Open AccessTHE KINDS OF ITEMS THAT WORK IN AN INTEREST ACTIVITIES INDEX
Author(s) -
French John W.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
ets research bulletin series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2333-8504
pISSN - 0424-6144
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1964.tb00508.x
Subject(s) - popularity , psychology , reading (process) , index (typography) , field (mathematics) , scale (ratio) , work (physics) , mathematics education , applied psychology , social psychology , medical education , computer science , mathematics , medicine , engineering , world wide web , geography , political science , mechanical engineering , cartography , pure mathematics , law
One hundred items, half of the items in the Cooperative Interest Index , which consists of a list of activities familiar to high‐school students, were analyzed against freshman grades in six different subjects, against satisfaction with 11 different major fields, and with regard to their popularity among students majoring in the same 11 fields. Almost all of the items in the scale for a particular field showed themselves to be more popular among majors in that field than among majors in any other field. With grades and with satisfaction, however, the relationships of the items to their corresponding fields as well as the validities for the scales were found to be less good. While the differences are not clear, the grade criteria were usually found to be best predicted by items that pertain to academic learning activities or situations in which younger students are more likely to have participated, while the satisfaction criteria are best predicted by reading activities or activities that suggest professional work in the field.