Admissions interview data and college academic credentials of five classes of University of Missouri-Columbia medical students were evaluated. Students judged by admissions interviewers to have high levels of maturity, nonacademic achievement, motivation, or rapport were two to three times as likely to receive outstanding internship…

The interaction of mental ability and of two different instructional methods was investigated for a second grade linear metric curriculum unit. Mental ability was positively correlated with achievement under the guided discovery method, but essentially uncorrelated for the self paced mastery learning method. (Author/JKS)

This longitudinal study compared two predictors of reading performance: behavior rating scales and psychometric tests. Two groups of 888 and 844 middle-class kindergarten children were studied through Grade 3. Classroom and school environment were also considered. (Author/GDC)

Recommends measures and criteria to be used by four-year colleges in admitting and advising different types of transfers from two-year colleges. Emphasizes the need for extensive information exchange between two- and four-year colleges so that assessment measures and criteria will be valid. (DC)

An analysis of the effects of three kinds of teacher comment (social-comparison, subject-matter,and intraindividually oriented) accompanying grades in mathematics is presented. Subjects were 385 students from grades 6 through 10. In analyses of variance, an interaction between type of comment and the student's prior performance level was revealed…

Addresses the implicit assumption that instructional media represent meaningful experimental variables independent of instructional content or strategy. Results of computer-based instruction (CBI) studies (both well-designed and flawed) and meta-analyses are reviewed to support the authors' position that this assumption is invalid, and new…

Reports on a study conducted to determine whether a common relationship exists for faculty size in U.S. engineering colleges. Suggests that an index of normative loading can possibly be established. (RT)

A study using discriminant analysis to correct bias in predicting faculty rank is reported. Findings concerning the relationship of prediction error and gender and suggestions for use of the results to study salary-bias problems are also discussed. (Author/MSE)

The relationships between job satisfaction and aspects of life at work and away from work were studied in 112 faculty members. Unlike the general population, academics appeared to experience a high degree of spillover between work and life away from work. (Author/MSE)

Focuses on relationship of interparental conflict, support, and quantity of interaction in both parenting and nonparenting realms in cognitive and social functioning of 44 adolescents whose parents had recently divorced. Ex-spousal interaction on nonparenting issues best predicts adolescent functioning. (Author/BB)

Reviews literature dealing with perceived reality in the television effects process from a construct validation perspective. Topics discussed include variables that influence the degree to which individuals perceive reality in televised messages, relationships with attribute variables, influence of reality perception on viewers' behavior and…

Discusses the selection process carried on in tertiary institutions. Argues that it is pointless to consider actual selection in isolation from the gathering of data and the way that data are treated. (PK)

Reviews study of 30 graduate students that investigated the possible contribution of pictures to the recall and retention of information presented in written prose. The two variables considered were the durability of picture effects, and the effect on recall of information that was not pictured. (LRW)

Twelve schools with higher reading levels than expected, on the basis of family incomes, were examined on 67 variables. Results indicated that schools achieving higher than expected were smaller, had lower pupil mobility, had teachers with more structured methods, and had principals and students with more positive reading attitudes. (JAZ)

The capacity of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory to discriminate among members of 12 pharmacy career groups (independent pharmacy owners and staff, chain managers and staff, hospital directors and staff, medical service representatives, marketing/administrative pharmacists, manufacturing and quality control, research and development,…