Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

The secret of the set studies vhich I am going to present can be
attributed to direct communication and automatic feedback.
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To show you the importance of proper and correct communicatfvt
procQdure T vould like to rtac! a copy of the registration form 1 filled
out when I registered for this military tQstinp association symposium.
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sow 1 will briefly cover the need for conducting set studies. John
R. Carrolls article “XQRlQctrd Areas in Educationai Rrscarch” prrsented
in numhcr 42. Flay 1961 issue of :tt:& Phi &lta Rappan s:atQd that
“Research has told us littlt about the role of motivation in school
1Qarninp.” ‘Lrt us take for Rrantcd that notivat ion is the sense of
villinpnQss on the part of thr Learner to rppage in learning.” Studies
of both intrinsic and rxtrfnsic motivation arQ nerdec’.
S. L. PrrssQy and F. P. Rohinson StatQd in their article “Psycholo} and
the New F&cat ion .‘. Informing? students rrpardinp :teir work is QSSWtit.
for intQlliRtnt learninp. If rral lift tests are brought to the point
where both stutient and teachrr can SQ informed about proRrQss in thr
devrlopmcnt of social adjustments, interests and attitudes this would
he splrnded.
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The only study which I could find that ‘rven vaguely resembled the
SET studret was located in thQ twcntp-ninth yQarbook of the Narional
Society for the study of Qducation and was published in 1930.
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THE DESICX M! RESULTS OF THE STUOY ARE AS F;OLLGXS:
Two Qqui\*alQnt proups?of 35R Fourth grade pupils vert given identical
arithmetic drill cxercisos for 15 minutes a!week for twenty-one uecks.
The only variable was sprcific knovledcr of itorovement. The menbcrs
of.the control Rroup never rccQivQd their veekly scores. Those in the
PYpQrfmQntaL ClaSsPs kept int!iVidual ;roprrks charts and pooled their
losses or Rains in a graphic rcpr.*srntatfon of improvcmcnt of the class
as a vhole. ThQ rccor? of actual frnrrcvrm, dt
was made possible by using
r’rtll units for whfc?; rompara’\lQ stanc’ards $a2 been provided. T!:is
scoriny c’evicc compcnsa:Qd for dtffQrencQ 3; difficulty of the tasks.
ThQ Rronp yahict. had contfnuous informa: ion /conccrninF improvement
mar’c sipnificantly prra:rr pains than the rcntrol proup.
This in$tcatts chat if %Luitn:s are $novl~&able of \;hat resuiremcnts
are Qxpccted of then ant’ rhev are made avpre of their progress there
should bQ an improvQmQnt i? their overal 1’ pcrformancc. -.
?lcase refer to the self Fvaluaticn instrument for the r-elders.
(Arpc”c’ix A;
Several classes wcrc USPC! to vaiida:e this instrument. ihc first,
second an2 third instruments vcre discariec’ and this instrunen: Las
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