The KDP scale was found to be ineffective as a predictor of Ss' contacts with law enforcement agencies but of some use in predicting school social adjustment and reading achievement. (Editor)

Results in this study suggest that it is possible to use performance on a moderator or predictability scale to select a subgroup for whom correspondence between two predictors and the criterion is much greater than that of a subgroup whose scores on the moderator indicate a lesser degree of correspondence. (Author/ES)

The SVIB was administered to culturally handicapped women. The results indicted that major interest profiles were evident and predicted vocational placement significantly; however, the SVIB did not discriminate which indicated that the instrument was not a motivation index. (Author)

Industrially advanced societies increasingly encourage the skills of bureaucrats and technicians rather than the creative ones--because their universities admit students on the basis of intelligence-test scores and secondary school grades, two measures which have practically no correlation with real-life creativity." (Author/AL)

Describes an experimental study whose aim was to establish criteria and a method for predicting drop-outs and completions in adult education courses. (AN)

"The results of the study did not favor the indiscriminate use of the Achievement via Conformity scale, the Achievement via Independence scale, and the Intellectual Efficiency scale for predicting GPA of college freshmen. (Author)

This study was supported in part by Contract No. N00014-67-A-011-007 with the Office of Naval Research.

Reprint of an extended report available from: J. Arbuthnot, N.Y. State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 14850.

Argues that using data collected at an individual level to make inferences concerning the effects of group level processes on individual behavior and attitudes often results in unrecognized inaccuracies. Demonstrates a multilevel approach for examining individual and group level influences of a social interaction variable on individual outcomes.…

This study examined the ability of the Listen and Look (LL) test of cross-modal perception and the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT) to predict reading achievement. Data from 79 first-grade pupils were analyzed. Both the LL and MRT demonstrated predictive validity. (Author/BW)