The longitudinal study was Phase 2 of a study designed to determine the relationship between selection techniques (used by the State of Colorado Civil Service Commission and the Career Service Authority of the city and county of Denver) and on-the-job performance in specified job classifications for personnel classified as (1) Negro, (2)…

This paper deals with the broad area of status attainment, attempting to restructure the concept of anticipatory goal deflection (AGD) (distinction between career expectations and aspirations; Kuvlesky and Bealer, 1966) "so as to optimize its integration into a theoretical structure based on sociological and social psychological research and…

Critical incidents were used to collect faculty ratings of graduate student performance in the departments of chemistry, English, and psychology. Separate factor analyses in each of three fields produced eight factors that were fairly consistent with respect to item loadings across fields. Factors were labeled independence and initiative,…

Community education is an eclectic philosophy which combines many desirable features of educational movements of the past and present. In the United States, its evolution occurred in those periods of educational history when forces favoring a close relationship between the community and school were dominant. Periods of rapid development of…

This study looked at Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) scores by race in relation to medical college status. It was found that promoted students differed significantly on all four MCAT subtests from those dismissed for academic difficulties and those repeating a year. For both black and white racial groups, the latter two status categories…

The U. S. Agency for International Development (AID) contracted with the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) to provide professional consultant services and academic credential analysts to improve the selection and admission of AID-sponsored participants (foreign students) for study in U. S. academic…

The purposes of this study were: to identify factors differentiating self-employed retail managers who started their business from those who bought their business; to identify factors differentiating self-employed retail managers from all retail managers; and to develop a supply function to predict the number of self-employed from the total…

This study was undertaken to provide an analysis of the reactions of students toward a cooperative work experience education program 26 to 40 years later. Major emphasis was placed on topics such as vocational choice, getting and holding a job, human relations, citizenship education, related instruction, education beyond high school, jobs held…

Current manpower policies have been characterized as experimentation with ideology, methods and programs aimed at providing an optimum solution to the unemployment dilemma of the disadvantaged. A proliferation of programs and a lack of long-range planning has been inherent during the 1960's. The report notes, however, that although a suitable…

In this working paper of the National Seminar on the Diffusion of New Instructional Materials and Practices individual conference participants answer this question: What are the characteristics of educational products that make them more or less likely to be diffused? Responses focus on considerations related to size of the product, cost,…

Distributions were accomplished to demonstrate the relationships between age, educational level, and Armed Forces Qualification Test scores of the 1965 airman accessions and their reenlistment desirability at the completion of their initial tour. The largest percentage of undesirable enlistees was found in the high school non-graduate, Category 4,…

The Children's Perceived Powerfulness Scale (CPPS) was administered to 1200 suburban elementary grade school children. At each of four grade levels, three classes were designated as High Powerful (HP) and three as Low Powerful (LP). Results indicate that children in HP classes were viewed more favorably by their teachers, obtained higher scores on…

A study was conducted to determine whether six personality variables, presently used in admissions decisions by a nursing school, were effective predictors of success on the State Board Examination (SBE), the nursing licensing examination. The personality variables were measured by subtests of the Personal Preference Schedule of the Psychological…

The relationship of achievement-related motivational variables and subjective probability of success to curricular choice in college males was studied. When the fear of failure was greater than the need for achievement, Ss chose majors with either a low or high probability of success, regardless of how probability of success was judged. When need…

Although there is general agreement upon a number of factors that contribute to early school success, the extent to which the student population has changed since the inception of most curricula and teaching methods has created some unique problems. This paper describes the Manzo-Meeks-Eanet Difference Inventory, which was devised to measure the…