The findings from a study of 117 students support the view of educators who rely on the NLN achievement test scores to predict student performance in State board examinations. (Author/BP)

Nine predictor measures available from student files were used in classifying seventh- and eighth-grade students in mathematics classes into one of three or four levels of instruction in the following year. These measures were scores on tests of language intelligence, nonlanguage intelligence, general intelligence, reading vocabulary, reading…