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Blake, Larry J. – 1981
After asserting that public institutions should not provide training for nonexistent jobs, this paper reviews problems associated with the accurate prediction of future manpower needs. The paper reviews the processes currently used to project labor force needs and notes the difficulty of accurately forecasting labor market "surprises,"…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Employment Statistics
Campbell, Stephen N.; Henry, Rolando – 1981
The relationship of boys' and girls' level of aspiration (LOA), achievement motivation, manifest anxiety, and intelligence to persistence behavior was explored in this study. Forty boys and 40 girls (ages 11-13) from two Catholic schools participated in this study. To measure subjects' persistence and LOA, subjects were given 5 sets of puzzle…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Anxiety, Aspiration, Catholic Schools
Download full textHengstler, Dennis D.; And Others – 1981
The relationship between personality characteristics and academic success of college freshmen at a predominantly female campus was studied, using the Myers-Briggs Type indicator (MBTI) to measure personality and first-year grade point average to measure academic success. The comparative effectiveness of the MBTI and the traditional predictors…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Grade Point Average, Higher Education
de Wolf, Virginia A. – 1978
The predictive validity of the equation used for determining entrance into the University of Washington's freshman class during the 1978-79 academic year is examined. The sample was comprised of all freshmen entering the university directly from high school in autumn quarter 1974 who had been tested through the Washington Pre-College Test Battery…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Freshmen, Grade Point Average
Flynn, Timothy M. – 1975
The predictive validity of the Slosson Intelligence Test, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test, Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration, and the Metropolitan Readiness Test was evaluated for use with kindergarten children. The criterion measure was the California Achievement Tests administered when the children…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Intelligence Tests
PDF pending restorationHaertel, Geneva D.; And Others – 1979
Student perceptions of their classroom environment correlated consistently with end-of-course cognitive, affective, and behavioral learning outcomes, with or without statistical controls for ability, pretests, or both measures. Twelve classroom observation studies, kindergarten to grade 12, that reported simple, partial, and part correlations…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education
Wolf, John C. – 1980
The predictive value of the high-school-level battery of the tests of General Educational Development (GED) for two-year college academic performance was investigated. GED tests scores were examined to determine if they could substitute for a complete high school record as a source of predictor data. Student record data from a registrar's office…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Grade Equivalent Scores, Grade Point Average, Predictive Measurement
FLANAGAN, JOHN C. – 1959
A SURVEY, KNOWN AS PROJECT TALENT, IS TO BE A SERIES OF EXAMINATIONS ADMINISTERED TO 500,000 STUDENTS IN 1,000 SAMPLE SCHOOLS. IT AIMS AT MEASURING THE STUDENT'S PRESENT KNOWLEDGE AND HIS POTENTIAL APTITUDES AND ABILITIES. THE RESULTS OF THIS 1960 CENSUS WILL BE SCORED, ANALYZED, AND EVALUATED BY SPECIAL ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT. THE PROJECT IS BEING…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Advisory Committees, Aptitude Tests, Career Choice
STERN, GEORGE G.; AND OTHERS – 1958
DATA WERE GATHERED ON THE UNCONSCIOUS MOTIVES OR PURPOSES IN THE CHOICE OF TEACHING AS A CAREER. THEY WERE USED AS A MEASURE IN PREDICTING POTENTIAL AND INDIVIDUAL TEACHING SUCCESS IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. SKETCHES OF MOTIVATIONAL TYPES ENCOUNTERED AMONG TEACHERS WERE DEVELOPED AND SAMPLED AMONG REPRESENTATIVE INDIVIDUALS OF EACH TYPE. THE…
Descriptors: Careers, Elementary School Teachers, Factor Analysis, Individual Psychology
GORDON, IRA J.; SPEARS, WILLIAM D. – 1962
THE PURPOSE WAS TO SUBSTANTIATE THE HYPOTHESIS THAT TRAINING COLLEGE STUDENTS IN SELF-PERCEPTUAL THEORY, IN OBSERVING CHILD BEHAVIOR, AND IN ANALYZING BEHAVIOR FROM A PERCEPTUAL ORIENTATION INCREASES THEIR ABILITY TO INFER FROM THE BEHAVIOR RECORDS OF A CHILD HIS STATEMENTS ABOUT HIMSELF. THREE GROUPS OF SUBJECTS, ONE EXPERIMENTAL AND TWO…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Instruction, Individual Differences, Interpersonal Relationship
MEDLEY, DONALD M. – 1967
AT PRESENT, THE PART OF ANY TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS CRITERION THAT CAN BE PREDICTED WITH A SELECTION TEST IS PROBABLY IRRELEVANT TO TEACHER COMPETENCE. TESTING THE VALIDITY OF PREDICTORS OF TEACHER COMPETENCE IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE IT WOULD REQUIRE HIRING A SIZABLE RANDOM SAMPLE OF ALL WHO APPLY FOR POSITIONS, WITHOUT PRIOR SCREENING. FURTHER,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Prediction, Predictive Measurement
DROEGE, ROBERT C. – 1967
THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED BY THE UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE TO EXAMINE ONE ASPECT OF THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF APTITUDES, JOB PERFORMANCE, AND AGE -- SPECIFICALLY, TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE VALIDITY OF UNADJUSTED AND AGE-ADJUSTED GENERAL APTITUDE TEST BATTERY (GATB) APTITUDE SCORES FOR PREDICTING OCCUPATIONAL SUCCESS. ELEVEN LONGITUDINAL…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aptitude Tests, Comparative Testing, Job Performance
CURRY, JOHN – 1967
IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE FEASIBILITY OF A CUT-OFF SCORE FOR ENTRANCE INTO TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS AT NORTH TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY, SCORES OF 1,346 STUDENTS WHO EITHER PLACED ABOVE THE 80TH PERCENTILE (N-672) OR BELOW THE 20TH PERCENTILE (N-674) ON EITHER THE SCHOOL AND COLLEGE ABILITY TEST OR THE WATSON-GLASER TEST OF CRITICAL THINKING WERE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Education Majors, Grades (Scholastic)
TEMPLIN, 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
GOLD, BENJAMIN K. – 1966
DATA ON 58 REMEDIAL ENGLISH 21 AND 128 ENGLISH 1 STUDENTS WERE FURNISHED BY THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE. TABLES WERE CONSTRUCTED INDICATING SCHOOL AND COLLEGE APTITUDE TEST SCORES (SCAT), AND PERFORMANCE IN ANY PREVIOUS COMMUNICATION CLASSES FOR THESE STUDENTS. COMPARISONS ARE MADE AND DIFFERENCES CHARTED BETWEEN THE ENGLISH…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, English, English Curriculum
