Vocational guidance counselors should examine carefully the values and assumptions that underlie their recommendations. The unmeasurable and latent aspects of human personality (in both advisors and advisees) are too often overlooked in the career counseling process. (SK)

Women had higher high school grades and academic ability test scores in Grade 9. By 11 years after high school, men had more education and were earning more money. Sex differences in realization of achievement potential were found across all socioeconomic levels, and found to be partially due to role conflict. (Author/JAC)

Self-report measures are positively related to the masculine Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) and are similar for males and females. The BSRI scores are positively related to other group members' evaluations of female leadership performance, but not males. Findings point to the complexities associated with sex-role research. (Author)

Significant differences were found between the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised mean standard scores and Verbal, Performance, and Full Scale IQs. The PPVT-R did not correlate significantly with the WISC-R scales or subtests, suggesting the tests are measuring different abilities. (Author)

The utility of personality measures as predictors of voluntary withdrawal from college was investigated. Four criterion groups were formed: high-achieving persisters and withdrawals, and low-achieving persisters and withdrawals. Two significant discriminant functions were found and interpreted as academic aptitude and social immaturity. (Author/GK)

Among obese females following a behavioral weight loss program, a measure of perceived personal control significantly predicted outcome. Internals achieved greater mean weight loss. The internal control orientation was associated with higher extraversion and self-acceptance, but neither of these other variables correlated with weight loss. (Author)

Enactment of PL 94-142 requires that outcomes of special education programs and related service programs be determined on a regular basis. The problem of aggregation of criterion-referenced test data for special service program outcome evaluation and the strengths and weaknesses of several alternative solutions are examined. (Author)

Multiple regression models are formulated which analyze the usefulness of AHPAT (Allied Health Professions Admission Test) as a predictor of success in allied health programs. Models are estimated by using data from the four baccalaureate programs in the School of Allied Health Professions at SUNY--Stony Brook. (CT/Author)

Establishes the validity of the Picture Potency Formula as a tool to predict the extent to which children will respond to pictures. (FL)

The article reports on the preliminary findings of a study of 392 Australian kindergarten children to determine which tests are the most predictive of later reading ability and disability. (Author/DLS)

Typical assessment information as well as measures of achievement efficiency were used to predict program placement for 75 educable mentally retarded children (ages 5-14 years) in an attempt to identify a composite of scores which would differentiate between those placed in regular and special classrooms. (Author/DLS)

The potential application of decision process models to the development of a class of empirically derived and testable models of the behavior of individuals in peer rating situations is explored. (Author)

Results of this study of eight liberal arts colleges, traditionally women's colleges, suggest that multiple-discriminant analysis provides a rigorous and practical basis for adding an important and largely unexplored between-group dimension to studies in the prediction of within-group performance. (Editor/LBH)

While Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and American College Testing Program (ACT) scores are viewed as reliable, and colleges and universities continue to use them, they are often misunderstood and misused. They are reliable for predicting freshman grades only when comparisons are made within one racial group. They also do not account for student…

Replies to Mellow's (1996) criticism of the authors' second language acquisition model. The article argues that this model is based on the psychological concept of exchange of linguistic information and that Mellow's evaluation of various types of transformational analysis is irrelevant. The article also addresses several points of detail in…