This study compares selected in-school characteristics found to be significantly related to in-school success, to on-the-job success as measured by the employer's evaluation. Subjects were male high school graduates of both academic and vocational curricula who were actively employed approximately one year after graduation. The research questions…

Results of a longitudinal study of the predictive validity of the School Behavior Profile (SBP) filled out by the classroom teachers of 721 first grade children indicated that: (1) First grade SBP scores are significantly related to fourth grade teacher judgments regarding the presence of behavior and attitude problems (r = -.40), (2) First grade…

A need existed to develop a graphic procedure to predict student success in 2-year engineering technology programs, based on ACT scores and high school grades. The study stemmed from the need to help students identify their chances of success, to help students clarify their goals, and to indicate needed institutional responses. Regression analysis…

This report deals with the further validation of the Environmental Deprivation Scale (EDS) as a predictor of criminal behavior and recidivism. The EDS measures the degree of supportive environmental input through 16 items assessing occupation, organizational activities, and interpersonal relationships. The data were obtained in behavioral…

The Questionnaire on Student Attitude Toward Economics (QSATE-O) was administered, as a pretest in the first week of classes and again as a posttest in the final week of classes, to the students enrolled in seven sections of Economics 101 at Ohio University. Purposes of the study were to obtain measures of student attitude toward economics at the…

Evidence regarding the contribution of the various elements in a standard admissions battery to forecasts of freshman-year performance in eight College Research Center (CRC)-member colleges is presented. Particular note is made of evidence that the CEEB Achievement Average contributes substantially more than do the SAT scores to prediction of…

Research investigated the feasibility of a diagnostic media test system. Two distinct tests were developed for sixth grade and university populations, each having: 1) a main phase with three specific teaching sequences, one for each media form; 2) test items for each teaching sequence; and 3) a validation phase with one teaching sequence…

The predictive validity and the general usability of a battery of 10 tests reported by de Hirsch, Jansky, and Langford, the de Hirsch Predictive Index Tests of reading failure, were examined. The de Hirsch battery was administered to 433 kindergarten children in six public schools. When the pupils entered first grade, the Metropolitan Readiness…

As part of a preliminary validation and to determine whether the Ohio Vocational Interest Survey (OVIS) could discriminate among the interests of high school students in six vocational areas (agriculture, distributive education, home economics, health, office, and trade and industrial), the OVIS was administered to 2,387 seniors in 24 schools…

In 1966, the Department of Defense lowered entrance standards for military service. Many of the 'New Standards' men who then entered the service were placed in remedial training programs (Army Preparatory training, APT), designed to upgrade their literacy status to a fifth-grade level or higher. The research sought to determine whether success in…

Research examined the hypothesis that predictive validity would be greater for a test given under stress instructions than for a test given under relax instructions. Ss were 254 education students in a graduate measurement course and 117 education students in an undergraduate measurement course. Ss were randomly assigned to the instructional…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of part of a comprehensive research project concerning the Finnish matriculation examination. The goal of the project was to explore the matriculation examination as a series of tests indicative of ability differences between individuals, regardless of their causes. The…

A major difficulty in predictions of school enrollments is the failure of the forecaster to express adequately his degree of certainty in his estimates. To alleviate this problem, a method was developed by which a forecaster could prepare probability distributions of enrollment predictions. A basic method of enrollment prediction was chosen and…

TWO METHODS OF RESPONSE DESCRIBED BY PIAGET AND INHELDER FOR DRAWING APPROPRIATE BOUNDARIES AND SELECTING APPROPRIATE PREDRAWN BOUNDARIES FOR HYPOTHETICALLY CUT, SOLID GEOMETRIC FIGURES WERE INVESTIGATED TO SEE WHETHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS COULD RESPOND IN APPROPRIATELY TO THE MATHEMATICAL TASKS. THE RESPONSES OF 8TH-, 10TH-, AND 12TH-GRADE…

The research questions whether many tests used by employers for employee selection do discriminate inadvertantly. Because sub-groups or minority groups tend to be culturally disadvantaged, standardized tests have many shortcomings. When used as selection devices standardized tests may: (1) not provide reliable differentiation in the range of the…