In 1988, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) developed a private school data collection that improved on the sporadic collection of private school data dating back to 1890 by developing an alternative to commercially available private school sampling frames. Since 1989, the U.S. Bureau of the Census has conducted the biennial…

Many proposed moderators, "explanatory variables," in personnel psychology are probably illusory, having been created solely by belief in the law of small numbers. Race is one such illusory moderator. Also described is a model for validity generalization that questions the traditional doctrine of situational specificity of test…

The purpose of this study is to examine the SACU variables in relation to other commonly used variables in predicting university success in Alberta. (Author)

Expressions for the expected value, density, and distribution function (DF) of GS (gain from selection) are derived and studied in terms of sample size, number of predictors, and the prior distribution assigned to the population multiple correlation. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this investigation is to provide further data concerning the variables, age, intelligence and sex, that may affect moral judgment. (Author/RK)

This study, based on a survey of rural families in several provinces in Indonesia, is an attempt to search for variables, and combinations of variables, that predict the actual utilization of schooling by individual families. Suggests these useful predictors: family characteristics, family economic status, family orientation toward education.…

The present study is an attempt to explore the usefulness of demographic predictors of writing ability. Specifically, it is concerned with delineating the elements involved in writing and to ascertain the effects of achievement, language background, age, sex, social class, etc., on linguistic ability. (Author/RK)

First purpose of this study was to investigate empirically the accuracy of prediction using regression weights selected through the use of variance-reduction procedures. (Author)