Research indicates the necessity for predictive criteria other than grades to aid the community college student in making decisions concerning career, and goals. Three successive studies were conducted which demonstrate that unless there is a close correspondence between predictors and criteria, the available tests are able to predict only graded…

Differential prediction of grade point average for black and white freshman students was empirically investigated at 13 integrated institutions by comparison of regression planes. Particular attention was given to the possibility that prediction procedures that are appropriate for white (majority) students would under-predict the performance of…

A study of the U.S. Navy officer students who were registered in the Operations Research/System Analysis curriculum at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in spring, 1974, was conducted using biographical data, the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, and the Graduate Record Examination to develop an equation predicting academic performance of U.S.…

Performance on The Scholastic Aptitude Test-Verbal (SAT-V) and Mathematical (SAT-M), the applicant's rank in class or Converted Secondary School Rank (Rank), and the applicant's general level of measured secondary school achievement as indicated by the Average of CEEB Achievement Tests (ACH AV) has been used by Vassar College as admissions…