Examined whether infants believe that size of a moving object striking a stationary object will affect how far the stationary object is displaced. Found that the infants did believe the size of the test cylinder affected the length of the test object's displacement and that they used the initial familiarization event to calibrate their predictions…

Using 308 patients referred for neuropsychological evaluation, 2 regression equations were developed to predict weighted raw score sums for General Memory and Delayed Recall using the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised (WMS-R) analogs of 5 subtests from the original WMS. The equations may help reduce WMS-R administration time. (SLD)

Two experiments involving 137 undergraduates tested the premise that the underlying stereotyping processes used by blacks and whites are similar. Findings suggest that the race of the perceiver may moderate the predictions of the complexity-extremity, assumed-characteristics, and expectancy-violation models. (SLD)

Studied educational attainment in a longitudinal study of 2,038 Dutch secondary school students and found motivation, metacognition, and self-regulation to be predictors of attainment, along with student background variables and prior achievement. Metacognitive and self-regulation variables were scarcely related to mean achievement. (SLD)

Studied the interrelationships among characteristics of undergraduate students and the characteristics that predicted achievement in samples of 71 mature-age students entering from an enabling program and 61 younger students entering from high school. Results add to the literature on links between psychological characteristics and academic…

Examined the extent to which subscales and scales developed from the Distance Education Student Progress (DESP) Inventory (D. Kember and others, 1995) were associated with attrition and persistence of 258 external students in the Bachelor of Education Program at an Australian university. Discriminant analysis of 15 factors of the DESP Inventory…

Compared the Parenting Stress Index (R. Abidon, 1990), the Behavior Assessment System for Children (C. Reynolds and R. Kamphaus, 1992), and an informal letter/number probe as predictors of first grade reading and mathematics achievement for 92 children early in the kindergarten year. Results show that number and letter recognition were the best…

Evaluated the usefulness of three approaches for predicting college grades: traditional regression models, high-school-effects models, and hierarchical linear models. Found that both the high-school-effects and the hierarchical linear models were more accurate predictors of freshman GPA than the traditional model, particularly for lower-ability…

Elementary teachers can use weather folklore to help students explore and discover facts about weather. An experiment with woolly bear caterpillars examines whether their stripes can predict what kind of winter weather there will be. A investigation about moon halos and rain gives students experience setting up investigations based on questions…

Discusses what education and schools may be like 10 years into the future in school design, community buildings, security, and technology. Forecasts examine how schools will return to their roots in the community, why technology will change the lives of students and teachers, and how security will largely rely on issues of school design and…

Examined gender differences in the consistency of attributions over time, general attributional style, and explanations for performance in a college course. Student surveys showed no differences in general attributional style by gender, nor interactions between gender and accuracy in predicting course performance on participants' perceptions of…

Makes the case that hierarchical linear models or longitudinal multilevel models are a better alternative than standard regression models for empirical tests of predictive developmental hypotheses. Describes a multivariate longitudinal model linking developmental data to a criterion and presents an example from a study of the prediction of infant…

In studies of function transformation, participants initially are taught to match stimuli in the presence of a contextual cue, X; the stimuli to be matched bear some formal relation to each other, for example, a relation of opposition or difference. In a second phase, the participants are taught to match arbitrary stimuli (say, A and B) in the…

This article aims to examine determinants of social integration in the community among college students. Two-wave panel data from an undergraduate student sample (N = 310) was used to explore the effects of multiple sets of variables (personal, interpersonal, and situational) on social integration in the community. Structural equation analysis…

The authors examined the evolution of cognitive and emotional responses to terror risks for a nationally representative sample of Americans between late 2001 and late 2002. Respondents' risk judgments changed in ways consistent with their reported personal experiences. However, they did not recognize these changes, producing hindsight bias in…