David Morse

Mississippi State University (Emeritus)

A common metric in appraising the classroom and educational experience is student ratings of courses and faculty. Our purpose in this study was to investigate whether the ratings of faculty in a co-educational Middle Eastern university concerning observation of university rules and policy, communication with colleagues, and communication with stude...

Over the past several decades, non-technical competencies have been given an increasing amount of emphasis in veterinary medical training. However, additional research is needed to continue understanding the role that non-technical competencies play in veterinary success and wellness. An inter-related pair of non-technical competencies that needs f...

This study examines associations among organizational context, staff attributes, perceived importance, and use of best practices among staff in community-based, juvenile justice (JJ) agencies. As part of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Juvenile Justice—Translational Research on Interventions for Adolescents in the Legal System (JJ-TRIALS) st...

A review of 11 syntheses on increasing creativity revealed post-intervention gains in individuals of varied ages and diverse cognitive functioning, in studies employing various designs. However, syntheses of randomized treatment studies with adults were missing. To address this gap, we sought out studies on adults, aiming to increase divergent thi...

We used responses of two large samples of court-ordered participants from a statewide alcohol/driving safety program to investigate factor structure, score reliability, and criterion-related validity of the Short Inventory of Problems (SIP). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, using both item-level and subscore-level data, support a one-f...

Ample evidence exists in support of the influence of media, both traditional and electronic, on perceptions and engagement with alcohol marketing. We describe the development, calibration, and evidence for technical quality and utility for a new measure, the Alcohol Marketing Engagement Scale. Using two samples of college undergraduates (n1 = 199,...

For the better part of a century, methods have been illustrated for the enumeration of all possible permutations of cases from which an exact characterization of the likelihood of obtaining results as or more extreme as that observed may be determined without having to rely on parametric assumptions or schemes that may be only asymptotically correc...

The purpose of this study was to observe college students' behavior on five multiple-choice, self-tailored exams of 75 items. Self-tailoring was defined as an option to omit up to five questions from being scored on an exam. Ninety-nine students from two sections of an undergraduate educational psychology course made a statistically significant inc...

Adolescent girls incarcerated in a state reformatory (N = 246) were recruited and assigned to an 18-session health education program or a time-equivalent HIV prevention program. Cohorts were assigned to conditions using a randomized block design separated by a washout period to reduce contamination. Post intervention, girls in the HIV risk reductio...

Exposure to multiple traumatic events and high rates of mental health problems are common among juvenile offenders. This study draws on Conservation of Resources (COR) stress theory to examine the impact of a specific trauma, Hurricane Katrina, relative to other adverse life events, on the mental health of female adolescent offenders in Mississippi...

The purpose of this study was to conduct an exploratory factor analysis to provide support for the construct validity of the Positive Psychology Protective Profile, a self-report measure based on positive psychology. 985 undergraduates completed the profile, the Beck Depression Inventory, and the College Life Stress Inventory. Scores on the first t...

The present study assessed whether selected item characteristics--difficulty for the group, corrected item-total correlation, cognitive level, and difficulty for the examinee--relate to judgment of item difficulty. Undergraduate students in two classes (ns = 76, 43) identified what they believed were the five easiest and five most difficult items o...

This study examined the influence of time press, specific stimulus, and type of creativity prompt on fluency and flexibility scores of 75 undergraduates randomly assigned to condition. Three stimuli were administered, in three time allotments (2.5, 5.0, and 7.5 min), counterbalanced with three types of prompt intended to elicit higher fluency, flex...

Traditional assessments of divergent production have employed standard time press conditions of three minutes for measures of fluency, flexibility, and originality. Recent studies have provided evidence that the traditional time press condition may impede both fluency and quality of responses and that differences in divergent production responses h...

The American Psychological Association’s editorial style urges authors to provide effect size estimates. Several journals, including Educational and Psychological Measurement, have adopted author guidelines that call for determining the minimum sample size necessary for a given result to have been declared statistically significant. MINSIZE2, a com...

Although there is much research on test-wiseness, ease of exercising various test-taking skills has received scant attention. Participants in the present study were 243 undergraduate students who attempted the 70-item Gibb Experimental Test of Testwiseness, designed to measure seven test-wiseness skills. The results indicated the use of specific de...

Several journals, including Educational and Psychological Measurement, have adopted author guidelines that call for determining the minimum sample size necessary for a given result to have been declared statistically significant. MINSIZE, an MS-DOS computer program that permits the user to determine the minimum sample size needed for the results of...

The purpose of the study was to assess the stability of a two-factor model recently proposed for the Gibb Experimental Test of Testwiseness using confirmatory factor analysis. Participants were 173 undergraduate volunteers. Confirmatory factor analyses using LISREL 8 were performed using total scores on the seven skills as data. One- and two-factor...

This study assessed the factor structure of the WISC‐R with Mexican‐American students referred for intellectually gifted assessment. The students included 68 Mexican‐American students who were referred for evaluation for an intellectually gifted program. The 12 WISC‐R subtest scaled scores were used as the variables to be factored. The method of fa...

Responses of 31 samples of adults ( N = 2503) and 37 samples of children ( N = 7048) to the two parts of the Khatena-Torrance Creative Perception Inventory were used to estimate internal consistency reliabilities for total scales and factor scores and to estimate the reliability of group means. The information may be helpful to users of Something A...

Sounds and Images, a measure of originality, was administered to 131 English-speaking high school students of Orissa, India in 1987. The test has two forms, viz., IA and IB. Each form has four sounds which were presented three times. To each the students wrote their verbal images which were scored for originality and analyzed for effects of multipl...

The Khatena-Morse Multitalent Perception Inventory has two forms of 50 items designed to identify leadership, music, art, and creative talent of people of age 10 yr. and over. Most subjects can complete the inventory in 10 to 30 min. Scoring is done by counting affirmative responses; the total serves as a versatility index. Using responses of 6,186...

Mi~sissippi S&te University Summary.-This study examined the relationship between Kitton AdaptionInnovation Inventory total scores and self-estimates of the inventory scores to assess how accurately individuals can predict their adaptor or innovator status. Analysis in. dicated that 42 of 66 students (26 men, 40 women) classified themselves correct...

Summmy.-The Khatena-Morse Multitalent Perception Inventory was administered to 613 undergraduate students representing four groups: art majors, music majors, majors other than art taking an introductory art course, and majors in other disciplines. The groups' three subscores from the inventory (arc, music, and Other) were compared for differences i...

The purpose of this study is to describe the effect of brief training of students in use of creative imagination on a measure of hemispheric learning style. 73 students were randomly assigned to control and training groups based on their style. The latter group received 2 hr. of training in use of creative imagination. Nonsignificant difference in...

The Khatena-Morse Multitalent Perception Inventory has two forms of 50 items each designed to identify leadership, music, art, and creative talent of people age 10 yr. and over. It was developed on the basis of previous research and hypotheses about these areas of talent reported and used by the first author in the construction of earlier records f...

-This study investigated the effects of repeated presentation of sound stimuli on verbal originality. 104 gifted adolescents were administered Thinking Creatively with Sounds and Words. Analysis indicated significant increases in originality for presentations. sounds, words, and their interactions. Results suggest even those who are high in verbal...