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Neale, Anne Victoria; And Others – 1980
Severe problems in turnover and absenteeism among workers in geriatric and long-term care organizations have sparked great interest in the impact of job satisfaction on the quality of care provided to the elderly. The Job Description Index (JDI) is a job satisfaction index which measures satisfaction with several dimensions of the job: co-workers,…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Gerontology, Job Satisfaction, Nursing Homes
Hart, Donna R. – 1978
The document reports a study to determine if there is a higher incidence of behavior disorders or language differences in a group of 50 2-year-old Ss who have multiple minor physical anomalies as compared to a group with four or fewer anomalies, and to determine if there is a significant correlation between behavior disorders and language…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Congenital Impairments, Exceptional Child Research, High Risk Students
Download full textFerguson, Richard L.; Brennan, Robert L. – 1979
Issues associated with the ACT (American College Testing) Assessment Program illustrate the need to assess college entrance examinations in terms of the variety of common predictive uses such as estimation of first year grade point average (GPA), or chances of obtaining a C average after certain semesters or in specific courses. Test developers…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Grade Point Average, Grade Prediction, Higher Education
Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, Detroit. – 1978
The results of a small area forecast with regard to household composition, population and employment distribution, development and school costs, environmental impact, and transportation in Southeast Michigan are evaluated in this report. The role of public policy in influencing the community demography by the year 2000 is considered by…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Conservation (Environment), Cost Estimates
Chase, Clinton I.; Keene, John M., Jr. – 1980
Four groups of students were compared on cumulative grade point average, total credit hours attempted, and differences between predicted and actual grade point average (GPA). The four groups of students were formed by the semester in which they declared a major: students declaring in the third semester made up one group, those declaring in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, College Students, Credits
Byers, Joe L.; Evans, Thomas E. – 1980
A total of 29 teachers and 227 students served as subjects in a two-phase study to identify the factors that influence teacher judgments of students' reading interests across grades kindergarten through grade six. The first phase of the study identified 29 cues affecting both student reading preferences and teacher judgments of those preferences.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Prediction, Reading Achievement, Reading Improvement
WHITE, THURMAN J. – 1967
THE AUTHOR PREDICTS TEN FUTURE EVENTS THAT WILL MARK THE TRANSFORMATION FROM OPPORTUNITY TO REALITY OF EDUCATION FOR ALL AMERICANS. (1) THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL EMERGE WITH PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ADULT EDUCATION. (2) MORE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION WILL OFFER ADVANCED DEGREES IN ADULT EDUCATION. (3) BY 1980, 20 PERCENT OF THE ADULT…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Degrees (Academic)
HALLER, ARCHIBALD O.; MILLER, IRWIN W. – 1963
A SCALE TO MEASURE THE LEVEL OF OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATION (LOA) OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AS A PREDICTIVE TOOL IN FUTURE OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE IS PRESENTED AND EXTENSIVELY EVALUATED IN THIS MONOGRAPH. THE OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATION SCALE IS AN EASILY ADMINISTERED INSTRUMENT WHICH FOCUSES ON IDEALISTIC AND REALISTIC EXPRESSION LEVELS AS WELL AS ON…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Career Choice, Career Counseling
JENSEN, JOHN ANDERS – 1966
THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE CORRELATIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SELECTED APTITUDE AND INTEREST MEASURES AND CHEMISTRY ACHIEVEMENT. THE INVESTIGATION ALSO WAS CONCERNED WITH THE STABILITY OF THESE RELATIONSHIPS FOR TWO INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS AND FOR MALES AND FEMALES. SELECTED APTITUDE AND INTEREST MEASURES WERE STUDIED IN…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Chemistry, Class Size
Federico, Pat-Anthony; Landis, David B. – 1980
The incorporation of computer-managed instruction into an academic program made it necessary to identify those cognitive styles, abilities, and aptitudes which were relevant to the success or failure of trainees in the Navy's Basic Electricity and Electronics (BE/E) School in order to minimize the attrition rate. Measures of 6 styles, 6 abilities,…
Descriptors: Ability, Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Aptitude
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD. Population Div. – 1977
This report provides projections of the U.S. population by age, race, and sex, and of the components of population change (births, deaths, and migration). Statistical tables project the population increase annually from 1977 to 2000, and in less detail from 2000 to 2050. The author stresses that these reports are projections rather than…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Census Figures, Cohort Analysis, Death
Fenelonov, E. A. – 1979
The development and use of library statistics in the Soviet Union and systems of reporting are discussed in this speech by E.A. Fenelonov, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic, and are compared with statistical development in the United States by Vernon E. Palmour of King Research, Inc. Fenelonov emphasizes the use…
Descriptors: Centralization, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Development
Spiller, Leroy J.; Hall, Gerald L. – 1978
The Nelson-Denny Reading Test was administered to 525 community college students in English courses to determine the relationship between reading test scores, success in English courses, and overall grade point average (GPA) and to examine how expectancy charts could be used to predict which students were likely to experience academic difficulty.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Correlation, Educational Diagnosis, English Instruction
King, Gerald N. – 1978
The tendency to base educational decisions on criteria established by past policy-making has particularly serious ramifications when viewed in the context of the rapid social change expected in the latter part of the 20th century. In 1973 the Skyline Wide Educational Plan, the research component of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Project for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Decision Making, Educational Change
Richardson Foundation, Greensboro, NC. Creativity Research Inst. – 1965
A "Research Conference on the Use of Autobiographical Data as Psychological Predictors" brought together 15 research psychologists to discuss means of maximizing the use of autobiographical instruments. The purposes of the conference were to: (1) reveal experiences, statistical data, and psychological insights developed through research and the…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Conference Reports, Data Collection, Prediction
