In response to research questioning the utility of the Jesness Inventory in predicting and differentiating delinquency, this study isolated the personality dimensions of 422 adjudicated, noninstitutionalized adolescents by item level factor analysis. The resulting three factors--Mistrust, Social Pessimism, and Hypersensitivity--were compared with…

Examined the reliability, construct validity, and predictive validity of the Non-Cognitive Questionnaire (NCQ) for different racial groups, using a sample of 1,975 Black and White college students. Results showed the NCQ significantly predicted persistence for Black students and predicted grades for both groups. (JAC)

Findings from the first year of a project to investigate the relationship of pre-admissions data with academic performance are presented. Undergraduate performance and VAT scores seemed to be consistently related to the grade point average indices. (Author/LBH)

This study examines the role of Advanced Placement (AP) and other honors-level courses as a criterion for admission at a leading public university, the University of California, and finds that the number of AP and honors courses taken in high school bears little or no relationship to students' later performance in college. AP is increasingly…

Today's students experience a great deal of pressure to succeed in school. Since predictors of academic performance are widely used to assess student capabilities, the relationship between one such test, the California Psychological Inventory (CPI), and academic success are examined in this paper. The focus here is on the non-cognitive variables…

Twelve educators were asked to predict the effectiveness of seven self-instructional arrangements of anthropological information from simple inspection of the programs. (Author)

A study by Rothkopf is frequently cited as showing that educational experts are poor judges of the actual effectiveness of instructional materials. The study is replicated and comments from Ss are used to show that half-trained student experts tend to judge simple materials as more effective than complex materials. (Author)

In order to be effective, companies must use every meaningful approach to find individuals with high potential who might otherwise be overlooked in the complex organizational structure. In an effort to be more efficient, industrial firms and governmental agencies utilized multiple assessment procedures to identify and develop managerial personnel.…

This study represents an attempt to construct and collect preliminary validity data for a children's interpersonal trust scale. (Author)

This study's main purpose was to determine whether or not standard predictors of college success'' might perform more satisfactorily than usual if a 2-valued criterion based on dropouts was employed. (Author)

Discusses problems of early childhood program evaluation based on curricula variations, critiques of achievement and intelligence testing, analysis of predictive validity and the relationship between home and school environments. Identifies new directions for evaluation in each of these areas. (DP)

Several areas of controversy between Soviet pyschologists and their Western colleagues concerning the usefulness of tests for measurement of mental ability are noted in this article. The author outlines test procedures suggested by Russian psychologist, Lev Vygotsky. (SM)

Social Studies was the best predictor in the two-year colleges whereas Literature was the most predictive of success in the four-year colleges. (Author)