Analysis of the economics of training has become one of the most important issues of the decade for business and industry. Unfortunately, managers typically digress to a simple cost analysis and ignore the realities of cost-benefit analysis and the potential of large financial benefits to the organization. A proposed model to forecast training…

A mathematical model designed to identify admitted college applicants who pay a tuition deposit but fail to attend the college was tested. A two-group discriminant model was built using 486 Trinity University students who paid deposits and enrolled as freshmen during the 1983-1984 academic year, and 72 persons who paid tuition deposits but did not…

Forty-nine institutionalized mentally retarded Ss (11- to 26-years-old) were tested to determine the interactions of an auditory ability factor and a personality variable (Level of aspiration) in the prediction of performance on nine Spache Diagnostic Reading Scales. (LC)

In this article the author put forward some relatively novel ideas about the nature and purpose of tests and examinations. (Editor/RK)

An investigation was carried out to ascertain how 700 children aged seven to 15 (half boys and half girls), acquired the ability to define certain moral concepts, how they decided on whether an action was right or wrong, and what influenced the acquisitional process. (Author)

Middle-aged undergraduates entering or returning to the University were invited to take a precollege aptitude test battery. Predicting grades in humanities, social science, natural science, and business, as well as cumulative grades and rate of progress, was best accomplished through multiple prediction using background factors in addition to test…

Eight vocational adjustment coordinators from four Houston area school districts identified the educable mentally retarded (EMR) clients (16 to 19 years old) they predicted most likely (n=25)and least likely (n=25) to succeed in employment. Ss were individually administered L. Kohlberg's Test of Moral Reasoning (KMRT) and J. Loevinger's Washington…

This report describes how Educational Radio and Television of Iran (ERTI) can use economic and manpower projection data in its planning. A summary of the conclusions reached in regard to Iran's most important education and training needs is followed by discussion of the particular types of information needed by ERTI and its availability. The…

The past, present, and future of oral interpretation are explored in this publication. Separate articles deplore a lack of growth and development in the area of oral interpretation, examine oral interpretation's current status, describe the ideal beginning oral interpretation course, point to the value of oral interpretation in the college…

This report reviews versions of testing expectancy theory predictions of individual choice behavior. The ipsative, normative and return on effort approaches are addressed as are the issues of conceptual, methodical and empirical problems associated with each approach. In order to test the hypotheses as to which approach would yield stronger…

Examines the propensity of teachers to strike and, using a logit model, how this propensity can be affected by certain decision variables, notably a teacher's political leaning, sex, cynicism, moonlighting, colleague orientation, orientation to the public, age, teaching load, total family income, morale, and attitude toward peer evaluation.…

Presented before the General Session, as part of the Research Symposium, American College Health Association, Forty-sixth Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 3, 1968.