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7.1 Antoine, G., Bassler, M., Schultheis, J., & Krauthauser, H. (1989).

CORRELATION TEST (CT)

Developed for: IBM compatible; Language: C; Available on: 5.25" and 3.5" double-density, double-sided floppy disks

Documentation: Extensive

Distribution: ICARUS EDV-Consulting GmbH, St.-Markus-Strasse 43, D-6720 Speyer, Germany

Cost: DM 250; US $170.00

Relevant references: Krauthauser, H., Bassler, M., & Potratz, B. (1994)

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1992, 5, 427-428

Program is for: Computation of correlation matrix

Kinds of analysis performed: Computation of element or construct correlation matrix (Pearson or Spearman-Brown correlations); search for unbalanced triads with regard to the magnitude and sign of correlations. The number of unbalanced triads can be related to logical inconsistency or construct system fragmentation

7.2 Bell, R. C.

G-PACK

Developed for: IBM compatible; Apple Macintosh; Language: Interpreter BASIC; Available on: 5.25" floppy disk; 3.00" double-density

Documentation: Extensive

Distribution: PCP Centre, Department of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, N.S.W. 2500, Australia

Cost: Australian $30.00, US $25.00 (in 1992)

Relevant references: Bell, R. C. (1988); Bell, R. C. (1990)

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1992, 5, 119-120

Program is for: Elicitation and analysis of repertory grids

Kinds of analysis performed: Descriptive statistics, factor analysis, cluster analysis, Landfield statistics, implicative relationship measures

7.3 Chambers, W. V., & Grice, J.

CIRCUMGRIDS

Relevant references: Chambers, W. V., & Grice, J. (1986); Chambers, W. V., & Grice, J. (1987)

Surveyed in: Clinical Psychology Review, 1987, 7, I-IV

Program is for: Measures of logical consistency and integrative complexity

7.4 Landfield, A. W.

FIC/ORD

Developed for: IBM compatible; Language: C; Available on: 5.5" floppy disk, double-sided

Documentation: User's manual prepared by K. Landfield

Distribution: Dr. A. W. Landfield, 7550 South St., Lincoln, NE 68506, USA

Cost: USA: US $100.00, shipping charge included; Overseas: US $100.00, plus $10.00 shipping charge (in 1989)

Relevant references: Landfield, A. W., and element dimensions; (2) rating polarization (dispersion measure); (3) meaningfulness

7.5 Mancuso, J. C. & Jaccard, J.

PARENT ROLE REPERTORY ANALYSIS

Developed for: IBM compatible; Language: Quick Basic; Available on: 5.5" floppy disk single-density

Distribution: J. C. Mancuso, University of Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 122222, USA

Cost: US $25.00

Relevant references: Mancuso, J. C., & Ceeley, S. G. (1980); Mancuso, J. C., & Handin, K. H. (1980); Mancuso, J. C., & Shaw, M. L. (Eds.) (1988)

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1991, 4, 115-117

Program is for: Elicitation and/or analysis of repertory grids relative to parent roles

Kinds of analysis performed: Principal components, varimax rotations, cluster analysis, d measures, correlation coefficients, cluster permutations, regression analysis, various graphing, and many more

7.6 Mancuso, J. C. & Jaccard, J.

SELF ROLE REPERTORY ANALYSIS

Developed for: IBM compatible; Language: QuickBasic; Available on: 5.25" floppy disk, double-sided

Documentation: User's manual

Distribution: J. C. Mancuso, University of Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 122222, USA

Cost: Approximately US $25.00 (in 1989)

Relevant references: Mancuso, J. C., & Ceeley, S. G. (1980); Mancuso, J. C., & Jaccard, J. (1988); Mancuso, J. C., & Shaw, M. L. (Eds.) (1988)

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1989, 2, 357-359

Program is for: Elicitation and analysis of repertory grids

Kinds of analysis performed: Principal components, varimax rotations, cluster analysis, d measures, correlation coefficients, cluster permutations, regression analysis, various graphing, and many more

7.7 Metzler, A. E.

RATIMER 1.0

Developed for: IBM compatible; Language: C; Available on: 5.25" 360K or 3.5" 1.44M diskettes

Documentation: Extensive

Distribution: College of Education, Lehigh University, 111 Research Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA

Cost: US $50.00 (US $60.00 for orders from outside the USA)

Surveyed in: Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 1995, 8, 171-172

Program is for: This program is intended to support studies involving construct-based recall. It is designed to interact directly with an experimental subject, presenting constructs to be rated and recording rating and timing information and recall counting

7.8 Metzler, A. E., & Magargal, L.

PCGRID 1.0

Developed for: IBM compatible; Language: C; Available on: 5.25" 360K or 3.5" 1.44M diskettes

Documentation: Extensive

Distribution: Department of Counseling Psychology, School Psychology, and Special Education, Lehigh University, Mountaintop Campus, 111 Research Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA

Cost: US $25.00 (US $35.00 for foreign orders)

Surveyed in: Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 1994, 7, 85-86

Program is for: Analysis of rating grids

Kinds of analysis performed: Descriptive statistics (distribution of ratings), Intensity and Conflict, Identification, Landfield measures (FIC, Ordination, Extremity, and Chi-Square)

7.9 Neimeyer, R. A. & Murphy, M.

AUTO-REP

Developed for: IBM compatible; Language: Fortran; Available on: 5.25" floppy disk double-sided

Documentation: Extensive

Distribution: R. A. Neimeyer, Department of Psychology, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN 38152, USA

Cost: US $50.00

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1990, 3, 259-260

Program is for: Elicitation and/or analysis of repertory grids

Kinds of analysis performed: Content analysis of construct poles or free descriptions according to Landfield's coding system

7.10 Shaw, M. L. G.

PLANET (including PEGASUS, ARGUS, FOCUS, ENTAIL, PRINGRID, MINUS, CORE, From US $450.00 to $1350.00 depending on which parts are required (in 1990)

Relevant references: Shaw, M. L. G. (1980); Shaw, M. L. G. (1981); Mancuso, J. C., & Shaw, M. L. G. (1988)

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1990, 3, 353-354

Program is for: Elicitation and analysis of repertory grids

Kinds of analysis performed: Principal components, cluster analysis, comparison of two grids, analysis of group grids (up to 20), logical analysis

7.11 Shaw, M. L. G.

REPGRID

Developed for: Apple Macintosh Plus, SE, or II; Available on: Floppy disk

Documentation: Extensive

Distribution: Centre for Person Computer Studies, 3019 Underhill Dr., N.W., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4E4

Cost: US $500.00 (in 1989)

Relevant references: Shaw, M. L. G. (1980); Shaw, M. L. G. (1989)

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1989, 2, 471-472

Program is for: Elicitation and analysis of repertory grids

Kinds of analysis performed: Principal components, cluster analysis, comparison of two grids, logical analysis

7.12 Slade, P. D.

CONFLICT

Relevant references: Slade, P. D., & Kjeldsen, A. (1976); Slade, P. D., & Sheehan, M. J. (1977)

7.13 Slater, P.

INGRID 77

Distribution: MRC Service for Analysing Repertory Grids, Biometric Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, London, England

Relevant references: Slater, P. (Ed.) (1976); Slater, P. (Ed.) (1977)

7.14 Thomas, L. F. & Harri-Augstein, S.

CHANGE GRID, THE

Developed for: Apple series (DOS 3.3); upgraded and expanded for IBM compatibles (MS-DOS 2.1 upwards); Language: Applesoft BASIC (compiled); Quick Basic 4.5 (compiled); Available on: 5" single-sided double-density floppy disks; 5.25" double-sided, double-density, soft-sectored floppy disks

Documentation: Apple: manual; IBM: self-documenting with help system

Distribution: Centre for the Study of Human Learning (CSHL), Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, England

Cost: Prices on application

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1990, 3, 476-478

Program is for: Comparing successive grids elicited from one person over a period of time

Kinds of analysis performed:(a) FOCUSes the grids highlighting the changes; (b) produces two 'shared grids' and computes a 'difference grid' from a comparison

7.15 Thomas, L. F. & Harri-Augstein, S.

DEMON/PEGASUS/ICARUS

Developed for: Apple series (DOS 3.3); upgraded and expanded for IBM compatibles (MS-DOS 2.1 upwards); Language: Applesoft BASIC (compiled); Quick Basic 4.5 (compiled); Available on: 5" single-sided double-density floppy disks; 5.25" double-sided, double-density, soft-sectored floppy disks

Documentation: Apple: manual; IBM: self-documenting with help system

Distribution: Centre for the Study of Human Learning (CSHL), Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, England

Cost: Prices on application

Relevant references: Thomas, L. F., & Harri-Augstein, E. S. (1985)

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1993, 6, 113-115

Program is for: Recruiting the interactive facilities of a personal computer to enable any user to generate a grid-based conversation with themselves

Kinds of analysis performed: The program starts by negotiating a Personal Learning contract and defining the nature of the conversation that will ensue. During the opening session, the user contributes elements that are added to any that have been preset by the manager

7.16 Thomas, L. F. & Harri-Augstein, S.

FEEDBACK-FOR-LEARNING

Developed for: Apple series (DOS 3.3); upgraded and expanded for IBM compatibles (MS-DOS 2.1 upwards); Language: Applesoft BASIC (compiled); Quick Basic 4.5 (compiled); Available on: 5" single-sided double-density floppy disks; 5.25" double-sided, double-density, soft-sectored floppy disks

Documentation: Apple: manual; IBM: self-documenting with help system

Distribution: Centre for the Study of Human Learning (CSHL), Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, England

Cost: Prices on application

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1991, 4, 230-233

Program is for: Use by a team or members of an organization. It enables the people most concerned with a set of jobs to provide feedback about their performance, in their own terms, to the people doing the jobs

Kinds of analysis performed: "Structures of Meaning" and Pegasus/Icarus-type elicitation of grids is used to obtain a comprehensive pool of the constructs used to judge performance.

7.17 Thomas, L. F. & Harri-Augstein, S.

FILING and FOCUS

Developed for: Apple series (DOS 3.3); upgraded and expanded for IBM compatibles (MS-DOS 2.1 upwards); Language: Applesoft BASIC (compiled); Quick Basic 4.5 (compiled); Available on: 5" single-sided double-density floppy disks; 5.25" double-sided, double-density, soft-sectored floppy disks

Documentation: Apple: manual; IBM: self-documenting with help system

Distribution: Centre for the Study of Human Learning (CSHL), Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, England

Cost: Prices on application

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1990, 3, 473-475

Program is for: Typing in and editing of individual grids, analysis of grids, and display and printing out of various stages of this analysis and the FOCUSed grid in a variety of forms

Kinds of analysis performed: 'City-block' percentage matching scores, Spearman rho correlation coefficients, 'nearest neighbour' linear cluster analysis, 'hierarchical tree' analysis, ordered 'pairs' analysis

7.18 Thomas, L. F. & Harri-Augstein, S.

LEARNING CONVERSATIONS (USING PERSONAL LEARNING CONTRACTS)

Developed for: Apple series (DOS 3.3); upgraded and expanded for IBM compatibles (MS-DOS 2.1 upwards); Language: Applesoft BASIC (compiled); Quick Basic 4.5 (compiled); Available on: 5" single-sided double-density floppy disks; 5.25" double-sided, double-density, soft-sectored floppy disks

Documentation: Apple: manual; IBM: self-documenting with help system

Distribution: Centre for the Study of Human Learning (CSHL), Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, England

Cost: Prices on application

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1991, 4, 227-229

Program is for: Conducting a "Learning Conversation" with the user through a series of personal learning contracts (PLC)

Kinds of analysis performed: Definition of a PLC, generation of reflective talkback conversation, creation of a bank of personal learning biographies to enable learners to build a better understanding of their own processes

7.19 Thomas, L. F. & Harri-Augstein, S.

PERSONAL LEARNING TASK ANALYSIS

Developed for: Apple series (DOS 3.3); upgraded and expanded for IBM compatibles (MS-DOS 2.1 upwards); Language: Applesoft BASIC (compiled); Quick Basic 4.5 (compiled); Available on: 5" single-sided double-density floppy disks; 5.25" double-sided, double-density, soft-sectored floppy disks

Documentation: Apple: manual; IBM: self-documenting with help system

Distribution: Centre for the Study of Human Learning (CSHL), Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, England

Cost: Prices on application

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1991, 4, 119-120

Program is for: Enabling the users to explore the coherence of their life activities; educational activities; learning of social, manual, or intellectual skills; development at a sport, etc.

Kinds of analysis performed: Elicitation of personal learning contracts (PLC), exploration of their coherence, isolation of components, development, mapping and revision of hierarchies to improve the users' understanding of their own learning processes

7.20 Thomas, L. F. & Harri-Augstein, S.

READING TO LEARN

Developed for: Apple series (DOS 3.3); upgraded and expanded for IBM compatibles (MS-DOS 2.1 upwards); Language: Applesoft BASIC (compiled); Quick Basic 4.5 (compiled); Available on: 5" single-sided double-density floppy disks; 5.25" double-sided, double-density, soft-sectored floppy disks

Documentation: Apple: manual; IBM: self-documenting with help system

Distribution: Centre for the Study of Human Learning (CSHL), Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, England

Cost: Prices on application

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1991, 4, 325-327

Program is for: Enabling users to improve and develop their use of reading as a learning skill

Kinds of analysis performed: The program can be set to display the text word by word, one line at a time, or through a window revealing a preset number of lines

7.21 Thomas, L. F. & Harri-Augstein, S.

SOCIO GRIDS

Developed for: Apple series (DOS 3.3); upgraded and expanded for IBM compatibles (MS-DOS 2.1 upwards); Language: Applesoft BASIC (compiled); Quick Basic 4.5 (compiled); Available on: 5" single-sided double-density floppy disks; 5.25" double-sided, double-density, soft-sectored floppy disks

Documentation: Apple: manual; IBM: self-documenting with help system

Distribution: Centre for the Study of Human Learning (CSHL), Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, England

Cost: Prices on application

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1992, 5, 217-220

Program is for: Comparing the grids obtained from a group of people who have negotiated an agreed set of shared elements. The results of this analysis show "who construes like who". It produces a sociometric description of group

Kinds of analysis performed: In the primary analysis, each grid is compared with each other grid in the set. This produces a matching score matrix of each construct in one grid with every construct in the other grid. The further analysis uses this to calculate the "average maximum matching score" of all constructs in all grids and to produce an ordered list of constructs from most shared to least shared

7.22 Thomas, L. F. & Harri-Augstein, S.

STRUCTURES OF MEANING

Developed for: Apple series (DOS 3.3); upgraded and expanded for IBM compatibles (MS-DOS 2.1 upwards); Language: Applesoft BASIC (compiled); Quick Basic 4.5 (compiled); Available on: 5" single-sided double-density floppy disks; 5.25" double-sided, double-density, soft-sectored floppy disks

Documentation: Apple: manual; IBM: self-documenting with help system

Distribution: Centre for the Study of Human Learning (CSHL), Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, England

Cost: Prices on application

Surveyed in: International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1991, 4, 439-441

Program is for: Either (1) Generating a free-form reflective conversation with users in their own terms but without making their system of constructs explicit, or (2) Generating a pregrid conversation in which items of experience are compared and contrasted with one another or/and clustered visually to generate a more limited but still representative set of elements to be used in eliciting a repertory grid

Kinds of analysis performed: When sufficient items of experience have been elicited, the program encourages the user to compare and contrast them one with another

7.23 Tschudi, F. (1990).

FLEXIGRID 5.1

Distribution: Tschudi System Sales, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

 

 

 

 

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