This article describes the formulation and execution of the Rainbow Project, Phase I, funded by the College Board. Past data suggest that the SAT is a good predictor of performance in college. But in terms of the amount of variance explained by the SAT, there is room for improvement, as there would be for virtually any single test battery. Phase I…

Although academic ability is the most important explanatory variable in studies of student learning, researchers control for it with a wide array and combinations of proxies. The authors investigated how the proxy choice affects estimates of undergraduate student learning by testing over 150 specifications of a single model, each including a…

The present research investigated the relations among the measured and the expressed career decision-making difficulties in a sample of 299 young adults who intended to apply to college or university. As hypothesised, the correlations between career decision-making difficulties, as measured by the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire…

Medicine is a profession with a long history of research and high standards of methodological rigour and evidence-based decision making. These standards are being transferred into medical education. Universities are starting to collect high-quality data on their admissions systems. This has not been a short-term proposition. Medical courses are…

The newly revamped Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) was administered for the first time in March 2005. Administrators, faculty, and staff in colleges and universities throughout the country were asking the same questions as students: "What was this new score of 2400 and what would it mean for them in terms of admissions, scholarships, and…

Using a computer assisted learning task, subjects were assigned to an example-only, objective-example, rule-example, or objective-rule-example treatment. The subjects were required to meet minimum criterion performance at each level of the task. The findings discuss the use of objectives, rules, and examples on student performance. (Author/SE)

Recently there appears to have been an increase in interest in the relative power of general ability and narrower cognitive aptitudes to predict real world performance in training programs and on the job. This area has important practical implications for personnel selection and classification, particularly for large organizations such as the…

This study tested the hypothesis that measured aptitudes and self-ratings of these same aptitudes reflect a common domain of psychometric behavior. Male and female applicants for vocational guidance completed a self-rating scale and then the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB). The self-rating scale contained six vocational/educational aptitudes.…

Paper presented at the International Seminar on Experimental Research in Music Education (University of Reading, Reading, England, July 9-16, 1968).

Paper presented at the International Seminar on Experimental Research in Music Education (University of Reading, Reading, England, July 9-16, 1968).

The average Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude Test scores of test-takers who had their scores sent to 57 history and 60 chemistry departments in 1972-73 ("scores senders") are compared with the average Aptitude Test scores of first-year students who enrolled in these departments in the fall of 1973 ("enrolled…

AS PREDICTIVE TESTS HAVE BECOME MORE COMMON AND AS THEIR VALIDITY HAS INCREASED, RELEVANT QUESTIONS HAVE SHIFTED FROM WHETHER WE SHOULD TEST TO WHEN, HOW MUCH, OR WHY WE SHOULD TEST. A FIRST ISSUE IN THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF PREDICTIVE TESTING IS THE RIGHT OF THE SOCIETY TO REQUIRE ITS MEMBERS TO REVEAL INFORMATION ABOUT THEMSELVES, EVEN THOUGH SUCH…

The objective of this study was to determine if the Annehurst Curriculum Classification System (ACCS) learner characteristics and curriculum materials classifications among elementary mathematics students, can be used as the dimensions of an aptitude-treatment interaction analysis. The subjects were 34 fourth and fifth graders in three open-space…

Describes a reading course designed to increase efficiency and concentration on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. (MKM)

What effect is the "back to basics" movement having on American teachers and schools? Are the media and the politicians taking the public for a ride? Reports on the controversies surrounding such issues as standards, testing and accountability. (Editor)