Analysis of responses from 536 teachers revealed that teachers' background and professional attitudes were related to their views toward six specific types of evaluation. Multifaceted approaches may be required in order to realize consensus regarding teacher evaluation. (MLF)

This study examines possibility of ranking journals in physics by means of bibliometric regression models that estimate usefulness as it is reported by 167 physicists in United States and Canada. Development of four models, patterns of deviation from models, and validity and application are discussed. Twenty-six references are cited. (EJS)

A method is developed for testing a priori multiple regression models. The method allows one to specify in advance as many unstandardized or standardized coefficients as one wants to and allows the remaining slopes to be free to vary. (Author/PN)

This report demonstrates three applications of case-mix methods using regression analysis. The results are used to assess the relative effectiveness of substance abuse treatment providers. The report also examines the ability of providers to improve client employment outcomes, an outcome domain relatively unexamined in the assessment of provider…

This paper offers a new methodology for analyzing individual differences in preference judgments with regard to a set of stimuli. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to compare five predictor models, including two least-square procedures, two probability weighting (semi-Bayesian) methods, and a Bayesian model developed by Lindley. (See also TM 501 088, TM 501 089, and TM 501 090) (Author/NE)

The present study is the first phase of a longitudinal investigation designed to isolate non-intellective factors which might increase the power to predict academic success. (Author/RK)

The present study used simulated social interactions for purposes of control and attempted to distinguish and analyze the contributions of both stimulus and perceiver, rather than assuming at the outset that either would be relatively unimportant. (Author)

The publication records of 2,205 holders of the Ph.D. in sociology are examined for the period 1940-70. The predictive efficiency of six independent variables is assessed via regression analysis. A seventh variable is used as a control. Results of the study and directions for future research are presented and discussed. (SM)

The nature of the relationship of various aspects of the modernization process to deferred/immediate goal gratification among rural Baganda living in Uganda is examined. (NQ)

This replication of earlier research tests a mathematical model for examining the conditions under which individuals innovate. By raising costs from zero -- as validated in earlier research -- to .25, this replication defines an innovation boundary at which individuals behave as predicted by their position with respect to that boundary. (Author/JH)

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)

In the case of success-failure predictions, approximately 75 percent of those predicted to succeed did and 51 percent of those predicted to fail failed. (Editor)

Four commonly employed procedures were repeatedly applied to computer-simulated samples to provide comparative data pertaining to two questions: (a) which procedure can be expected to produce and equation that yields the most accurate predictions for the population, and (b) which procedure is most likely to identify the optimal set of independent…