Recent work with the F-K index of the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) has reaffirmed its usefulness for identifying dissimulation. Presents normative tables for the F-K index based on a contemporary normative sample of 335 normal women and 304 normal men. (Author/ABB)

Tested patients (N=80) in an alcoholic rehabilitation program for field dependence with the Embedded Figures Test and for logical reasoning with two Piagetian tasks: the pendulum and the plant problem. Results suggested that cognitive factors play a more important role in alcoholics' response to treatment than has been recognized. (LLL)

Investigated the degree to which clinician's (N=21) tone of voice speaking about their patients could be used to predict their tone of voice in speaking to those same patients. Speech clips were content analyzed and rated. Results showed significant discriminant validity as well as predictive validity. (JAC)

Investigated whether the predictive validity of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) could be enhanced by having subjects (N=600 students) complete current and projected BDI protocols. Results confirmed that BDI scores typically decline with repeated administrations, suggesting the BDI does not discriminate between stable and unstable forms of…

Describes a simulation method for observing career information-seeking behavior. The Career Information Request (CIR) was tested at a Career Development Day for 53 high school juniors. No clear pattern of internal consistency was found among students' responses to the seven information opportunities. (JAC)

Aims to assess relationships between phonological tasks, determine their degree of convergence, and investigate the predictive power of different tasks. Ten phonological awareness tasks were administered to 58 kindergarten children whose reading abilities were assessed one year later. Seven measures were moderately related to reading ability and…

Tested the utility of an exchange model for predicting divorce or withdrawal of divorce petitions, using court records and interviews of men and women who were divorced or subsequently withdrew their divorce petitions. Discriminant function analyses indicated that an exchange model can predict divorce versus petition withdrawal. (JAC)

Refutes Mauger and Kolmodin's (1975) conclusion (see EJ 133 651) that their data does not support the author's (1968) conclusion that senior college grades are much less predictable from entrance information than freshman grades. States that their conclusion was not supported by their data and that the design of their study would allow no outcome…

In most selection validation research, only the upper and lower tails of the criterion distribution are used, often yielding misleading or incorrect results. Provides formulas and tables which enable the researcher to account more accurately for the distribution of criterion within the middle range of population. (Author/RW)

The hypothesis tested in this study: that high and low academic promise groups might show differing levels of predictability of their college grades from standard entrance measures. (Authors)

Study asses the validity of the Inventory of Religious Activities and Interests (IRAI) for predicting for theological school students three sets of interest measures that reflect aspects of training in theological school. (Author)

Validity of the SVIB for predicting career choice at the end of college was studied with able black and white men who were winners of National Achievement and National Merit Scholarships in 1966. Membership in career groups was predicted at least as well for these able blacks as it was for the whites. (Author)

Study demonstrated that test scores of 10 year olds were poor predictors of how these children would perform on the MPD 7 years later. (Authors)

Major objective in this study was the structuring of a predictive model that would assess combinations of variables that most effectively and parsimoniously measure and forecast college success. (Author)

Teachers estimated students' progress; the result, using EMR students, was no apparent statistical relationship between expectations and academic achievement. (Editor/SP)