Describes a study designed to determine the correlations between scores on a reading test and a self concept test and the persons admitted to and completing a program in nursing and those not completing the program. (TO)

First-year grade average was predicted from verbal and mathematical aptitude tests, standardized achievement tests in English, mathematics, and physics, and high school marks separately for males and females in order to study the sex differences in the predictability of academic achievement. The data came from five public universities over a…

The usefulness of certain psychological tests administered during infancy for the prediction of intelligence test performance during early childhood was the focus of this investigation. (Authors)

Results suggest that biodata provide a reliable set of measures to be used in the prediction of need for approval in male college freshmen. (Authors)

Describes scales measuring attitudes toward violence and determining social values. In a study of American males, attitudes toward violence are strongly related to basic values, attitudes toward others, and the language used to describe events." (Author/AL)

The KDP scale was found to be ineffective as a predictor of Ss' contacts with law enforcement agencies but of some use in predicting school social adjustment and reading achievement. (Editor)

Scale values are based on the deviation of actual college grades of a high school's graduates from those predicted on the basis of high school percentile rank and the American College Test (ACT) Composite score. (Author/DG)

Results in this study suggest that it is possible to use performance on a moderator or predictability scale to select a subgroup for whom correspondence between two predictors and the criterion is much greater than that of a subgroup whose scores on the moderator indicate a lesser degree of correspondence. (Author/ES)

Urging more research, the authors state a study of steel company supervisors and executives shows the Bernreuter Personality Inventory and demographic variables had limited usefulness in understanding or predicting managerial psychological need satisfaction." Article includes five tables and a full discussion of same. (Authors/PD)

Hostility scores, as measured by the Scrambled Sentence Test, were found to be statistically significant negative predictors of course achievement in a meteorology course at a military installation. (MS)

This paper describes a method for selecting tests to identify educational deficiencies of incoming university freshmen. On the basis of pilot study results, the Stanford High School Reading and Advanced Mathematics Computation Tests were administered to the population of incoming freshmen. Sample results closely approximated population results.…