This paper presents a model for the identification and validation of competencies, designed as an all-inclusive framework, which may be adapted for specific situations. The criteria for including data in the validation process are as follows: (a) if the data are to be employed in making decisions about individuals or groups, all available evidence…

The development of a multivariate prediction system aimed at having useful predictors available early in the training of potential Army aviators is discussed. Using this system, supervisors will be able to relate a predictor score to a probability table, thus enabling administrators to make early decisions involving further training of Army…

This investigation challenged the causal relationship implicit in the search for behavioral predictors in infancy of later intellectual ability and demonstrated the primacy of infant mental scale scores in the causation of later, more concrete physical behaviors. (Author/JMB)

Attempted to identify predictors of positive treatment outcome following behavioral marital therapy. The only variable that significantly predicted outcome at both posttest and follow-up was a measure reflecting traditional affiliation/independence patterns: couples with a highly affiliative wife and a highly independent husband were less likely…

Examined the Lennox-Wolfe Self-Monitoring Scale for its capacity to predict shrewd and pragmatic styles of behavior in 95 subjects tested prior to entering college. Results showed the scale correlates with a measure of shyness (negatively) and sociability (positively) in theoretically consistent directions. Results partially validate the…

Assessed the validity of the Kindergarten Teacher Rating Scale (KTRS) in predicting reading achievement for male (N=254) and female (N=227) students. Results indicated that the KTRS was a significant predictor of reading achievement for both boys and girls. Differential predictive validity for boys and girls was not found. (LLL)

Results indicated that predictive accuracy is greater when feedback is applied to the basis for the prediction than when applied to gut" impressions. Judges forming hypotheses were also able to learn from experience. (Author)

Results of three experiments correlating CTAA with academic aptitude are discussed. (DB)

Lord's relatively unknown formula, based on the expected cross-sample, is shown to be superior to either of Wherry's formulas, which are based on the expected universe. (GS)

Provides a set of tables, similar to the Taylor-Russell tables, to evaluate the usefulness of selection tests in which assumptions require point-biserial validity coefficients. (MB)