Paper discusses the nature of the suppressor variable, constraints upon the degree of gain in predictability by the addition of a suppressor, and the distinct aims of prediction and of construct measurement. (Authors/MB)

It was concluded that prediction of success in remedial mathematics courses can be made correctly 71 percent of the time using five select predictors: high school average, mathematics test score, attitude toward mathematics score, sentence test score, and mathematics interest score. (Author)

Study concerned with identifying and measuring self-made academic predictions of entering junior college freshmen and with relating these predictions to past and future academic performance, as well as to measures of scholastic aptitude. (Authors)

The usefulness of the Vane Kindergarten Test in the early identification of children with learning problems was tested. (Author/GW)

Examination of nutrition education in light of educational research can determine teaching approaches which have the greatest potential for long-range application of nutrition knowledge. (BL)

Primary purpose of this study was to survey those values considered important by adolescents so that a framework for the construction of a scale pertinent to the measurement of self-concept could be developed. (Author)

Various reasons are given for the unrealiability of class rank as an indicator of academic success; author is head of a small private college-preparatory school. (SP)

Projecting present trends, the author envisions the possibility of business-run institutes replacing universities as training centers, and the eventual separation of professional schools from liberal arts education, the latter focusing on educating a leisure class for self-motivated and self-centered, inherently and personally satisfying" work.…

Successful instructional programs are shaped through teachers' understanding of student attitudes. This study indicates that this understanding may be lacking in today's high schools. (Editor)

A review of Character Structure and Impulsiveness," by David Kipnis. (MB)