Student-reported grades as predictors

Student-reported past grades were compared with school-reported grades as to their usefulness in predicting success in mathematics courses. Student-reported grades were as valid as school-reported grades in predicting criteria of algebra success but were slightly less valid in predicting criteria of geometry success. It is concluded that for the purposes described here, student-reported grades may be used.     

ATTITUDES TOWARD A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM: A COMPARISON OF ANGLOPHONE AND FRANCOPHONE HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES

The purpose of this study was to explore the hypothesis that the French and English Canadians, due to their unique cultural backgrounds, differ in their perceptions of and satisfaction with the nature of the organizational communication system under which they operate. The study was conducted in a large community general hospital. A total of 977 or 65.9 percent of the employees (of the 1,483 employees asked to complete the questionnaire) responded. The study revealed that Anglophcne employees consistently showed lower levels of satisfaction then the Francophone employees with the various aspects of the communication system that were investigated in this study. It was suggested that consistency of response to communications perhaps stems from the differing cultural values of the two groups of employees. Implications of these results were discussed.     

Nudging the Responsibility Objection

abstract   The 'Responsibility Objection' to Judith Thomson's famous argument for the permissibility of abortion challenges the relevance of her 'Violinist Analogy' to certain types of voluntary unwanted pregnancy, on the grounds that those pregnancies, even though they may be unwanted, are pregnancies for which the woman can be plausibly held responsible. This article considers the force of a number of recent objections to the Responsibility Objection, advanced by Harry Silverstein, David Boonin, and Jeff McMahan, and judges them to be unpersuasive. It is concluded that, in the absence of further considerations, the Responsibility Objection carries force.