Characteristics that might help predict student prominence within a medical school class were studied. The prominent student is one who is highly visible and extensively involved in key relationships with other students. This prominence is expected to provide the student with greater access to information and resources held by classmates. A total…

The approach used at Western Illinois University in fiscal year (FY) 1987 and FY 1988 to develop a more proactive planning style is described. The approach involves a process of identifying and monitoring issues and opportunities that includes the following: (1) environmental scanning to identify issues, which are then rank-ordered for their…

The study was conducted to provide formulae by which College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) General Examination scores may be predicted from scores earned on the American College Test (ACT) Assessment. Five basic areas of liberal arts achievement are measured by the CLEP General Examinations: English Composition, Humanities, Mathematics, Natural…

This effort is part of a project designed to identify mathematical requirements related to Navy electronics training. The relationship between mathematics ability and electronics performance in the Navy's Basic Electricity and Electronics (BE/E), Class "A," and Class "C" schools was examined to identify the mathematics skills…

In a study investigating the nature of questioning, a group of subjects with little relevant knowledge and a group with a great deal of relevant knowledge were asked to prepare a chocolate mousse. During the preparation, the subjects were allowed to ask any number of questions and each was answered immediately. Results showed that the number of…

Twenty-one elementary and 19 secondary emotionally disturbed (ED) children were administered the Paired Hands Test (PDT), an index of social adjustment in which Ss are asked to indicate what the hands in the photographed test item are doing. A list of emotional indicators was compiled by comparing Ss' test responses with those of 1235 nondisturbed…

Analysis of the economics of training has become one of the most important issues of the decade for business and industry. Unfortunately, managers typically digress to a simple cost analysis and ignore the realities of cost-benefit analysis and the potential of large financial benefits to the organization. A proposed model to forecast training…

A mathematical model designed to identify admitted college applicants who pay a tuition deposit but fail to attend the college was tested. A two-group discriminant model was built using 486 Trinity University students who paid deposits and enrolled as freshmen during the 1983-1984 academic year, and 72 persons who paid tuition deposits but did not…

Forty-nine institutionalized mentally retarded Ss (11- to 26-years-old) were tested to determine the interactions of an auditory ability factor and a personality variable (Level of aspiration) in the prediction of performance on nine Spache Diagnostic Reading Scales. (LC)

In this article the author put forward some relatively novel ideas about the nature and purpose of tests and examinations. (Editor/RK)

An investigation was carried out to ascertain how 700 children aged seven to 15 (half boys and half girls), acquired the ability to define certain moral concepts, how they decided on whether an action was right or wrong, and what influenced the acquisitional process. (Author)

Middle-aged undergraduates entering or returning to the University were invited to take a precollege aptitude test battery. Predicting grades in humanities, social science, natural science, and business, as well as cumulative grades and rate of progress, was best accomplished through multiple prediction using background factors in addition to test…

Eight vocational adjustment coordinators from four Houston area school districts identified the educable mentally retarded (EMR) clients (16 to 19 years old) they predicted most likely (n=25)and least likely (n=25) to succeed in employment. Ss were individually administered L. Kohlberg's Test of Moral Reasoning (KMRT) and J. Loevinger's Washington…

This report describes how Educational Radio and Television of Iran (ERTI) can use economic and manpower projection data in its planning. A summary of the conclusions reached in regard to Iran's most important education and training needs is followed by discussion of the particular types of information needed by ERTI and its availability. The…