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Zhang, Charlene; Kuncel, Nathan R. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
Measures of biographical data, or biodata, provide indicators of one's life history and past experiences. Biodata information is often available in various forms during processes of academic admissions to higher education. Such information can be used, in combination with other factors, to predict students' future academic and extra-curricular…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Biographical Inventories, Scores, Predictor Variables

Pannone, Ronald D. – Personnel Psychology, 1984
Examined the validity of a rationally developed biographical questionnaire for predicting content valid test performance for electrician applicants (N=221). Results showed that the utility of the questionnaire in screening applicant populations was both statistically and practically significant. (LLL)
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Job Applicants, Performance, Personnel Selection

Brush, Donald H.; Schoenfeldt, Lyle F. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1979
The relationships among measures of vocational interest, life history data, educational performance, and number of courses taken (by area) were explored in a college freshman sample of 1,892 students. Canonical correlation analysis was used to uncover and describe the major relationships among the variable sets. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biographical Inventories, Correlation, Credit Courses
Hilton, Thomas L.; And Others – 1970
A five-year study was undertaken to develop criterion rating scales for predicting successful performance in graduate business study, as well as in later career progress. The scales embodied dimensions, other than grades, which were judged by a nationwide panel of faculty to be relevant to performance. The scales were defined and anchored by…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Business Administration, Graduate Students, Higher Education

Hynes, Kevin; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1978
Thirteen predictors of self-reported high school leadership were investigated using data from the Project TALENT sample of high school seniors. The high school leader was characterized as mature, interested in business management, self-confident, socially sensitive, vigorous, and having high socioeconomic status. Cognitive variables were not…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Cognitive Ability, Extracurricular Activities, High School Students
Shaffer, Garnett Stokes – 1981
In the past only academic variables have performed well in the prediction of attrition. Ideally, persons in higher education would like to predict attrition prior to its occurrence, but many academic variables are not available until after the fact. Thus, the isolation of those motivational and personality variables which identify individuals as…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Biographical Inventories, College Freshmen, Dropout Research
Rock, Donald A. – 1974
First-year graduate students were asked to respond to a biographical questionnaire which emphasized motivational variables in addition to the usual demographic variables. It was hypothesized that the students could select from a group of ability measures the one best indicator of how well they would do in graduate school. To test this hypothesis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Biographical Inventories
Mazzuca, Steven A.; Feldhusen, John F. – 1979
A theory, which proposed a hierarchy of determinants of student ratings of instruction, was tested. Situational variables such as class size, elective enrollment, and grade expectancy were hypothesized to be only indicators of more potent determiners. These motivational constructs were diversity of enrollment motives and subject matter interests,…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Class Size, Course Evaluation, Critical Path Method
Baird, Leonard L. – 1976
This review examines the accuracy and the concurrent and predictive validity of brief self-report information, and evaluates the promise and problems involved in its practical use. In section one, the power of self-report information for predicting and understanding grades is reviewed. In the second section, research on the influence of background…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Activism, Adults, Background