This report describes work using nationally representative 2005 data from the School Nutrition Dietary Assessment-III (SNDA-III) study to develop a simulation model to predict the potential implications of changes in policies or practices related to school meals and school food environments. The model focuses on three domains of outcomes: (1) the…

Proposed a method of predicting the mean rating of the cooperating teacher and college supervisor of student teachers on the Teacher Observation Rating Scale. Direct observation and operationally defined personality measures predicted student teacher performance more accurately than the prediction of academic performance in education. (Author/JAC)

The study examined a group of third grade students from Kuwait, considered gifted based on their mental ability, to determine if intelligence is a meaningful predictor of gifted behaviors. The gifted behaviors studied were learning, motivation, creativity, and leadership. Three hundred students, their mothers (N=300), and teachers (N=142)…

Data-mining technology's predictive modeling was applied to enhance the prediction of enrollment behaviors of admitted applicants at a large state university. (Contains 4 tables and 6 figures.)

Most British universities accept students conditional upon A-level grades and place little reliance on recommendations. A study of social science undergraduates shows the importance of attitudinal variables and the headmaster's report in predicting success at the university. More attention should be paid to these reports. (IS)

The optimal allocation of Air Force talent requires, among other considerations, the measurement of both enlistee aptitudes and job aptitude requirements. Although objective procedures are available to measure aptitudes accurately, the procedure presently employed for establishing relative aptitude requirements is both unsystematic and subject to…

Four systems for scoring student essays were used to classify eleventh grade and undergraduate students according to writing ability. The reliabilities of the raters and the validities of the systems in classifying students were emphasized. Two analytic scoring systems--which assume that quality writing is characterized by the inclusion of certain…