If an effective school is defined as a school that causes student improvement on a number of important educational outcomes, the problem of identifying effective schools becomes one of establishing legitimate predictions of student performance and comparing those predictions to actual student or school outcomes. In attempting to identify effective…

The Tutorial Assistance Program (TAP) of the University of California (Irvine) is described and a new method of evaluation is illustrated through an analysis of the performance of students in six large introductory classes. This approach to evaluation starts with a multiple regression equation for predicting course grades of those not in tutoring…

The former HEW National Strategy for Youth Development Model was a community-based planning and procedural tool designed to enhance positive youth development and prevent delinquency through a process of youth needs assessment, development of targeted programs, and program impact evaluation. A series of 12 Impact Scales most directly reflect the…

A counseling program for senior medical school students is described. Each student who wishes to participate is provided with a prediction of his or her Federal Licensing Examination (FLEX) score, as well as the probability of passing the FLEX in Arkansas. Predictions were computed by performing regression analyses to obtain equations relating…

The logit methodology provides a unique way of examining input-output relationships for social systems where the principal output of the analysis is a probability of some action or state. (Author)

Describes a study that measured the statistical correlation between the extent of educational services provided for exceptional children, as indicated by percentage of eligible children served and percentage of funds spent for special education, and state fiscal capacity, as indicated by per-capita income and per-pupil assessed valuation.…

Salary data were gathered for 1985-86 from 463 faculty at the University of Northern Colorado. Discrimination variables studied included gender, race, and age, and university characteristic variables were rank, degree and tenure status, time in rank, and academic discipline. Multivariate procedures employed included multiple linear regression…

General fund resource allocation and utilization in 27 academic departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara, during 1977-1984 were examined. A two-step research methodology was employed to provide a comprehensive analysis of possible budgetary determinants. The first step entailed a pooled multivariate regression analysis with eight…

Age differences in intellect as reflected by performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (Revised) (WAIS-R) were evaluated for persons aged 20 to 74 years. Educational attainment levels were held constant. The WAIS-R sample included 1,480 men and women in the following seven age groups--20-24 years (n=250), 25-34 years (n=250), 35-44…

The accuracy and variability of 4 cross-validation procedures and 18 formulas were compared concerning their ability to estimate the population multiple correlation and the validity of the sample regression equation in the population. The investigation included two types of regression, multiple and stepwise; three sample sizes, N = 30, 60, 120;…

The major purpose of this investigation is to identify the extent to which selected motivational, aptitude, interest, and attitudinal criteria predict academic success in social science courses for transfer and occupational-technical community college students. (Author)

Investigates the sources of wage differentials for the faculty of a large urban university. Variables include sex, race, department differentials, age, seniority, education, and academic rank. (Author/DN)

Identification and explication of construct relationships, under conditions of extraneous variable control in multiple regression and its multivariate analog, canonical analysis, were studied. Several data models were generated as a function of the interaction of partial correlation and orthogonal linear transformations on nursing examination…

Aside from the theoretical issues involving the validity of inferences from surveys, the basic problem of producinq unbiased estimates of regression parameters and estimates of the associated standard errors has been a particularly difficult issue in dealing with results from stratified multistage sample designs such as the one used in the…