This research explored the validation of a quantifiable, objective, and reliable method of measuring the amount of effort to be directly rewarded in incentive systems. A battery of relevant ability tests was given to a sample of Air Force trainees and to civilian subjects using a simulation of the course taught the Air Force trainees. Results…

Many factors influence the grades students earn. Without the intervention of institutional forces, it is reasonable to suspect that the mean semester index of successful students will remain constant with the passage of time. If, on the other hand, institutional variables exist that influence grading standards, then it is reasonable to suspect…

The problem investigated in this study was to determine the best combination of tests or subtests in a research battery which, when administered to beginning first-grade students, would enable the most efficient prediction of reading achievement. A total of 1052 children were randomly selected from first-grade classrooms within the State of…

Models proposed by Cleary, Thorndike, Cole, Linn, Einhorn and Bass, Darlington, and Gross and Su for analyzing bias in the use of tests in a selection strategy are surveyed. Several additional models are also introduced. The purpose is to describe, compare, contrast, and evaluate these models while extracting such useful ideas as may be found in…

A primary objective of this research was the development of predictors of academic performance and satisfaction for aeronautical engineering students. Three basic types of data used to develop predictors were biographical (historical), academic aptitude (graduate record exam), and individual interests (Strong Vocational Interest Blank) data.…

This study involved a comparison of first and second grade students' performance on the Piagetian Task Administration Instrument (PTAI), the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT), and the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT) with actual reading achievement measured by placement on the Indiviudally Paced Instruction (IPI) Tracking Card in Reading, which was…

This study investigated the feasibility of using only the McCracken Word List (MWL), a subtest of the Standard Reading Inventory (SRI), rather than the entire SRI to determine functional grade placement in reading. The MWL is one of the few word lists with well-documented reliability and validity. In addition, the MWL has been shown to be highly…

A follow-up study of 42 school-age children related school-age reading, reading readiness, and listening and speaking skills with early psycholinguistic ability. The children were given measures of vocabulary, sentence imitation, comprehension and production, phoneme discrimination, IQ, and word inflection skill at age three. In addition, the…

In a rapidly changing technological society, appropriate choice of occupation becomes increasingly important to the individual as well as to the employer. In this study, the effectiveness of a set of weights, established by the chi-square technique, for distinguishing among similar and dissimilar occupations was compared with the weighting scheme…

The current study was conducted to evaluate the academic performance of black students at the University of Missouri-Columbia as compared to a matched group of white students at the same institution. Predictors of academic success currently in use were investigated to see if they showed approximately the same validity for both black students and…

A 4-year United States Office of Education prekindergarten-kindergarten series of research studies has provided data useful in predicting school success. The present study compares test scores of the Complete Assessment Battery administered before the children entered kindergarten with scores of the same children on the Metropolitan Readiness…

This study sought to ascertain the effect on student behavior of two approaches to visual information transmission. These approaches involved varying the sequence of messages transmitted through the visual communications channel and varying the redundancy of messages presented through this channel. The investigation was conducted as a four-group…

There are so many methods and approaches to teaching that it is sometimes difficult to choose the approach best suited to the needs of the students. This study sought to ascertain the relative effectiveness and efficiency of selected approaches to the demonstration of complex manipulative sequences, and to test the theory that students of high…

Formulae for discriminant functions were developed to permit future student users of the Washington Pre-College test battery to determine their similarity to successful University students graduating in 6 major areas - humanities, physical science, social science, business, biological science, and engineering. The sample studied consisted on 1,392…

This study was an investigation into the relative predictive abilities of two types of test anxiety measures. Galvanic skin response (GSR) levels obtained during achievement testing and a self-report measure of test anxiety, the Test Anxiety Scale for Children (TASC), were used as predictors of IQ and achievement test performances of 119 fifth and…