The identification of variables useful in the prediction of drug abuse has been the subject of a great deal of research. The research presented in this report attempts to add to the existing collection of information concerning variables useful in the prediction of drug abuse. An experimental instrument, the Social Factors Questionnaire, was…

This study was designed to investigate the effect of contract grading on the following variables: student performance on a cognitive posttest, final grade received in the course, student attitude toward the course, the amount of assigned reading completed by the students, the amount of time students devoted to the course, and the degree to which…

Some of the methodological considerations in school effectiveness studies are outlined and a state of the art presented. Two general theoretical models are given which provide the researcher with an overall strategy for handling such a study of school effectiveness: the Dyer Model and Production Process Model. Six statistical models which provide…

Recently the application of Bayesian statistical procedures within the field of guidance and counseling has been receiving attention. This paper justifies and illustrates a simple, direct application of Bayes' Formula to expectancy tables. To make the application a counselor must specify prior probabilities that a student will attain success…

The implications of the report are that a knowledge of quantitative areas is becoming increasingly more important in the logistics career fields. Therefore the study has emphasized predicting academic performance in quantitative courses in graduate logistics. It was expected that a useful model of this type, in conjunction with the other models,…

The accuracy of 3 measures of future income was investigated for a sample of families filing Parents' Confidential Statements with the College Scholarship Service (CSS). Measures were: parents' reports of current (1968) income; parents' estimates of 1969 income; and predictions of 1969 income made by application of least squares regression…

Consultants in change agent roles frequently overlook the importance of adequate descriptive data on the target systems they seek to influence. The state of an organization's health may operate to nullify the best of planned intervention efforts. Survey data from a large, nonpublic, metropolitan high school provided consultants from the Center…

Correlation coefficients between graduate grade point average and each of three predictor variables, consisting of Graduate Record Examinations-Verbal score, Graduate Record Examination-Quantitative score, and undergraduate grade point average, were calculated for each of the six subgroups. Results showed differential predictability across the…

Three dimensional contingency tables in which one variable is considered to be a factor and the other two variables have a natural relationship (such as left and right eye vision) are analyzed. Models involving symmetry and proportional symmetry between the related variables are also presented. (Author/JKS)

Examines the results of selected high school debate tournaments to determine whether variables other than debate skills are predictors of the outcome. Variables investigated are gender, side of the questions, and speaking position. (PD)

The author suggests that it is more efficient to cluster subjects on the basis of their profiles across several dimensions of significance and to seek "between" subgroup correlates, than to search for a moderator variable "within" levels of which criterion relationships may vary in nonrandom fashion. (Author/RK)

Applies the judgment analysis technique (JAN) to the decision-making procedure of learning disabilities (LD) specialists. Each group of learning disabilities specialists, as formed by JAN, represented a different judgmental policy or a different construct of learning disabilities. (Author/RK)

Using questionnaires administered to 566 unmarried students at the University of South Carolina, a comparison was made between reported premarital sexual behavior and projected extramarital sexual behavior. Individuals who were premaritally sexually active were found more likely to project that they would be extramaritally sexually involved.…

Examines female and male sex-role orientation with emphasis on the structural and attitudinal predictors of sex-role ideology. Findings show sex-role orientation based on nontraditional wife-mother, husband-father and problematic husband-wife alterations roles elicted a significantly more modern response from females as compared to males. (Author)

Female clerical employees (N=314) in two regional offices of a large insurance company were administered Jackson's Personality Research Form. Turnover data were collected up to eight months following administration of the questionnaire. Relationships were found between employee characteristics and turnover in both samples. (Author)