Describes a staffing matrix that provides a concise summary making it possible to compare race and sex groups on any staffing action. (Author/IRT)

This report is meant to help juvenile courts develop practical risk-screening instruments. Courts increasingly are using some method of risk classification to assist in assignment of youth to differential service/supervision programs. A comparison of commonly used or advocated risk classification methods may provide courts with guidance in…

Anticipation guides--work sheets that students complete before reading a book--can be invaluable tools for building prediction skills and helping students learn where to focus their attention. In this book, veteran teachers Joanne I. Hines and Pamela J. Vincent offer classroom-tested anticipation guides for a variety of trade books sure to engage…

This paper introduces a new decision support tool, data mining, in the context of knowledge management. The most striking features of data mining techniques are clustering and prediction. The clustering aspect of data mining offers comprehensive characteristics analysis of students, while the predicting function estimates the likelihood for a…

This paper presents a research model based on an alumnae/alumni study designed to predict career success from personal background characteristics, career experiences, career opportunities, and attitudes. Results from 336 business major undergraduate and graduate alumnae or alumni reveal that those most likely to achieve career success were male,…

This paper examines how predictive modeling can be used to study application behavior. A relatively new technique, artificial neural networks (ANNs), was applied to help predict which students were likely to get into a large Research I university. Data were obtained from a university in Iowa. Two cohorts were used, each containing approximately…

Students are often evaluated on the basis of their aggregate or average performance on diverse tasks in each school subject. When the target of prediction is such global measures as course grades, academic self-efficacy, too, should be able to reflect equivalent scope and generality to maximize its predictive utility. Academic self-efficacy in the…

When multiple regression is used to develop a prediction model, sample size must be large enough to ensure stable coefficients. If sample size is inadequate, the model may not predict well in future samples. Unfortunately, there are problems and contradictions among the various sample size methods in regression. For example, how does one reconcile…

The organization of knowledge has been identified as a crucial element for the facilitation of learning based on theories of teaching for understanding, information processing, schemata development, and constructivism. This study reports on the validation of a teaching and learning tool through an investigation in which 44 college students…

The 2000 Tennessee School Systems Report Card data for 138 Tennessee public school systems were examined to identify variables that predict student performance in reading, language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, writing, high school competency examinations, attendance, and graduation. The dependent variable was school system grade…

A cognitive theory of interest is proposed and tested that will allow for predicting the degree to which any informational environment is perceived as interesting. This theory is the knowledge-schema theory of cognitive interest (KST) (A. Yarlas, 1998). The KST states that when learning is produced by information in an environment through either…

This study is a followup to a study that reported on the results of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) for Boise State University freshmen and seniors. This study examined which of the many activities on the NSSE best predicted personal estimates of growth while at Boise State as well as perceived satisfaction with the university.…

The American College Testing (ACT) Program's Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP) was chosen as Arkansas'"rising junior exam" to measure learning in the general education curriculum. A study was conducted with a group of 124 college students to determine the predictability of CAAP scores based on ACT scores and cumulative…

Society has too often ignored the manifestations of low-level aggression among children that, when rewarded, grow into often intractable high-level aggression. This book explores low-level aggression, its escalation, and how to deal with it. Chapters are: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Verbal Maltreatment"; (3) "Physical Maltreatment"; (4) "Criminal…

Four methods of handling missing data were applied to missing values for variables selected from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988. Variables used were those selected by K. Singh and M. Ozturk (1999) for a study concerning high school students' academic achievement and work. Samples selected consisted of 100 cases, 300 cases, and…