The difficulty of predicting grade point average is discussed. The article suggests that recent literature on the problem overlooks some methodological difficulties. A brief discussion about the appropriateness of using course grades as criteria for selection is also presented. (Author/JKS)

Two related experiments were designed to investigate the reinforcement potency of children's reading materials. After determining the preferences of third graders for various reading materials, listening to recorded tapes of these materials was used as a reward for correct responses on reading exercises. Significant differences among materials…

Fourth and seventh grade reflective, impulsive, fast/accurate, and slow/inaccurate subjects were asked to paraphrase the meaning of ambiguous sentences and then to indicate their meaning through the selection of pictures. Results indicated that reflective children were more successful in some settings than impulsive or slow/inaccurate children.…

A field experiment in peer tutoring was conducted with college students to test a theoretical model that attached greater desirability to be the tutor than the tutee and to be in an equitable (status congruent) rather than inequitable relationship. Results supported the model. (Author/JKS)

White and black fifth grade children, representing two levels of self-concept and social class, recalled nouns which they had prerated for likability. High self-concept white children recalled positively rated words more readily than negatively rated words, while high self-concept black children recalled negative words more readily than positive…

Attitudinal responses of elementary teachers to various characteristics of elementary pupils were examined. Results indicate pupils' personality characteristics most strongly influence teachers' attitudes of attachment and rejection, academic ability influences teachers' attitudes of concern, and academic ability and personality characteristics…

This experiment studied whether socioeconomic status indicators sufficiently represent those aspects of the home environment relevant to IQ. Home environment ratings for samples of ninth grade black and white middle class females were compared to the subjects' scores on an IQ measure, an achievement measure, and grade point average. (Author/JKS)

Student evaluations of faculty teaching performance at the undergraduate level were examined in an experiment which used anonymous and nonanonymous settings as one factor and the professor being rated as a second factor. Both main effects were significant with marginal significance for the interaction. (JKS)

Third and fourth grade boys classified as impulsive, reflective, fast/accurate and slow/inaccurate responded to matching tasks varying in the number of dimensions involved. Reflective children performed better on the task with fewer dimensions, while impulsive children were better on the task with many dimensions. (JKS)

To study the notion of stage processing independence in reading, measures of the decoding process and semantic processing were obtained on a sample of elementary pupils. Performance on these measures was related to lexical accessibility, letter properties and the familiarity of the words used in the measures. (Author/JKS)

Methods of mapping cognitive structure were compared. Free and controlled word association tests and a tree-construction test were administered to graduate students. Very similar patterns of relations among words and graphic representations of these structures were produced. No agreement among the individual measures of concept interconnectedness…

Many errors in the selection of college students are inversely related to the validity of the predictors employed. The generally weak validity with which grade point average (GPA) has been predicted may be a criterion problem rather than a predictor problem. GPA prediction is inferior to single-class grade prediction. (BJG)

Processing requirements in letter discrimination for beginning readers with reflective-impulsive and field-dependent--field-independent learning styles were investigated. Results were interpreted in terms of feature analyses employed in letter identification and discrimination. (BJG)

Results indicate that race is an important determinant of white children's social responses to a female adult stranger. For every type of behavior there was a significant race effect on at least one of the indices used to measure it. But the presence or absence of physical handicap did not itself influence subjects' responses. (Author/RC)

The prediction that utilization of contextual information will be reduced by the presentation of secondary tasks requiring attention was studied. The importance of a limited-capacity operational memory for reading performance was discussed. (BJG)