Results suggest that biodata provide a reliable set of measures to be used in the prediction of need for approval in male college freshmen. (Authors)

Describes scales measuring attitudes toward violence and determining social values. In a study of American males, attitudes toward violence are strongly related to basic values, attitudes toward others, and the language used to describe events." (Author/AL)

The KDP scale was found to be ineffective as a predictor of Ss' contacts with law enforcement agencies but of some use in predicting school social adjustment and reading achievement. (Editor)

Scale values are based on the deviation of actual college grades of a high school's graduates from those predicted on the basis of high school percentile rank and the American College Test (ACT) Composite score. (Author/DG)

Results in this study suggest that it is possible to use performance on a moderator or predictability scale to select a subgroup for whom correspondence between two predictors and the criterion is much greater than that of a subgroup whose scores on the moderator indicate a lesser degree of correspondence. (Author/ES)

Urging more research, the authors state a study of steel company supervisors and executives shows the Bernreuter Personality Inventory and demographic variables had limited usefulness in understanding or predicting managerial psychological need satisfaction." Article includes five tables and a full discussion of same. (Authors/PD)

Hostility scores, as measured by the Scrambled Sentence Test, were found to be statistically significant negative predictors of course achievement in a meteorology course at a military installation. (MS)

This paper describes a method for selecting tests to identify educational deficiencies of incoming university freshmen. On the basis of pilot study results, the Stanford High School Reading and Advanced Mathematics Computation Tests were administered to the population of incoming freshmen. Sample results closely approximated population results.…

Wolitzky's theoretical objections to the premises of a recent study by Levine are traced to some misunderstandings of the study's rationale, and to a difference in definition of the concept of constricted versus flexible control. (Author)

Describes an experimental study whose aim was to establish criteria and a method for predicting drop-outs and completions in adult education courses. (AN)

Presented and applied to a sample of 239 vocational rehabilitation clients is a discrete multivariate classification procedure for predicting vocational rehabilitation outcomes using several background characteristic combinations. Several cost-of-misclassification functions are proposed. (Author/KW)

In testing the Academic Achievement scale, no relationship was found to persistence or between entering first-year Academic Achievement scale scores and 4-year grade point average. Comparisons with a scholastic ability test were unfavorable, other results ambiguous, and caution seems indicated in using the scale. (Author)