Medical school students were tested on ethical reasoning to see if a correlation existed between high scores in such reasoning and the medical school admission process. No correlation was found. More work should be done on the philosophical issue of whether ethical thinking should be addressed in medical school admissions. (Author/IS)

The American Occupational Therapy Association's certification instruments failed to show any ability to predict future job performance and job satisfaction of occupational therapists. (GW)

A natural experiment dramatically reveals that scores on a difficult standardized mathematics aptitude test predicts achievement in mathematics over a 2 or 3-year period considerably better than the judgment of the students' present mathematics teacher. (Author/AM)

Research was undertaken to design an instrument that could identify schools prone to the occurrence of violence. A secondary purpose was to identify signs that might indicate that violence was a likely occurrence. The instrument had five factors that described where bullying occurred; the types and reasons for bullying; how students were treated;…

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

An examination of the contribution of pupils' ethnic group membership to the prediction of scholastic achievement by means of a battery of diverse psychological tests and background information in a large sample of children from three ethnic troups in a California school district is reported. (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)

In a search for predictors of clinical competence, 50 third-year medical students studying pediatrics were videotaped during their interview and physical examination of outpatients. Consideration should be given to the possible value of psychological tests as predictors of clinical competence. (Author)

Studied the effectiveness of using student's scores gained in previous courses or examinations as predictor of his further study. Concluded that determination of cut-off values on the Toledo Chemistry Placement Examination was not favored while a specific prerequisite chemistry course was proved capable of predicting student's success. (CC)

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

Internals, but not externals, used time in a manner systematically related to item difficulty. These differences in time utilization may explain why the sense of control variable, although unrelated to ability, is a predictor of achievement test scores. (Authors/CB)

The inter-battery factor analysis model for predictive systems appears to offer a useful formalization of these systems and provides some guides for the development of the system. (Author)

In a search for an adequate but efficient substitute, the authors have instituted three evaluations of the relationships between potential WAIS-substitutes and the WAIS itself. The present report describes the first of these researches-- a study of the relationships between the four group ability tests and the WAIS in a mental hospital setting.…

The use of undergraduate grade point averages and Quantitative Graduate Record Examination as predictors of economics graduate grade point averages was improved by introducing a School Quality Index," yielding multiple correlation coefficients of up to .50. (IM)