The developing relation between children's knowledge about the goals and processes of reading, their skills to apply metacognitive strategies, and reading comprehension was examined. Participants were children in third-, fifth-, and eighth-grades in two primary schools in Rijeka, Croatia. All students were Croatian-speaking. A questionnaire of…

The purpose of this study is to examine how personal offensiveness to, and perceived harmfulness of, violent and sexual film content relates to the setting of minimum age limits for viewing movies containing examples of each. Using third-person effect as a theoretical framework, a 2x2 experiment was conducted. Subjects, undergraduate students in…

The intent of this study was to identify predictor variables for pass/fail status on the Elementary Professional Development Examination for Certification of Educators in Texas (ExCET) for preservice teachers at a university in South Texas. Logistic regression was used to investigate the dependency between the predictors and the ExCET pass/fail…

The purpose of this study was to determine the combination of criteria that would accurately predict the success of at-risk master's level students in graduate education. Academic records of 918 graduate students who were classified as at risk (i.e., did not meet minimum admission requirements but were given an opportunity to take classes to show…

Assesses the effectiveness of a factored biographical inventory in predicting freshman GPAs, and suggests that biodata be considered in college selection. (Author/JN)

(See also TM 501 087, TM 501 089 and TM 501 090.)

Realizing the need to select success crtieria for use in a longitudinal vocational development study, the authors developed a model which depicted the relationships between several available success criteria. Hopefully, these hypothetical relationships would act as a framework for further research. (DS)

The present study is an attempt to explore the usefulness of demographic predictors of writing ability. Specifically, it is concerned with delineating the elements involved in writing and to ascertain the effects of achievement, language background, age, sex, social class, etc., on linguistic ability. (Author/RK)

Two admissions models are developed to predict future academic performance of graduate management students. The corrected model, using data obtained from the entire applicant group instead of just those admitted, demonstrated higher predictive ability. (Author/KM)

The Structure-of-Intellect Tests are shown to represent promising alternatives to the traditional commercial standardized tests now widely used in predicting success in modern algebra. (Author/NE)

Purpose of this study was to examine the nature of correlations among tasks purporting to measure communicative, cognitive, role-taking, and spatial egocentrism in childhood. (Author/CB)

The present study represents an attempt to identify the qualities perceived to be important for male and female applicants for the same job. (Author)

Measures of student adjustment constituted the strongest predictor of language achievement. (Authors)

Analytic intelligence was a good predictor of communication scores for boys but not for girls. Verbal ability was no better a predictor for girls than boys. The correlational evidence indicates that conventional intelligence tests predict social perspective taking as well as Piaget's measure of spatial perspective-taking ability. (Authors)

Over a one-semester-period, the relative level of marking seems to have little impact on motivation or achievement for most students. It may be that the internalized perceptions of achievement level are more significant determinors of student behavior than teacher assigned marks. (Authors)