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Toms, John G.; Brewer, James K. – Rehabilitation Literature, 1971
Presented and applied to a sample of 239 vocational rehabilitation clients is a discrete multivariate classification procedure for predicting vocational rehabilitation outcomes using several background characteristic combinations. Several cost-of-misclassification functions are proposed. (Author/KW)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Discriminant Analysis, Prediction, Predictive Measurement
Download full textTEMPLIN, MILDRED C. – 1967
AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE MEASURED ARTICULATION PERFORMANCE OF KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN COULD PREDICT WHICH CHILDREN WOULD DEVELOP SATISFACTORY ARTICULATION AND WHICH CHILDREN WOULD CONTINUE TO MISARTICULATE AND NEED SPEECH THERAPY BY THE SECOND GRADE. IN 1960, 2,150 PREKINDERGARTEN AND KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN WERE GIVEN A PICTURE…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Children, Diagnostic Tests, Identification
Majsterek, David J.; Lord, Elizabeth N. – Diagnostique, 1991
At prekindergarten screening, 84 children were evaluated with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) and the Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration. Two years later, teachers' ratings of the students (now in first grade) on reading performance indicated that students with poor sight-word vocabularies performed lower on the…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Prediction, Predictive Measurement, Preschool Education
Sparberg, Nancy Z.; And Others – 1973
An experimental screening device designed to predict future academic failure in kindergarten children was administered to a group of kindergarten children in April. The prediction of success or failure made on the basis of the screening was correlated with the results of standardized reading readiness tests, as well as standardized achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Achievement Tests, Grade 1, Grade 3
Peer reviewedArcher, Peter; Edwards, John R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
Multivariate analyses of questionnaires and standardized test data indicated that performance at age eight could be predicted with considerable accuracy by a combination of teachers' ratings of home and personal characteristics at age five. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFriedman, Robert; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1980
The Beery-Butkenica Developmental Test and the Caldwell Test were the best predictors. Combining the academic performance with visual-motor integration results at age seven years yielded 89 percent accuracy of prediction at age nine years. The false-positive rate represents the problem of mislabeling children as school failures. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
PDF pending restorationGuinn, Nancy; And Others – 1976
A sample of 593 pilot trainees in Officer Training School were administered the Strong Vocational Interest Blank and the Officer Biographical and Attitudinal Survey. Their performance in pilot training was monitored in order to assess the effectiveness of biographical, attitudinal, and interest data in predicting pilot training criteria. Using…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Biographical Inventories, Flight Training, Higher Education
