H J Butcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 2330853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H J Butcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | H J |
| FAMILY NAME | Butcher |
| SIGNATURE | BUTCHER H J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Contemporary Problems in Higher Education: An Account of Research
Educational Research in Britain 3
Educational Research in Britain II
Educational Research in Britain
The Structure of Abilities, Interests and Personality in 1,000 Scottish School Children
S ummary . About 1,000 Scottish secondary school children likely to enter one of the two Edinburgh universities were given tests of ability, aptitude, personality and interests. The main aim was to determine (at an early age and before they were required to specialise) which were potential university scientists. The most relevant measures for this purpose were identified by factor analysis, and the general structure of abilities, personality and …
Opinions About Careers Among Scottish Secondary School Children of High Ability
S ummary . As part of a research into subject choice in Scottish senior secondary schools, 1,100 pupils were required to rate 15 careers on 6 criteria and to write essays about their future careers. Boys and girls agreed quite closely on, for example, the usefulness and prestige of the careers, but differed markedly about liking and interest. Boys put ‘engineer’ highest on ‘liking,’ but much lower on ‘salary’ and prestige; girls put ‘teacher’ (of…
Teachers' Attitudes to Education
S ummary . Three scales measuring attitudes to education were administered to a representative sample of 300 teachers. The results were analysed by sex, age, political party, religious affiliation and type of school. Tests of significance were applied, both to the relation between these biographical categories and to differences in attitude between the groups of teachers
The Personality Pattern of Creative Artists
Sixty-three visual artists and twenty-eight craft students were compared with a matched control group. Significant differences in mean scores between artists and controls were found on twelve factors of the 16PF test. On eleven of these twelve factors, the scores of the craft students were intermediate between those of the artists and the controls. Especially salient features of the artists' personality pattern were A - (reserved, schizothyme ten…
Creativity and Intelligence: A Partial Replication With Scottish Children of Getzels‘ and Jackson's Study
Getzels & Jackson (1962) found that, when two contrasting groups of children were formed, one of high scorers on tests of divergent thinking or ‘creativity’, the other of high i.q. , ( a ) both groups scored equally on tests of attainment, ( b ) teachers rated the ‘high creativity’ group rather lower on desirability as pupils. In the whole sample (mean i.q. 132) from which the groups were drawn correlations between i.q . and measures of creativit…
Sampling in Educational Research
Are Rural Children Handicapped by the Use of Speeded Tests in Selection Procedures
S ummary . It is widely believed in country areas that the country child is at a disadvantage in the working of speeded tests. This hypothesis was tested by the comparison of two samples, each of about 300 children aged 10–11, one from rural Westmorland, one from central Manchester. Power and speed scores were obtained from N.F.E.R. tests of Arithmetic, English and Verbal Reasoning. Almost all net differences were statistically significant in the…
Predicting Student Performance in a University Department of Education
S ummary . One hundred teachers in training in the Department of Education, University of Manchester, were tested with measures of abilities, personality, interests, values and general culture, and provided a considerable range of biographical information. The predictive power of these various measures was examined in terms of three main criteria—final teaching mark, final theory mark, and award of the Graduate Certificate in Education. Degree cl…
Personality Factors and School Achievement: A Comparison of British and American Children
Samples of 12-14 year-old British and American children were tested with Cattell's HSPQ, and their mean scores compared on fourteen personality factors and two second-order factors (extraversion and anxiety). Significant differences were found on a number of factors and, in particular, the British children were found to be less sociable, more assertive and less conscientious. The pattern of prediction of school achievement was compared, and the s…
The Dynamic Structure of Attitudes in Adults: A Description of Some Established Factors and of Their Measurement by the Motivational Analysis Test
In a systematic programme of research, two sets of factors have been repeatedly confirmed. Those of the first type are referred to as dynamic factors and comprise ( a ) drives or ‘ergs’ and ( b ) sentiments. These have been found when a wide range of adult attitudes has been measured by disguised tests and the results inter‐correlated and factor analysed. The factors of the second type are referred to as motivation components and are derived from…
A Note on Scale Product and Related Methods of Scoring Attitude Scales
Attitude scales constructed by Thurstone's method of equal‐appearing intervals may also be scored by Thurstone's method or by Likert's or by a combination of two. Some possible advantages of a combined method are described. Three variants of such a combined method are distinguished, and their characteristics discussed. In case of two of these, no evidence is found to show that they possess any advantage over Likert's method of scoring, and some e…
Opinions About Careers Among Scottish Secondary School Children of High Ability
S ummary . As part of a research into subject choice in Scottish senior secondary schools, 1,100 pupils were required to rate 15 careers on 6 criteria and to write essays about their future careers. Boys and girls agreed quite closely on, for example, the usefulness and prestige of the careers, but differed markedly about liking and interest. Boys put ‘engineer’ highest on ‘liking,’ but much lower on ‘salary’ and prestige; girls put ‘teacher’ (of…
The Personality Pattern of Creative Artists
Sixty-three visual artists and twenty-eight craft students were compared with a matched control group. Significant differences in mean scores between artists and controls were found on twelve factors of the 16PF test. On eleven of these twelve factors, the scores of the craft students were intermediate between those of the artists and the controls. Especially salient features of the artists' personality pattern were A - (reserved, schizothyme ten…
Personality Factors and School Achievement: A Comparison of British and American Children
Samples of 12-14 year-old British and American children were tested with Cattell's HSPQ, and their mean scores compared on fourteen personality factors and two second-order factors (extraversion and anxiety). Significant differences were found on a number of factors and, in particular, the British children were found to be less sociable, more assertive and less conscientious. The pattern of prediction of school achievement was compared, and the s…
Teachers' Attitudes to Education
S ummary . Three scales measuring attitudes to education were administered to a representative sample of 300 teachers. The results were analysed by sex, age, political party, religious affiliation and type of school. Tests of significance were applied, both to the relation between these biographical categories and to differences in attitude between the groups of teachers
A Note on Scale Product and Related Methods of Scoring Attitude Scales
Attitude scales constructed by Thurstone's method of equal‐appearing intervals may also be scored by Thurstone's method or by Likert's or by a combination of two. Some possible advantages of a combined method are described. Three variants of such a combined method are distinguished, and their characteristics discussed. In case of two of these, no evidence is found to show that they possess any advantage over Likert's method of scoring, and some e…
The Dynamic Structure of Attitudes in Adults: A Description of Some Established Factors and of Their Measurement by the Motivational Analysis Test
In a systematic programme of research, two sets of factors have been repeatedly confirmed. Those of the first type are referred to as dynamic factors and comprise ( a ) drives or ‘ergs’ and ( b ) sentiments. These have been found when a wide range of adult attitudes has been measured by disguised tests and the results inter‐correlated and factor analysed. The factors of the second type are referred to as motivation components and are derived from…
Are Rural Children Handicapped by the Use of Speeded Tests in Selection Procedures
S ummary . It is widely believed in country areas that the country child is at a disadvantage in the working of speeded tests. This hypothesis was tested by the comparison of two samples, each of about 300 children aged 10–11, one from rural Westmorland, one from central Manchester. Power and speed scores were obtained from N.F.E.R. tests of Arithmetic, English and Verbal Reasoning. Almost all net differences were statistically significant in the…
Predicting Student Performance in a University Department of Education
S ummary . One hundred teachers in training in the Department of Education, University of Manchester, were tested with measures of abilities, personality, interests, values and general culture, and provided a considerable range of biographical information. The predictive power of these various measures was examined in terms of three main criteria—final teaching mark, final theory mark, and award of the Graduate Certificate in Education. Degree cl…
Personality Factors and School Achievement: A Comparison of British and American Children
Samples of 12-14 year-old British and American children were tested with Cattell's HSPQ, and their mean scores compared on fourteen personality factors and two second-order factors (extraversion and anxiety). Significant differences were found on a number of factors and, in particular, the British children were found to be less sociable, more assertive and less conscientious. The pattern of prediction of school achievement was compared, and the s…
Creativity and Intelligence: A Partial Replication With Scottish Children of Getzels‘ and Jackson's Study
Getzels & Jackson (1962) found that, when two contrasting groups of children were formed, one of high scorers on tests of divergent thinking or ‘creativity’, the other of high i.q. , ( a ) both groups scored equally on tests of attainment, ( b ) teachers rated the ‘high creativity’ group rather lower on desirability as pupils. In the whole sample (mean i.q. 132) from which the groups were drawn correlations between i.q . and measures of creativit…
Sampling in Educational Research
The Personality Pattern of Creative Artists
Sixty-three visual artists and twenty-eight craft students were compared with a matched control group. Significant differences in mean scores between artists and controls were found on twelve factors of the 16PF test. On eleven of these twelve factors, the scores of the craft students were intermediate between those of the artists and the controls. Especially salient features of the artists' personality pattern were A - (reserved, schizothyme ten…
Opinions About Careers Among Scottish Secondary School Children of High Ability
S ummary . As part of a research into subject choice in Scottish senior secondary schools, 1,100 pupils were required to rate 15 careers on 6 criteria and to write essays about their future careers. Boys and girls agreed quite closely on, for example, the usefulness and prestige of the careers, but differed markedly about liking and interest. Boys put ‘engineer’ highest on ‘liking,’ but much lower on ‘salary’ and prestige; girls put ‘teacher’ (of…
Teachers' Attitudes to Education
S ummary . Three scales measuring attitudes to education were administered to a representative sample of 300 teachers. The results were analysed by sex, age, political party, religious affiliation and type of school. Tests of significance were applied, both to the relation between these biographical categories and to differences in attitude between the groups of teachers
The Structure of Abilities, Interests and Personality in 1,000 Scottish School Children
S ummary . About 1,000 Scottish secondary school children likely to enter one of the two Edinburgh universities were given tests of ability, aptitude, personality and interests. The main aim was to determine (at an early age and before they were required to specialise) which were potential university scientists. The most relevant measures for this purpose were identified by factor analysis, and the general structure of abilities, personality and …
Educational Research in Britain
Educational Research in Britain II
Contemporary Problems in Higher Education: An Account of Research
Educational Research in Britain 3
Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Personality (4 works) · Teacher Professional Development and Motivation (4 works)