By using complex multiple regression models to generate regression surfaces, the relationships between academic achievement, creativity, and intelligence are examined. Findings indicate that for certain academic subjects creativity is related to achievement up to a threshold level of intelligence, but after the threshold has been reached…

A study of the predictive validity of selected admissions variables used by the University of Kentucky College of Medicine (Medical College Admissions Test subscores, undergraduate science grade point average (USGA), age, and Otis Test of Mental Ability) revealed the predictive validity of USGA and the MCAT quantitative subscore. (JT)

Item correlations performed between student ratings of instruction in various situations clearly indicate that student ratings are consistent across time, but that this consistency is related to specific educational settings and conditions as well as instructor idiosyncracies. (RC)

The relationship between intelligence, field dependence, leadership, and self-concept was studied in 88 sixth grade boys. Field independence, as measured by the Group Embedded Figures Test, was related to intelligence and self-concept. Analytic subjects exhibited more leadership than global subjects, while IQ did not differentiate subjects on any…

The Environmental Inventory was used to measure environmental values classified as follows: aesthetic, economic, political, social, theoretical, and religious. Findings indicate that these values can be validly measured in junior and senior high school and are affected by grade level (age) and amount of science instruction experienced, but not by…

Predictions about the length of time needed to fingerspell various strings in four sentences were drawn from cipher, phonological, and syntacitc models of fingerspelling production. (Author)

An alternative approach to the widespread dissemination of birth control information and devices among adolescents, involves group or individual counseling for those females who are most susceptible to unplanned pregnancies. An inferential strategy is presented for identifying, according to defined groups, unmarried adolescents who appear…

Describes an epidemiological study of the patterns and correlates of survival after early (age 62 to 64) and normal retirement (age 65). Death rates were significantly elevated during the first, fourth, and fifth years after early retirement. Pre-retirement health status was the only significant predictor of survival after early retirement.…

From a sample of eighth-grade pupils, 96 class clowns were identified and compared to a sample of 237 nonclown classmates. Clowns were predominantly males, and were seen by their teachers to be higher than nonclowns in Asserting, Unruliness, Attention Seeking, Leadership, and Cheerfulness, and to be lower in Accomplishing. (Author/CP)

The current state of theory, research, and practice in realistic job previews (RJP) for recruitment is still immature. RJPs have been used to reduce employee turnover, but not necessarily to influence the job performance of newcomers. This research looks at the background, research results, and unanswered issues. (Author/RK)

A total of 189 entering class medical students at Baylor College of Medicine were surveyed to test the hypothesis that personality traits, as measured by structured tests, are of at least equal importance to cognitive qualities in predicting medical school performance. Preliminary results supported the hypothesis. (LBH)

The notion that medical education is a rigidly structured system, consisting of a few, relatively fixed patterns leading to different career outcomes, was not supported in this study using data from the Association of American Medical College's Longitudinal Study. Evidence was found of stratification among structural factors that influence access…

Approximately 14,000 sixth grade students, representing the 10 major regions of Indonesia, were tested in mathematics, science, social studies, and Bahasa Indonesia, the offical language. Results showed that rural children learn much less than city children, and that lack of Bahasa Indonesia in the home is not a serious disadvantage. (Author/MV)

Discriminant function analysis was used to predict which college students were graduated in four years, were still enrolled after four years, left the college in good academic standing, or left after being on probation. Results were moderately successful. (Author/JKS)

Social studies grades were predicted from a variety of affective and cognitive predictor variables on a sample of eleventh grade students. Significant relationships were found for both types of variables. A measure of motivation toward education predicted grades nearly as accurately as any of the cognitive variables. (Author/JKS)