The practices of education are often treated as analagous to those of medicine, with "testing,""diagnosis," and "treatment." The problem with this comparison is that a learning problem may not be indicative of an "illness" and that educational testing (especially norm-referenced) may be misleading. (RJG)

The eventualities in grammar, oral language, reading, and writing instruction will follow the same pattern: an initial, sharp movement toward revision, even regression, and a secondary undercurrent of informed, thoughtful pedagogy surfacing after the sour taste in the taxpayer's mouth has passed away. (Author/IRT)

Text of a speech made by Francis Keppel after receiving the James Bryant Conant Award at the Education Commission of the States (ECS) annual meeting. (MLF)

Undergraduate grade point average and ACT scores correlated significantly with NATIONAL TEACHER EXAMINATIONS scores. (Editor)

Responds to a paper by Brant Burleson and continues the dispute regarding whether argument-as-product or argument-as-interaction should be regarded as the paradigm case or exemplar of argument. Defends the primacy of the interactional view by reference to the shortcomings of the serial predicative view. (JMF)

Describes a research study in which good readers were able to predict more successfully the outcomes of both concrete and abstract stories than were poor readers. (MKM)

Horizontal and vertical prediction performance matrix analyses on 15 early identification studies of children at risk for school problems suggested ten conclusions, including the following: that teacher perceptions and behavioral skill analyses seem to be efficient and useful predictors of school problems; and that physical indices, developmental…

The article provides a rationale for future studies, suggestions for educational directions, and an outline for "imaging the future" for gifted and talented students. (PHR)

Discusses how patterned reading materials may be used in initial reading to help students use their semantic and syntactic knowledge to predict meaning. (DD)

A discussion of effects of grades on teacher ratings. It is shown that when grades across courses are used, theory predicts a positive relationship, and this has been found. When grades within a course are used, theory gives no clear predictions and evidence is ambiguous. (Author/AV)

Relevant literature on student activism was reviewed so as to discover leads for predictions about differences between activists and non-activists in the way they might be expected to rank the terminal and instrumental values from Rokeach's Value Survey. (Editor)

A multiple regression approach is used to assess the feasibility of reciprocal prediction between the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire scales and the California Psychological Inventory scales (i.e., the prediction of each 16PF scale from the CPI scales and of each CPI scale from the 16PF scales). (RC)

Treats the proportion of dropouts from secondary schools as leading indicators of the educational system's performance and reviews the use of certain variables for the prediction of dropout flows. The underlying relationships are studied in the form of a two-equation econometric model. (Author/IRT)

Resampling results with real data for 1,000 test responses and 2,902 young adults show that for unidimensional and multidimensional models the item response theory (IRT) estimator is a more accurate predictor of the domain score than is the classical percent-correct score. (SLD)

Examined empathy, prosocial behavior, number of friends, self-reported popularity, and forms of interpersonal forgiveness as predictors of peer victimization among 52 seventh and eighth graders. High popularity was associated with low victimization, and interpersonal forgiveness scores were the strongest predictors of self-reported victimization,…