Reviewed is the research on the early prediction of academic underachievement or learning difficulty and described are predictive projects currently underway by the author. Suggested by the review are that the child at highest risk for school learning difficulties is a later-born male, who has a history of pre or perinatal complications and who is…

The paper states and proves three propositions regarding the usefulness of the ITED (Iowa Tests of Educational Development) in preparing adult basic education students to take the GED tests. The first proposition, that the ITED can be a useful practice test for GED candidates, is supported by the fact that the ITED tests are designed to measure…

A counseling analogue study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a method for changing clients' self-perceptions in an interview. Based on causal attribution theory, an interview procedure was designed to systematically control behavioral information assumed to be utilized by individuals in inductively arriving at views of their…

Several studies have attempted to hypothesize about the probable effects on student academic performance at the Commonwealth campus versus Unitersity Park freshman admission for the Pennsylvania State University. This report imposes a framework of predictive modelling on the data in order to derive some notion of the weight of variables in…

This study attempted to determine whether sufficiently strong relationships existed between listening comprehension level and intelligence (as measured by individual tests) for the former to be used as a predictor of the latter. Ten boys and 10 girls randomly selected from each of grades 1, 3, and 5 were given the individually-administered…

The primary aim of this study was to determine whether College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) Achievement Test results provide additional information for the prediction of academic success beyond the normal data accumulated. The study presents two types of evidence: (1) a prediction of first semester grade point averages (GPA), and (2) a…

This document supplements ED 025 264, a study of 2,459 individuals enrolled in one of 43 occupation-centered curricula in 20 California junior colleges. The parent study compared students' questionnaire responses about home and educational backgrounds, and about attitudes presumably related to both vocational choice and choice of curricula leading…

Mount Royal College, a Canadian community college, has an open door policy on admissions. Hence it needs a strong counseling division in order to place entering students at appropriate skill levels. Since the American College Testing Program tests have seen limited use in Canada, research is needed to establish and validate local norms. The…

This study was designed to determine whether student response to supervision would be affected by the reinforcement of positive (or negative) attitudes toward five patterns of supervisory behavior as shown in motion pictures. For one group of vocational high school students, attitudes toward the supervisory roles "Consideration" and "Tolerance of…

An attempt to predict reading difficulty with various grammatical measures showed that the relatively crude measure of sentence length is still the most indicative. Yngve's phrase structure measurement and Allen's "sector analysis" were used on 80 selected passages and were compared to the Lorge Readability Formula in terms of tests based on the…

The goal of this research was to determine what implications student attitudes and motivational factors might have for foreign language student selection and course administration purposes in the Defense Language Institute (DLI) system. Data were collected from 326 military students at eight DLI schools studying nine different languages. Attitude…

The purpose of this study was to develop a semantic differential scale based on achievement motivation concepts by which grade point averages could be predicted. A scale was constructed and administered to 944 freshmen at Northeastern State College in Fall 1967. Two approaches were used. One was to combine semantic differential scale scores…

This study is phase one of a 4-year project. It was aimed at examining the predictive validity of six preschool screening instruments on later academic achievement. The six instruments were (1) the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test, (2) the Sprigle School Readiness Screening Test, (3) the Anton Brenner Developmental Gestalt Test of School…

The Assessment Center Method is a comprehensive, standardized procedure in which mulitple appraisal techniques are used in combination to evaluate individuals for various purposes, primarily used in a business setting to identify those with potential for higher level procedures. The dimensions to be observed and measured in an assessment center…

The grades which foreign students receive are not always based on the same criteria as the grades assigned to native American students. The use of standardized test scores provides a common data base from which to evaluate the relative proficiency level of foreign students. This study examines the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and…