Word: predictabilities
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...think the probability of the proposal passing is very good but we can’t predict the future,” said Lars Viberg, a member of the Union and president of the Swedenborg Chapel church council...
...think if we can predict enrollment without a system of preregistration, that would seem a promising solution without doing away with shopping period—and that is what students are concerned about,” O’Keefe said...
...insistence, the goal of influencing school curriculums has become the overriding preoccupation of the new test's developers. Caperton speaks with less enthusiasm about the traditional mission of the SAT: to help colleges predict how well applicants will do if they are admitted. To be sure, Caperton believes the notion (actually, he's staking his career on it) that the SAT can both improve high schools and still remain useful to colleges as a predictor. But the first goal is a political aim; the second, a psychometric one. And Caperton has surrounded the New SAT with dozens of educators...
Those who took the test in its early phase were volunteers rather than a random sample of undergraduates. But the preliminary results, which Sternberg presented in August at an APA conference, were dramatic. The Rainbow Project was nearly twice as successful at predicting students' first-year college GPAs as their SAT scores had been. The College Board, which produces the SATs, is funding Sternberg's research because the ability to predict college performance from a test--any test--hasn't improved much in 50 years, says Wayne Camara, the board's vice president of research...
Harvard coach Tim Murphy’s defensive philosophy is to make the other team play “left-handed”—to shut down an opponent’s strength, which is almost always the running game, and to force passes the secondary can predict. Against Princeton, the Crimson defense knew what was coming, but until the first overtime possession, stopping it was a different matter altogether...