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Ayers, Jerry B. – 1973
The purpose of this study involving predicting academic success in a teacher education program was to determine the relationship among the following factors; scores on the Mooney Problem Checklist (MPC), Kuder Preference Record Vocational (KPSV), Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes (SSHA), American College Test (ACT), and National Teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity, Predictor Variables
Cervero, Ronald – 1977
A study was conducted to develop an instrument which would require a relatively short time to complete and would predict an adult's probable performance on a five-part General Educational Development (GED) test. It was believed that the cloze procedure (a measure of reading comprehension in which every fifth word is deleted from a reading passage…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Educational Research, Equivalency Tests, Predictive Measurement
Barker, Lawrence W.; Mink, Oscar G. – 1968
The Mink Scale is designed to differentiate between potential dropout and non-dropout students at the junior high school level. Items of the scale represent social, psychological, and educational factors established in previous dropout studies. A pilot study in five Appalachian counties compared scale responses for 189 (dropouts) former students…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Discipline, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research