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Gamache, LeAnn M.; Novick, Melvin R. – 1983
The existence of differential prediction of two-year grade point average is reported for gender groups within programs of study at the University of Iowa. Academic records of all freshmen entering the University in 1978 in the fields of Business, Liberal Arts, Pre-Medicine, and those undecided as to major were analyzed with respect to American…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Grade Point Average, Higher Education
Deimling, Gary T.; Harel Zev – 1983
Social support has been found to be positively related to well being in elderly individuals. To examine the effects of social integration (social resources, social interaction, and perceived adequacy of resources), and health, age, marital status, and socioeconomic status (SES) on mental health among urban elderly individuals, 1,727 persons from…
Descriptors: Age, Attitudes, Interpersonal Relationship, Marital Status
Benor, Dan E.; Hobfoll, Stevan E. – 1983
Prediction of clinical performance of medical students in the clerkship phase was made possible in the earliest phase of medical education by a comprehensive and integrative evaluation instrument entitled "Integrative Examination" (INTEX). A proportional sample of the content learned throughout the year is integrated for measuring…
Descriptors: Adults, Clinical Experience, Cognitive Ability, Evaluation Methods
Ciferri, William B.; Bressler, Dawn – 1982
Social and health service utilization have been the subject of numerous studies, but most have examined service utilization from the perspective of the type of service delivered to older adults. To determine the factors that predict overall utilization of services, data that had been collected in 1975 for the General Accounting Offices' survey of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Delivery Systems, Gerontology, Health Services
Epstein, Joyce L. – 1983
Previous research on friendship selection has failed to focus on how the selection process changes with age or in differently organized environments. This review of the literature takes a life-course perspective on the selection of friends, charting research results on three aspects of the selection process: (1) the number of friends and their…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Environment, Friendship, Individual Characteristics
Dillon, Ronna F. – 1983
Current pscyhometric assessments, which are based on test score predictors providing information only on products of performance, fail to account for satisfactory amounts of variance in academic achievement or other criterion measures of interest. To corroborate and extend previous work on information processing measures, by examining the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Evaluation Methods
Walker-Bartnick, Leslie; And Others – 1983
An actuarial model applied to the selection process of a special medical school program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine was tested. The 77 students in the study sample were admitted to the university's Fifth Pathway Program, which is designed for U.S. citizens who completed their medical school training, except for internship and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Foreign Medical Graduates
Suskie, Linda Michaels; Shearer, Sharon – 1983
Linear regression models that predict faculty salaries from professional and affirmative action variables were developed to validate promotion and merit criteria, set a starting salary scale, and identify possible systematic and individual salary inequities. All 377 full-time teaching faculty and librarians (309 men and 68 women) employed by a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Evaluation Criteria, Faculty Evaluation, Faculty Promotion
Cohen, Margaret E. – 1983
A university's use of the Automatic Interaction Detector (AID) to monitor faculty salary data is described. The first step consists of examining a tree diagram and summary table produced by AID. The tree is used to identify the characteristics of faculty at different salary levels. The table is used to determine the explanatory power of the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Data Analysis, Employment Practices, Evaluation Methods
Gunther, Vicki – 1980
This study investigated whether there were significant differences in the acquisition of oral language and reading skills among limited-English-speaking, Hispanic elementary school students receiving instruction through three different bilingual reading approaches, and what other variables might be important. The three reading approaches were: (1)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Education, Limited English Speaking, Native Language Instruction
Porter, Robin – 1982
Multivariate sets of predictor variables including both cognitive and social variables, different types of preschool experiences, and family environment variables were used to predict the first-grade reading achievement of 144 first-grade boys and girls. Measures for the predictor variables had been taken at school entry and at the end of the…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Elementary School Students, Family Environment, Grade 1
Hess, Harrie F. – 1983
Height is one important variable among many in the elicitation of the submissive response. In addition to overt behavioral components, the submissive response involves a cognitive component, in which oneself is perceived as smaller and weaker, and an affective component, consisting of a feeling of intimidation by the other. Submission is a…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Body Height, Individual Differences, Individual Power
Ogle, Laurence T., Ed.; Alsalam, Nabeel, Ed. – 1990
This is the first of two volumes of the National Center for Education Statistics' annual statistical report on the condition of education in the United States for 1990. This volume addresses elementary and secondary education, while the second volume covers postsecondary education (PE). Condition of education indicators (CEIs)--key data that…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Educational Quality, Educational Trends, Elementary School Students
Webster, Linda; Larson, Larry – 1989
This document reports on the design and development of a comprehensive longitudinal monitoring system that allows for the identification of at-risk students and the evaluation of district programs and services by one high school and five elementary school districts in California and the School of Education at San Jose State University. The goal of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Longitudinal Studies
Levin, James; Wyckoff, John – 1990
This study developed predictive models on persistence and success in engineering at the end of the sophomore year by examining 11 intellective and 9 non-intellective variables. The project's long-term purpose was to contribute to the improvement of academic advising for students considering engineering majors and thus improve student retention.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, College Bound Students
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