This report provides a brief summary of the research projects that have been conducted to support the development of the new SAT.

This is a report of the development of a system of scoring the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) for Men. The scales which were developed supplement the occupational scales. Their main concern is identifying important clusters of interest which can be generalized beyond a single occupation. Development of the scales was based on an item…

Applying basic decision theory on a neuropsychiatric hospital population indicates that researchers using a prediction schedule will be unlikely to predict a future suicide beyond a 20 percent level of efficiency. Eliminating false negatives was more practical than eliminating false positives in increasing the efficiency of a predictive schedule.…

The Model for Predicting Early Alienation was found to have validity: that is, it was found to be a useful, if not the ultimately perfect, tool for predicting alienation in ninth-grade students. (Author)

Replication was undertaken of a recent study conducted by Buell and Anthony which had found that recidivism and posthospital employment could be predicted by a single demographic variable, number of previous hospitalizations and employment history, respectively. Results of the replication were consistent for posthospital employment but not for…

The hypothesis was tested that subjects fake personality tests by enacting a specific social role, rather than by responding in terms of personality constructs, and that such role faking cannot be detected by validity scales. Results support the hypothesis. (Author)

A behaviorally specific motivational effort rating scale was developed and tested. The organizational specific scale results were examined and compared to those generated from the Landy and Guion scale. It was found that the organizationally specific and engineer relevant scale is a better predictor of two types of expectancies. (Author)

The stability of personality types as assessed by a person's major field at graduation and by high-point VPI code as an employed adult is demonstrated for intervals of 10 to 35 years for 884 men and women. The concurrent validity of the VPI for employed adults is also substantial. (Author)

THIS STUDY IS AN ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE USE OF BELOW-CHANCE SCORES CAN BE EXPECTED TO GIVE DIFFERENT RESULTS IN PREDICTION OF GRADES THAN THE USE OF ABOVE-CHANCE SCORES, THAT IS, WHETHER IT IS SOUND TO USE BELOW-CHANCE SCORES IN AN ACADEMIC-PREDICTION REGRESSION EQUATION. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM THE THREE PUBLIC, PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO…

Predictive validity of the Differential Aptitude Test (DAT) was investigated by comparing the DAT scores obtained by students in Grade 9 against their achievement in Grade 12 departmental examinations. Results indicated that the DAT has good predictive power and can be used effectively on a selective basis for counseling and predictive purposes in…

This article compared the concurrent predictive accuracy of the (SVIB) for the same subjects on three sets of scales, the SVIB-Holland scales, the Basic Interest scales, and the Occupational scales. (Author)

The three major project objectives were as follows: (1) development of procedures for determining the optimum number of subgroups (and hence, moderated scoring keys) required for maximizing the predictive effectiveness of an inventory; (2) development of a single scale for reporting the scores obtained from a set of moderated keys; and, (3)…

The study evaluates a test of occupational information administered to a national sample of 5000 young men in 1966, as part of the National Longitudinal Surveys of employment behavior. The measurement instrument is judged to exhibit desirable characteristics in terms of internal consistency reliability, discriminatory power, and level of…

The predictive validity and factor structure of the ABC Inventory were analyzed by comparing scores obtained by preschoolers on this test with scores on the Metropolitan Reading Test. The correlational and factor analyses results reveal significant empirical and conceptual relationships between the two tests. (Author/PC)

A sample of male Investigative subjects (N=171) who completed the SDS as freshmen in 1970 was sent a questionnaire four years later. Results indicated that, for Investigative-type freshman males, the SDS has moderately high efficiency in predicting, four years later, their ultimate major and their immediate and future vocational plans. (Author)