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Pugh, Richard C.; And Others – 1969
The purpose of this study was to determine the relative effectiveness of the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) Mathematics Achievement Test, Level I, as an instrument for placing students in beginning college mathematics courses. For this purppse it was compared with several other variables as predictors of success in the specific courses;…
Descriptors: Achievement, College Mathematics, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
DeNisi, Angelo S.; And Others – 1976
The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ), a structured job analysis questionnaire that provides for the analysis for individual jobs in terms of 187 job elements, has been found in previous studies to be useful as the basis for predicting the mean test scores of incumbents on a sample of jobs in terms of the nine tests of the General Aptitude…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Job Analysis, Occupational Tests, Personnel Selection
Sabers, Darrell Lee – 1967
There were three objectives of a revision and validation of the Iowa Algebra Aptitude Test (IAAT): (1) to reduce the importance of speed; (2) to improve the quality of the existing items; and (3) to replace a subtest with one of potentially greater predictive validity. The last of these goals involved the development of a new subtest composed of a…
Descriptors: Algebra, Aptitude Tests, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade Prediction
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Horowitz, Frances Degen; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1978
Reviews issues of reliability (especially test-retest reliability) in newborn assessment, discusses predictive models based on newborn assessment, and presents information on modifications of the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale which may help in pursuing fruitful questions involving prediction of development. (Author/BH)
Descriptors: Child Development, Infant Behavior, Infants, Models