In this study, the manner in which IQ test results were communicated to teachers appeared to have no significant influence on student achievement or IQ scores. (Author)

Industrially advanced societies increasingly encourage the skills of bureaucrats and technicians rather than the creative ones--because their universities admit students on the basis of intelligence-test scores and secondary school grades, two measures which have practically no correlation with real-life creativity." (Author/AL)

A single subtest score that might be out of pattern for a youngster means little if other subtest scores that correlate highly with the subtest in question are in pattern. (Author)

Assessment of reliability and validity of the Arthur Adaptation of the Leiter International Performance Scale and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test when used with preschool language delayed children showed both stable, but the former much more predictive of later functioning on the WISC and a broader measure of intellectual functioning. (KW)

Describes an experimental study whose aim was to establish criteria and a method for predicting drop-outs and completions in adult education courses. (AN)