Attention was focused on the effectiveness of single versus multiple variables, the differences between outcome variables, and nonlinearity of some relationships. (Author)

The author suggests that we should try to divert a little of our time and energy away from maintaining the vast educational apparatus that we have created, towards the task of obtaining vantage points from which the longer term choices that face us can be identified, and the significance of present day decisions in relation to these choices…

In comparing individual intelligence tests with individual reading achievement tests, it was found that the readingtests surpass individual intelligence tests in ability to predict successful graduation from regular high school classes for low achieving students. (Author/KJ)

Discusses the improvement in the ability to predict chronic offenders and in programs designed to respond to the problems that chronic offenders have with their families, school, and peers. (JOW)

Discusses how findings from current research on the human brain indicate that the best predictions are made when forecasters draw on both sides of the brain--the intuitive, holistic right side as well as the analytic, objective left side. (AM)

Futures--agreements between buyers and sellers to execute transactions sometime in the future at prices agreed upon today--are a convenient crystal ball through which economic prophets can gaze at the future. How futures prices work and how anyone can use them to predict the economic future are discussed. (Author/RM)

In a study involving 78 first-year college students, 19 of whom had been identified as learning disabled (LD), it was found that scores on the American College Test, Standard Test of Academic Skills, and grade point average could be used to predict LD with 84 percent accuracy. (Author/CL)

Forty-nine families were followed up 14 months after completing a training program for parents of mentally retarded children. Relationships between predictor variables (mother's posttraining knowledge of behavioral principles and followthrough programing) and outcome variables (including parents' socioeconomic status) yielded prediction formulae.…

As hypothesized, placement of mentally retarded adult workers into competitive employment was predicted by participant's work behavior and job skills, ability to meet job requirements, and the presence of reinforcements within the employment setting. (CL)

Clarifies intentions and basis of remarks made in Macfarlane (1963) concerning the relationship of early character structure to later character structure and life outcomes. (Author/RH)

It is suggested that both similarity and analogy involve a process of structural alignment and mapping. The structure mapping process is described as it has been worked out for analogy, and this view is then extended to similarity and used to generate new predictions. (SLD)

Gives an account of classical test theory that shows how it can be viewed as a mean and variance approximation to a general version of item response theory and then shows how this approach can give insight into predicting the true score of a test and the true scores of tests not necessarily parallel to the given test. (SLD)

The Risk Appraisal Instrument was adapted and applied to records of 538 graduates of a nursing program 1995-1998. The instrument correctly classified nearly 61% of failures on the National Council Licensure Exam for Registered Nurses and correctly predicted 72% of overall results. In comparison, statistically more complex methods classify 76-92%…