpose of this article is to incorporate the new procedures and those in Tatsuoka …

Back Matter, Leonard K. Kise, Robert A. Rosemier

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

Includes Membership Application and Constitution and Bylaws.

Brain-Based Curricula: Salvation Or Snake Oil?, Barbara Ann Hutson

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

Presidential address to the annual conference of the Mid-Western Educational Research Association.

Evaluation Competency And The Professional Development Of Evaluators, James R. Sanders

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

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1982-83 Convention Issue, Leonard K. Kise, Roberta Starkey

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

Convention Issue

A Comparison Of Maximum Likelihood And A Bayesian Ability Estimation Procedure For Tailored Testing, Martin A. Rosso, Mark D. Reckase

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

In tailored testing there are two commonly used methods of operation. These two methods on a maximum likelihood ability estimation procedure and a Bayesian ability estimation procedure (Owen, 1975). The first procedure estimates a subject's ability after each item using an empirical maximum likelihood technique. The ability estimate is then used to select the next item in such a way that the item information is maximized at that ability level (Birnbaum, 1968). With the second procedure, ability is estimated as the mean of the posterior ability distribution and items are selected to minimize the posterior variance of the ability estimate …

Front Matter, Leonard K. Kise, Jean W. Pierce

Mid-Western Educational Researcher (1981 - 1987)

Includes Publication Information, Editorial Board, From the Editors, and Table of Contents.