This study sought to describe, measure and analyze career patterns from early adolescence into early adulthood, and to measure vocational maturity in junior high school years and explore its predictive validity for subsequent career pattern events. Markov chain analysis was used for the first objective, and multiple discriminant analysis for the…

The purpose of this study was to assess the validity of the Verbal Ability and Quantitative Ability scores of the Graduate Record Aptitude Test (GRE-V, GRE-Q) and undergraduate grade point average (GPA) as predictors of graduate grade point average in the Master of Arts degree program at Northern Michigan University. The subjects were 120 students…

Prediction of effectiveness in adjusting to military life has been reasonably successful by depending on such demographic variables as level of schooling attained, family background, and age, or such measured factors as intelligence; but most of the variance is still unaccounted for and should be found in motivational factors. The present study…

In the fall of 1961, the Bureau of Educational Studies and Testing developed a procedure for predicting the first semester grade point average (GPA) of entering freshmen at Indiana University from a combination of their CEEB Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores and their high school ranks. This procedure was updated in 1965. The 1969 revision is…

The objectives of this study were to: (1) develop a rationale and structure for quantifying individual demands of people for vocational education, (2) demonstrate a method of quantifying these demands, and (3) develop a set of guidelines for administratores at State and local levels for determining individual demand for vocational education.…

The report constitutes a comprehensive review of the literature related to career motivation and selection procedures. It surveyed the reported techniques for measuring career motivation and interest which were used by 24 industrial firms, 14 personnel and management consulting organizations, 8 marketing research firms, and various governmental…

THE PREDICTIVE ABILITY OF TWO INTELLIGENCE TESTS ON A CROSS-CULTURAL SAMPLE WAS STUDIED. THE STANDARD PROGRESSIVE MATRICES AND THE D. 48 TEST WERE ADMINISTERED TO 1,579 GIRLS IN GRADES 9 THROUGH 12. OTHER TEST SCORES WERE OBTAINED FROM STUDENT RECORDS. THE CROSS-CULTURAL GROUPS CONSISTED OF (1) INDO-EUROPEAN, (2) SPANISH-AMERICAN, (3) NEGRO, AND…

Predictability of GPA of college students who successfully appealed admission denial was evaluated by a reciprocal averages technique. Index scores for these high-risk students obtained from 5 of 23 variables correlated significantly with GPA in developmental and cross-validation samples. A trial use of the index to screen in applicants was…

More than 1000 persons were located more than 12 years after taking the Kuder Occupational Survey. Fifty-one percent were employed in occupations consistent with their early interest profiles. These people did not report greater job satisfaction or success but did show greater continuance in their occupational career. (Author/SE)

In positively assessing Johnson (1978) (AA 529 124), this research proposes that the basic purpose of normative models of selection strategies is the development of continuous quantitative measures of problem-solving efficiency, while descriptive models determine degree of correspondence between formal normative models and actual behavior.…

The conversion model of formal reasoning was examined for its ability to predict the decisions made by college students when solving concrete and abstract syllogisms. Results supported the model's contentions that reasoner's decisions reflect natural language processes in the encoding of syllogistic premises, and follow rationally from…

The split-population exponential design suggested by Maltz and McCleary to predict parolee recidivism (TM 502 998) was applied to discharged psychiatric inpatients. Parameter estimates changed systematically as greater and greater observation time was allowed in the computation, thus limiting extrapolability. (Author/GDC)

Seeks to appraise the present status of teacher expectation by posing the question, "Are we expecting too much of expectation?", and to locate the self-fulfilling prophecy--in all its variant forms--firmly within an interactionist framework. (Editor/RK)

Attempts to compare the characteristics of the ego development continuum as revealed by incomplete sentences and self-report scales and also to ascertain how well the structured personality inventory can estimate the ego development stages as assessed by the Sentence Completion Test (SCT).

Investigates the feasibility of an alternative scoring procedure for the Semantic Differential (SD) that would permit easier analysis by psychotherapists so that the SD's use might increase as a measure of therapy process or outcome. (Author/RK)