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)

Biographical variables, available at the time of admission to a psychiatric service, were used to predict posthospital adjustment to military life. Variables which were reliable prognostic indicators included occupational specialty, number of children, wife's attitude, solitariness of work, length of service, diagnosis, and recognition for…

The premise that mental age is not a valid standard by itself for educational placement was explored. (CD)

This study represents an approach to developing a non-linear predictive system by which college applicants may be rank ordered. (IR)

Both Negro and white children depict Santa Claus as a Caucasian, although they use different colors in their drawings. This difference in the use of colors could reflect a Negro preoccupation with race or could merely be the result of different environmental influences. (CK)

Presents study which evaluated L2 performance of 15 bilingual preschool children in terms of basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS) and cognitive/academic language proficiency (CALP). Results show that several aspects of L2 proficiency by which teachers frequently evaluate students' mastery of English are poor predictors of…

Scores from a scoring system for the Bender-Gestalt and Beery's Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration for a group of 86 elementary students were correlated with Wide Range Achievement Test scores, controlling for WISC-R IQ. Results suggested that visual-motor ability may not contribute to the prediction of achievement. (Author)

Prior studies found individual differences in visual recognition memory during infancy were related to individual differences in later intelligence. This paper discusses methodological issues in the measurement of infant visual recognition, the significance of previously obtained predictive validity coefficients, and the theoretical question of…

The author deals with limitations on the use of work samples as predictors of vocational success of the disabled. The predictive model is briefly reviewed and ways in which the assumptions underlying this model can be violated or altered in vocational evaluation settings are described. (Author)