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Download full textSurber, Colleen F. – 1980
The examination of credibility effects in predicting achievement, an important step in the study of source credibility effects on attributions, substantiates Birnbaum's findings that variation in the credibility of information can be represented by changes in the weight of the information. Undergraduate subjects (N=65) predicted the performance of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adults, Attribution Theory, Credibility
Peer reviewedDreher, George F. – Personnel Psychology, 1981
Examined the degree to which salary satisfaction can be predicted using company-maintained information. Studying managerial, professional, and technical employees, results suggest that without inclusion of a variety of employee perceptions, only a small proportion of pay satisfaction could be accounted for, with salary and sex as primary objective…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Employee Attitudes, Employees, Information Utilization
Peer reviewedLosee, Robert M., Jr. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1990
Describes various methods of measuring information contained in a database or in a document collection. Economic worth or utility of information to the user is discussed, the value of data in decision making is considered, and an example comparing information in two library collections is presented. (41 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Decision Making, Information Science
Cohn, Elchanan; Bird, Ronald – 1989
Data from the 1986 Current Population Survey (CPS) and a 1987 survey of public and private enterprises in Orangeburg, South Carolina, provide the basis for estimating a salary schedule for lead teachers in Orangeburg School District 5. The underlying rationale for the development of lead teacher positions is described in terms of salary gaps…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Information Utilization, Multiple Regression Analysis
Schellenberg, Stephen J.; Stephens, Charles E. – 1987
Directors of Research and Evaluation in school districts were surveyed about their methods in making school enrollment projections. The questionnaire covered school district size, minority enrollment, staff responsibility for performing projections, acceptable levels of accuracy, methodology used, special considerations, and use of the data. Fifty…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Projections, Information Utilization
Eberts, Randall W. – 1997
A pilot project was designed to test the efficacy of profiling welfare recipients and referring them to welfare-to-work services targeted toward their specific work histories and skills. The general framework of Michigan's Work First program was used to illustrate how profiling can be designed and administered. A profiling model was proposed that…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Comparative Analysis, Educational Needs, Employment Level
