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Download full textKWON, LINDA JO – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO TEST THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A MEASURE OF DEFINITENESS OF VOCATIONAL-EDUCATIONAL GOALS AND THE ACADEMIC SUCCESS OF UNIVERSITY FRESHMEN. THE SAMPLE SELECTED CONSISTED OF EVERY TENTH STUDENT, 360 TOTAL, WHO ENROLLED IN THE FALL OF 1966 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. LESSER SAMPLES WERE RANDOMLY SELECTED FROM THIS…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
ANDERSON, ROGER C. – 1966
DATA WERE COLLECTED FROM SCHOOL RECORDS FOR 876 STUDENTS ENROLLED IN SIX TECHNICAL PROGRAMS FROM 1961-63. THIS PROVIDES EIGHT BIOGRAPHICAL AND 17 ACADEMIC VARIABLES WHICH WERE EXAMINED FOR THEIR USEFULNESS IN PREDICTING STUDENT SUCCESS. THE STUDENT SAMPLE WAS DIVIDED INTO GRADUATES AND NONGRADUATES. NONGRADUATES WERE THOSE WHO ATTENDED FOUR OR…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis
KRAUSKOPF, C.J.; AND OTHERS – 1965
A SERIES OF STUDIES WAS REPORTED ON INCREASING ACCURACY IN CLINICAL PREDICTION BY USING AN IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK PROCEDURE. THE GENERAL DESIGN IMPOSED EIGHT EXPERIMENTS AND THREE SETS OF ITEMS. SET ONE TESTED PREDICTIVE LEVEL BEFORE FEEDBACK. SET TWO WAS THE TRAINING SET. SET THREE TESTED THE EFFECT OF FEEDBACK TRAINING. THE PREDICTOR VARIABLE WAS…
Descriptors: College Students, Counselor Training, Feedback, Grade Point Average
O'Bryan, K. G. – 1980
A study of the Windsor (Ontario) Early Identification Project's (WEIP's) longitudinal results on 464 students who had been kindergarten participants in the original study (1975) is described. Attempts to test the WEIP for use with younger children revealed that the current assessment battery was unsuitable for this age group. Followup of original…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Followup Studies, Handicap Identification
Dempsey, Jack R.; And Others – 1979
This report refines and improves upon a conceptual model and a mathematical procedure, based upon a blend of Likelihood Function Estimation (LIFE) and utility theory. Empirical studies conducted by the Air Force Military Personnel Center in 1975 and 1976 have shown that the LIFE procedure can be very useful in the prediction and study of…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Military Personnel, Military Training, Persistence
Yuker, Harold E. – 1968
A study of all Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores reported to Hofstra University between September 1963 and February 1968 revealed that 27 persons had repeated the verbal part of the GRE, 27 retook the quantitative part, and 39 retook the advanced test. The interval between test and retest ranged from 2 to 40 months. The GRE scores of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Prediction, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Carter, Homer L. J. – 1968
The acts of diagnosis described in this paper aid in the determination of relevant, material, and consequential factors in a clinical study. These acts, which are not necessarily sequential, are identification, assumption, rejection, acceptance, discovery, explanation, prediction, and verification. The clinician with this model in mind will be…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods, Identification, Prediction
Dreher, Barbara B. – Speech Monographs, 1968
One hundred short test items representing the style and grammatical usage of ten preschool age children were selected from large samples of their narrative and directive speech. Three groups of adults predicted successive words in an effort to reconstruct the actual vocabularies and grammatical forms of the utterances. The predictors' correct…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Usage, Prediction, Predictive Measurement
Nash, Nicholas – 1978
The purpose of this paper is to review the development of the Delphi technique and to explore some examples of its application in educational research. The discussion of the technique's development is intended to help potential users of the method see more clearly its liabilities as well as its potential. The eight examples of the technique's use…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Prediction
Federal Energy Administration, Washington, DC. – 1976
This brochure begins with findings and conclusions of the 1975 NATIONAL ENERGY OUTLOOK. Discussions of national energy topics follow, including: What Are the Roots of Our Energy Problem? How Did We Become So Vulnerable to Oil Imports?; How Much Energy Will the Nation Consume?; How Will the National Meet Its Growing Energy Demands by 1985; How Much…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Factors, Energy, Environment
Fine, Gary A. – 1975
The divisions between social psychology, naive psychology, and folklore are fundamentally artifical ones. It is argued that all three have many of the same goals--that is, the prediction and control of behavior and the comprehension of the orderly processes of everyday life. Each attempts to understand how social intercourse is to proceed.…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Interpersonal Relationship, Prediction, Proverbs
Harris, Mary B.; Fisher, Judith L. – 1973
In order to discover the effects of success and failure on subsequent aggressiveness, 26 male and 55 female college students were randomly assigned to success, failure, and neutral conditions. Those in the success condition were led to feel they were superior to other college students on a task, those in the failure condition were led to feel they…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Failure
Linn, Bernard S.; And Others – 1973
Ninety-eight medical students rated themselves and their fellow students using the Physician Performance Rating Scale (PPRS). Two factors were studied: a knowledge factor (judgement, ability) and a relationship factor (appearance, interpersonal relationships, ability to communicate). Reliability between peer and self ratings was significant but…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Medical Services, Medical Students, Peer Groups
Smith, Russell L.; And Others – 1974
The study investigates the potential utility of a predictor instrument in the training of manual control operators in aircraft simulators. Various predictor display design configurations were presented to subjects during training trials on an aircraft approach to landing task. Subsequently, subjects were tested on trials devoid of the predictor…
Descriptors: Aircraft Pilots, Feedback, Flight Training, Prediction
Richards, James M., Jr. – 1970
This paper presents an analysis and results of the Project TALENT questionnaire given in high-school, the 1-year follow-up questionnaire, and the 5-year follow-up questionnaire, as these dealt with anticipated or actual college majors. A series of tables are presented indicating the fields included in various categories of college majors; the…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, College Students, Higher Education, Majors (Students)
