This article outlines shortcomings of currently used university admissions tests and discusses ways in which they could potentially be improved, summarizing two projects designed to enhance college and university admissions. The projects were inspired by the augmented theory of successful intelligence, according to which successful intelligence…

Reports a study examining the generality of findings in a previous study which had indicated that the prediction of academic achievement from intelligence scores may be significantly improved when certain classroom behaviors are added to the prediction formula. (BR)

This study sought to describe, measure and analyze career patterns from early adolescence into early adulthood, and to measure vocational maturity in junior high school years and explore its predictive validity for subsequent career pattern events. Markov chain analysis was used for the first objective, and multiple discriminant analysis for the…

Analysis of predictor variables (intelligence, Sims SCI Occupational Rating Scale, and Family Wage Earners' Occupational Level) used singly or in any combination showed relationship to stated occupational preference beyond 0.001 level of significance. Counseling implications discussed. (Author/CJ)

A military research study focused on the cost of on-the-job training (OJT) for enlisted men until they reach the proficiency level of journeyman, with objectives to develop a costing methodology for OJT sufficiently general to be used in almost any occupational specialty in any of the services and to pilot test that methodology and evaluate its…

This study was conducted in an attempt to identify any predictor or combination of predictors of a beginning typewriting student's success. Variables of intelligence, rhythmic ability, musical background, and tapping ability were combined to study their relationship to typewriting speed and accuracy. A sample of 109 high school students was…