The present paper sought to investigate the usefulness to accountability of identifying outlying schools through multiple regression. The outlier approach identifies schools which differ significantly for reasons other than variation in the predictors. The present study was not able to confirm the construct validity of the outlier approach for the…

Project GO (Generating Opportunities) established at Colorado State University in 1968, attempts to meet the academic and financial needs of financially disadvantaged students. This study was designed to produce comparative descriptive data on Project GO and regularly admitted CSU freshmen samples and to evaluate the efficiency of traditional…

Three teacher selection procedures used by a large urban school district were investigated. The relationships of certain biographical data to scores on the National Teacher Examination (NTE), an interview rating, and an experimental Experience Profile Questionnaire were examined. The final selection of teachers for the district was based on a…

Between 1981 and 1985, advancement officers' salaries stayed slightly ahead of inflation but didn't increase as much as other white-collar workers' salaries. A 1985 CASE survey of institutional advancement professionals' salaries investigated factors that influence salary, and gender was found to be a significant influence. (MLW)

The relevance of students' statements on career intentions to predictions of career choices is examined. Career intentions questionnaires were administered to the 1973 University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine graduating class at the end of their first undergraduate year and three years later at graduation. (Author/MLW)

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is a large international comparative study of the reading literacy of young students. The student population for the U.S. 2001 PIRLS (hereafter simply referred to as PIRLS) was the set of all fourth-graders in the United States, corresponding to the grade in which the highest proportion…

Three studies of prediction of academic achievement in introductory psychology courses are reported. The Achiever Personality scale of Fricke's Opinion, Attitude and Interest Survey and Brown and Holtzman's Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes made independent contributions beyond intelligence in the prediction of course grades in two of these…

Reviews definitions of the concept of cultural pluralism. Suggests criteria for defining and measuring the concept and develops a typology of cultural pluralism suitable for makinq comparative analyses. Relates types of pluralism thus identified to variations in ethnic political activity, with emphasis on Canada. (Author/MJL)

Used the Children's Emotion Projection Instrument to investigate the emotional predispositions of children from divorce or disruption and children from intact families. Results indicated that children of divorce or disruption are not more hampered emotionally than children from intact families. Discusses implications for family therapists.…

The incremental effectiveness over high school grade point average alone of the American College Testing Program, the Scholastic Aptitude Test, and the California Achievement Tests in predicting college freshmen grade point average was compared. The incremental predictive efficiency was nearly the same for each, resulting in an 18.47 percent…

A study to determine differences between graduating and withdrawing students in the University of Minnesota Dental Hygiene program is discussed. The identification of differences may prove useful in the selection process for future classes through identification of students likely to complete their education. (MLW)

Indicated that early readers are more likely to be advanced in cognitive development than are nonearly-reading peers. After one year of formal reading instruction, early readers maintained their advantage in reading achievement. Measures of concrete operations were found to predict reading achievement for early and nonearly readers. (Author/DB)

Data from two juvenile correctional facilities indicate that the deprivation model is a better predictor of adaptation to confinement for males than is the importation model. For females, variables from both deprivation and importation models have a significant impact. (Author)

The basic proposition of Lawler's model explains only a moderate amount of pay satisfaction. Dyer and Theriault add pay administration variables to Lawler's model. This expanded model accounts for more pay satisfaction variance and predicts consequences, i.e., turnover, absenteeism and pro-union attitudes, of pay dissatisfaction. (Author)

Describes a study that was conducted to establish empirically a set of instructional design project success indicators and to determine whether stakeholder perspective influences the importance attached to those indicators. Seven project success indicators were identified, suggesting that the common evaluation models are incomplete. (Author/LRW)