THE PREDICTIVE SKILLS OF CLINICAL JUDGES WERE TESTED TO DETERMINE (1) IF VALIDATION EXPERIENCE AFFECTS THE ACCURACY OF CLINICAL JUDGMENT AND (2) IF THE CLINICAL JUDGE KNOWS WHEN TO DEVIATE FROM STATISTICAL PREDICTIONS. EIGHTEEN COUNSELORS WHO HAD PARTICIPATED IN A PREVIOUS INVESTIGATION OF PREDICTIVE SKILLS TOOK PART IN THE EXPERIMENT. ALL…

IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN PREDICTING OR EXPLAINING STUDENT CHOICE, PERFORMANCE, AND PERSISTENCE IN REPRESENTATIVE CAREER PROGRAMS, A TEST BATTERY WAS ADMINISTERED TO ALL ENTERING FRESHMEN AT BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE, FALL, 1965. GRADE AVERAGES AND SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST SCORES WERE ALSO COMPILED. ANALYSES OF DATA WERE COMPLETED…

To assess the reading ability of military service applicants and accessions, and to determine the relationship between Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) measures and reading scores, 2,432 subjects were given the Gates MacGinitie reading test and a subsample of 818 were given the Nelson-Denny reading test. The median reading grade…

The scientist who uses the experimental form does so in order to explain that which is verified through prediction. The prerequisites for prediction include a universe that is ordered, stable, independent, and knowable. Some assumptions of the predictive argument with respect to communication research are: the operating elements of the message are…

The Toledo Chemistry Placement Examination was administered to the 163 students enrolling in general inorganic chemistry during the academic year 1967-68 in an effort to develop a way to screen enrolling students and reduce the large percentage of students doing poorly in the course. The product moment correlation between the Toledo scores and the…

An attempt is made to develop workable criteria of creativity which can be used in conjunction with a test battery and a biographical inventory to identify the creative scientist. The test battery consisted of six tests given to 143 chemical engineer seniors at the North Carolina State University between 1947 and 1951. Statistics are employed to…

Examined was the feasibility of predicting the potential for abnormal child rearing practices, including child abuse and neglect among 350 mothers. Through interviews, questionnaires, and observations during labor, delivery and the postpartum period, 100 mothers were identified as at high risk for abnormal parenting procedures. Ss were then…

This project was the result of the Navy's increasing manpower needs for high quality officers with engineering and science training and the desire to have larger numbers of midshipmen elect engineering and science majors at the Naval Academy. In order to accomplish this, a Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) was created to aid in selecting…

This study was designed to explore relationships between type and token frequencies and contextual position effects; specifically, the major question was whether or not vowel cluster pronunciation preferences of adult readers were more affected by frequency of occurrence than by graphemic environment. Two opposing hypotheses were tested regarding…

The process for the certification of teachers has changed over the years reflecting a transition in the qualifications and background required from a teacher. A common requirement in all States for vocational teachers is actual occupational employment and, in Pennsylvania, an additional requirement is the completion of the occupational competency…

Fifty-four admissions to the psychiatric unit of a general hospital were asked to predict their length of hospitalization. The difference between their predicted and actual length of hospitalization was calculated (expectancy-reality discrepancy-ERD). Patient ERD scores were compared with self-report, ward, and therapist measures of patient…

Creativity has been conceptualized as either cognitive or affective, and an analysis of research has indicated that these two approaches are incompatible. In this study, a rapprochement was attempted between two theoretical approaches using procedures recommended by Cronbach and Meehl (1955). First, a construct of creativity was formulated, then…

This study compares the effectiveness of three models of multivariate prediction for academic success in identifying the criterion variance of achievement in nursing education. The first model involves the use of an optimum set of predictors and one equation derived from a regression analysis on first semester grade average in predicting the…

Efforts toward predicting reading failure have been principally directed at assessing the child's strengths and weaknesses with reference to a limited number of reading correlates under conditions dissimilar to those in which he will be later expected to perform. Because this type of readiness model does not take into consideration a number of…

This report discusses the practical problems encountered in a longitudinal study now in its fourth year, where the focus has been the early identification of later learning disorders. The general goal was the identification of tests with the characteristics of high reliability, low cost, short time to administer, low demand on scoring…