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ANNUAL REPORT OF PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT
Reporting Period: from September, 1965 to September, 1966
Ie Faculty
A.
Faculty Honors
Dr? William F. Grossnickle has been elected to full membership in
Sigma Xi.
Dr. Clinton R. Prewett has been re-elected to the Executive Committee
of the North Carolina Psychological Association.
Dr. Monnie Hedges and Dr. Charles C. Mitchell are psychological
consultants to various school systemse
Dre Charles C. Mitchell and Dr. William F. Grossnickle have served
as psychological consultants to Weyerhauser Corporation.
Dr. Clinton R, Prewett has been named to the Southern Regional Education
Board committee to study training in clinical psychology.
Dre William F,. Grossnickle and Dr. Charles C,. Mitchell served as
psychological consultants to the Huntington National Bank, Columbus,
Ohio.
Mr. Graham Burkheimer was invited to present a paper, "Maximum Reliability
of Multiple Choice Tests in Terms of Number of Items, Number of Alterna-
tives, and Group Homogeneity," at the North Carolina Psychological
Association annual meeting.
Dr. Clinton R, Prewett was a participant in the Executive Development
Seminar on the campus of East Carolina College during the past year.
Dr. Clinton R, Prewett was re-elected to the editorial board of The
High School Journal.
Dr. Donald W. Zimmerman addressed the graduate faculty and students
of the Psychology Department of the University of South Carolina at
a colloquium,
Faculty Publications
Zimmerman, D. W., Williams, R. H. & Rehm, H. H. Test reliability when
error scores consist of independent and non-independent components,
Journal of Experimental Education (in press).
Williams, R. H. & Zimmerman, D. W. Some conjectures concerning the
index of reliability and related quantities when true scores and
error scores on mental tests are not independent. Journal of
Experimental Education (in press),
Zimmerman, D. W. & Williams, R. H. Independence and Non-Independence
of true scores and error scores in mental tests: assumptions in
the definition of parallel forms. Journal of Experimental
Education (in press).
Zimmerman, D. W. & Williams, R. H. Generalization of the Spearman-
Brown formula for test reliability: the case of non-independence
of true scores and error scores. British Journal of Mathematical
and Statistical Psychology (in press).
Zimmerman, D, W. & Williams, R. H. Interpretation of the standard error
of measurement when true scores and error scores on mental tests
are not independent. Psychological Reports (in press).
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Zimmerman, D. W., Williams, R. H., Rehm, H. H. & Elmore, W. Empirical
estimations of intercorrelations among the components of scores on
multiple-choice tests. Psychological Reports (in press).
Williams, R. H., Zimmerman, D. W. & Burkheimer, G. J. The effect of
non-independent error of measurement on correlations among tests:
a correction for Spearman's correction for attenuation. Journal
of Experimental Education (in press).
Burkheimer, G. J., Zimmerman, D. W. & Williams, R. H. The maximum
reliability of a multiple-choice test as a function of number of
items, number of choices, and group heterogeneity. Journal of
Experimental Education (in press).
Zimmerman, D. W., Williams, R. H. & Burkheimer, G. J. Dependence of
reliability of multiple-choice tests upon number of choices per
item: prediction from the Spearman-Brown formula. Psychological
Reports (in press).
Zimmerman, D. W., Williams, R. H. Chance success due to guessing and
non-independence of true scores and error scores in multiple-
choice tests: computer trials with prepared distributions.
Psychological Reports, September, 1965, 159-165.
Zimmerman, D. W. Review of the films "One Pigeon's Career" and "Complex
Behavior Chaining.'"' Contemporary Psychology (in press).
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Faculty on Leave
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John R. Clarke, postdoctoral study at the University of Colorado
Medical Schoole
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Further Study
None
Research
None
Other purposes
None
Faculty members not on tenure:
Miss Nannette McLain
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Mr.
Donald W. Zimmerman
Thomas E,. Long
W. F. Grossnickle
Charles C, Mitchell
Franklin J, Sadlack
Monnie Hedges
Harry A. Williams
James Higgins
Graham Burkheimer
Faculty members awarded degrees since last report:
Robert B. Graham==Ph.D,
Faculty members within two years of retirement:
None
Faculty members with released time:
None
Faculty members whose highest degree is outside their teaching field:
None
Faculty members on one-year appointment:
Mr.
Mr.
Franklin J. Sadlack
Graham Burkheimer
Ks Additional comments:
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The following faculty members are extremely attentive to counseling
needs of students and working with Departmental affairs:
Mrs. Hazel Stapleton
Dre We. F. Grossnickle
Mr. C. Re Dixon
Outstanding classroom teaching:
Miss Nannette McLain
Dr. Robert B, Graham
Mr. Franklin J. Sadlack
Dr. Julia Marshall
Outstanding in working with over-all College problems:
Dr, Charles C. Mitchell
Outstanding in graduate counseling and instruction:
Dr. Thomas Es. Long
Outstanding in research capability:
Dr. Donald W. Zimmerman
Mr. Graham J. Burkheimer
Careful attention to building up the library resources:
Dre Ce Te Martoccia
IL. Students
A. Departmental Majors:
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Fall, 1965-300
Fall, 1966-366
Number of majors in Departmental Honors Program-?None
Total number of majors on probation during period covered-85
Total number of majors on probation during Spring Quarter--71
Student honors-?None
IIL. Curriculum
A. New degree programs added or deleted--None
Be New major or minor requirements:
A new check sheet has been developed
consistent with the overeall changes in the general education program of
the College. Certain minor revisions were made concerning the minor in
psychology. All of this information is available from the check sheet.
C. Courses added or deleted since the last report: Psychology 343G~~=
Psychology of Organization Behavior was added.
D. Courses not taught for the past two years that are still listed in
catalog~--None
E. Special leetures or special academic programs sponsored by the Department:
Dre William McGehee, Director of Personnel Research, Fieldcrest Mills
IV. Instruction
Ae Comment on Departmental practice in regard to;
1. Freshman and sophomore honors program: The Department is working on a
plan to present for an honors program in psychology.
2. Uniform grading practices in multiple section courses: In Psychology
50 we have had a number of group discussion meetings with all the
professors involved in order that some uniformity might be achieved
in grading.
B. Average Departmental teaching load--13 hours. Attention should be
drawn to the fact that our student-teacher ratio is still very high.
We realize that the College has tried to help us by granting additional
faculty members. We were unable to employ persons for all the vacancies.
We hope that our next report will show a decrease in student-teacher
ratioe
C. Comment on what is being done to attain or to maintain a strong consistent
faculty demand for higher quality student performance.
We are very well satisfied with the rigor of our graduate program. Many
students are denied admission to the graduate program here. In fact, we
maintain a cut-off point of 1000 on the Graduate Record Examination or a
raw score of 57 on the Miller Analogies Test, Also, a thorough scrutiny
of the student's undergraduate transcript is made by the Admissions
Committee in the Psychology Department. Finally, the course work itself
is quite demanding and weak students have practically no chance of getting
throughe
The undergraduate program is still a matter of concern. We have a
bimodal distribution of about 200 very good students and about 150
are weak students. I do not know how long this will obtain at this
College. It is folly for a very weak student to try to go through
the program since he must complete the demanding aspects of the general
education program and the work in the psychology major itself,
It is important to point out that the Department received an excellent
rating from the visiting team in regard to the medical school at East
Carolina Colleges We also would like to mention that our students who
have finished the program here are doing very well in fine graduate
schools throughout the countrye
V. Departmental Development
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List areas of specialty within the field that are thought to be necessary
or desirable to the present program or to the early expansion of the pro-
gram in which the Department (1) has no qualified faculty member or
(2) where the qualified faculty member within that field is within two
years of retirement:
None
List national honor society or societies in which Department is affiliated
noting new affiliations since last report.
We have been approved for Psi Chi, a national honor society in psychology,
and the formal installation program will take place in December of this
Yeare
If Department is not affiliated with a national honor society list any
steps being taken to gain affiliation.
List any honors or awards given to the Department since the last report:
1. Excellent report by the visitation team of the medical school
evaluation team.
2. Outstanding performance of students doing graduate work elsewhere.
3. Recognition of scholarship and research by the articles of Dr.
Zimmerman, Dre Williams, and Mr. Burkheimer.
4, The invitation of the Southern Regional Education Board to describe
our Master's program in clinical psychology. This program is being
used somewhat as a model in various parts of the country.
Grants and Subsidies
1. List all grants and subsidies to the Department or to faculty members
within the Department including the following information for each
such grant or subsidy:
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Source of funds:
North Carolina Department of Mental HealthsseceeeeeSl0,800
North Carolina Medical Care Commissionssccsccceeeeed 6,000
List proposals made during the reporting period and note the
current disposition:
Undergraduate Instructional Scientific Equipment (National
Science Foundation) Approved
An Investigation of Non-Independence of Components of
Scores on Multiple-Choice Tests, (U. S. Office of Education)
Approved
