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Already allocated educational funds will continue and, given the slim amount of flexible federal resources, only programs high on the administration's list of priorities will be initiated. (Author/MLF)

Two-year follow-up data for an ostensibly normal sample of children (23 males and 25 females in grades 3 through 5) who had been previously characterized on a number of behavior problem dimensions by their teachers and peers were analyzed. (Author/SBH)

The nature of outstanding and weak performance in a teaching internship and how to predict that performance were studied with 100 interns. Personal qualities dominated the list of factors contributing to both success and failure. Expected indicators were not good predictors of success when judged independently of personal qualities. (SLD)

The dispositionist bias manifests itself when behavior is overattributed to dispositions, and when contextual factors are underused when predicting behavior. Psychological processes underlying the former bias have been most thoroughly examined. Three studies support the hypothesis that trait implications of past behavior function as heuristics…

Ethnic and American identity were studied as predictors of self-esteem for 372 Latino, 232 African American, and 65 White high school students. For all groups, ethnic identity was a significant predictor of self-esteem, although it accounted for a relatively small portion of the variance. (SLD)

This study examined the degree to which samples collected in product portfolios from 216 kindergarten through second-grade students were able to predict their successful performance in a gifted program four years later. Students whose product portfolios were in the top quarter performed significantly better on later math and reading achievement…

Studied between-group differences in test-related perceptions, engagement, and performance, and within-group predictors of science performance among groups of high school students with different motivation patterns. Results for 403 high school students are discussed in terms of R. Snow's (1994) theory of aptitude complexes and their relation to…

Studied the direct effects of demographic variables, religiosity, psychosocial stress variables, and sociostructural variables on the communal attitudes of 171 African American adult men, aged 17 to 79 years. Age and educational attainment were not significantly associated with communalism. Relational stress, financial stress, and stress resulting…

Studied the interrelationship of family and peer experiences in predicting adolescent problem behaviors in an 18-year longitudinal sample of 198 adolescents from conventional and nonconventional families. The most powerful predictors of teen drug use and delinquent behaviors were similar behaviors by peers, but peer behaviors were in turn…

Multiple regression analyses of data on career maturity, work commitment, work values, self-efficacy, age, and career decidedness were conducted for 367 Australian students in grades 8-12. Chief predictors of career maturity attitudes were age, gender, and career certainty. Commitment and career indecision were the main predictors of career…

Studied the student pipeline at the University of Illinois at Chicago over a period of six years to pinpoint which attributes of entering students provide the best indicators of university success. Found that the best indicator is a modified high school percentile rank, designed specifically to take high school quality into account. (EV)

Analyzed 299 incidents involving 182 psychiatric patients over a 2-year period. Compared data with control group data from 100 nonincident patients. Findings demonstrated significant relationships between incidents and patient age, gender, diagnostic status, and number of previous incidents. (Author/NB)

Examined college students' logical reasoning ability using the Test of Logical Thinking (TOLT) as a major predictor of science acheivement. Reports an improvement on each of the subscale scores, and a significant correlation with four science subjects on both pre- and post-TOLT scores. (YP)