With an annual yearly growth rate of 9.3 percent over the last two decades, Advanced Placement courses have become a juggernaut in American high school education. AP courses are routinely perceived as an indicator of educational rigor, and many schools push to enroll low-income or minority students in these courses in the hope of preparing them…

Although criteria for the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have become better defined, few research findings have appeared in the literature which characterize the degenerative course of the disease. Of particular interest to both clinicians and researchers would be a study focusing on changes in the patient's…

A sample of 640 children between 2.5 and 6 years old provided norms for scales of the Revised Gesell Preschool Examination. Scales focused on motor, adaptive, verbal, number, and personal and social development. A total of 272 children were reevaluated at 8.5 years on 22 variables derived from teacher ratings, parent questionnaires, and tests. The…

Traditional vocational appraisal, based primarily on the questionable predictive validity of tests, is reappraised; a new look for appraisal is proposed and integrated with a comprehensive approach to career counseling. (Author)

This followup to a previous study questioning the use of the Academic Achievement score on the SVIB to predict the academic achievement of women supports the earlier study's results. (HMV)

First grade children in Israel were tested on the Wechsler Preschool Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI); most were retested using measures of Reading and Arithmetic. Intelligence and achievement test scores were correlated to provide estimates of the predictive validity of the WPPSI. The Israeli WPPSI was highly valid for predicting school…

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)

Research in this effort attempted to review evidence of the construct validity of certain measures of intellectual potential for Canadian native pupils, and to examine the relative predictive validity, over a four-year period, of several measures of general intellectual ability for a sample of Metis pupils at Faust, Alberta, and 2 samples of…

Recent work with the F-K index of the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) has reaffirmed its usefulness for identifying dissimulation. Presents normative tables for the F-K index based on a contemporary normative sample of 335 normal women and 304 normal men. (Author/ABB)

Aims to assess relationships between phonological tasks, determine their degree of convergence, and investigate the predictive power of different tasks. Ten phonological awareness tasks were administered to 58 kindergarten children whose reading abilities were assessed one year later. Seven measures were moderately related to reading ability and…

Validity of the SVIB for predicting career choice at the end of college was studied with able black and white men who were winners of National Achievement and National Merit Scholarships in 1966. Membership in career groups was predicted at least as well for these able blacks as it was for the whites. (Author)

Examined the relationship between hopelessness and suicidal intent and whether the Beck Hopelessness Scale is confounded by social desirability, by interviewing attempted suicide patients (N=54). Results showed that hopelessness was the key variable in predicting suicidal behavior and ideation, and social desirability had no influence on…

Administered a modified version of the Self-Description Inventory, designed to assess need for achievement, to 127 South African managers. Five years later the scores were compared to salary growth, managerial level, and superiors' ratings. All of these validity correlations were significant, suggesting that the scale possesses sufficient…

Compared validities for females and males on the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII). Subjects took the SCII and a satisfaction measure three and one-half years after initial testing. Excellent predictive validity was evidenced for 42.5% of females and 59.3% of males. Concurrent validities were 58.0% and 64.0%. (Author/BEF)