Community college students are often placed in developmental math courses based on the results of a single placement test. However, concerns about accurate placement have recently led states and colleges across the country to consider using other measures to inform placement decisions. While the relationships between college outcomes and such…

To aid in developing classifications of epileptics that would be predictive of day to day functioning, 369 epileptics were classified as having epilepsy only or epilepsy associated with intellectual disturbances or organic mental syndrome, other neurological handicap, or behavioral problems. (GW)

Suggests that Bretz (in an earlier article) underestimated the usefulness of the college grade point average as a predictor of job success. Reviews recent findings concerning several predictors of job performance related to education. (Author/CH)

This paper deals with two fundamental problems that are embedded in the evaluation of school practices: (1) attributing value to outcome measures, and (2) attributing outcomes to particular practices. Ways of generating evidence regarding the value of an outcome are discussed, particularly longitudinal research that clarifies the causal relations…

The Ideal Student Description Q-Sort was developed originally as a predictive instrument to determine probable success rates as teachers based upon the teacher candidate's perceptions of students in general. The Q-Sort consists of 84 items describing "openness" and "closedness" in a student and reveals the extent to which a…

This paper is a review of opinion and research concerning the objectivity and relevance of grades and grade averages as measures and as predictors of success. As measures they are ambiguous, reflecting differences in sex, basic temperament, instructors, departments, institutions, as much as levels of competence. And as a predictor of…