Intelligence test scores were found to predict achievement in high school chemistry more accurately than the Piaget-derived Longeot Test Scores. However, the construct measured by the Longeot is more clearly defined than the construct measured by the intelligence test. In this respect, the Longeot measure may be preferable to the intelligence…

Seven easily obtainable background variables were used as predictors of academic achievement in a sample of fourth grade pupils. A combination of five of these variables yielded high predictive validity. (Author/JKS)

A discussion is presented of five categories of patient variables that seem to have useful relationships with both successful rehabilitation outcome and ease of management from the standpoints of medical and vocational rehabilitation. These classes of variables have been identified through clinical experience and validated empirically.…

The Automatic Interaction Detector (AID) method of data analysis is utilized with 512 low income families. Results show that associations of the predictor variables with marital intactness are neither linear nor additive. Nevertheless, two variables emerge in explaining marital intactness: mode of decision-making and strategy of conflict…

Recognition of various abilities and skills in university degree work, and the development of an appropriate range of assessment modes to test these abilities, presupposes that students will perform differently under the various forms of assessment. The limited data available to test this supposition are reviewed and analysis of one geography…

Attempts to answer the question of whether it is profitable to operate Catholic schools and whether the failure to build new schools will cause financial and educational disaster for the next generation. (Author/RK)

Describes a study in which respondents were asked to evaluate their local newspaper, to tell which parts of the paper they considered the most useful, to state which newspaper items they read, and to tell why they read those items. (GW)

Supports the continued viability of personality variables in race relations research, but shows that education does not have a greater impact as a variable than specific personality characteristics, though that was expected. (RL)

Examines data related to correlates of scholarly productivity. Data were collected from 8,692 college and university faculty members. Findings indicate that those faculty members who publish the most articles and books receive degrees when young, develop a habit of regular output, and work in a university with a reputation for scholarship.…

The procedures, findings, and recommendations of a study designed to determine the degree of diffusion of safety education into the agribusiness programs in Alabama and to relate twelve selected teacher and situational variables to the diffusion described in this research report. (BM)

The contributions of several core variables to the white suicide rates in 24 Florida counties were examined. A prediction equation including age, crime rate, insanity, and alcoholism was found that accounted for 79 percent of the variation in the suicide rates across counties. (Author)

Develops a path-analysis model of critical variables affecting student enrollment in secondary school physics. A test of the model utilizing state provided data of physics enrollment in New York State resulted in the rejection of the model; however, significant critical variable results were obtained. (SL)

Findings of this study indicate that variables pertaining to students' value systems were statistically significant predictors of their sex attitudes and that parent attitudes toward sex are an influence on the attitudes of their sons and daughters. (MB)

This study sought to determine if the nature of disability (visual, motor, or both) could be diagnosed for children with visual-motor integration disabilities and to determine methods by which appropriate diagnoses could be made. Results were seen as supporting the existence of semiautonomous visual and motor systems. (Author)