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Show DfSEPCT NEWS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER A 23, 1976 7 Achievement tests termed weak in measuring success of adults rteHaMcCermack UPI Education Editor Achievement test scores are not the best measure of wfeat it take for success as an adult. Dr. Douglas Heath, the who psychologist made feat point at the annual of fee Educatita! Records Bureau, saidmeeting qualities feat count in fee long ran are hard to measure. The traits, according to fee professor from Eaverford College In Pesmaylvama: Intellectual curiosity, tested felddag, ability to analyse problems and learn from experience, and ability to get dong with others. Re described fee scholastic aptitude tests as cteeed systems of evaluation that are very good at predicting how third grader will do in fourth grade and how high school seniors will do as college freshmen. But what do these traditional academic measurements predict about adult success Almost nothing," he said. d, Heath speaks from an unusual perspective, busing the statements oa an analysis of success trdts in several hundred young men, first at age 17, then at 21, and, recently, at age 84. This is a small study but perhaps fee most intensive ever done, he said in an interview. The study, spanning 17 years, is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Stone Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. In the most recent follow-u- p of the original group, Heath was able to contact just 08. There were 28 Items on the assessment sheets filled out by each subject, and fee subjects wife, closest friend and one professional colleague Heath said ethical integrity, one of the items, came out far ahead of salary as an Indicator of success. Most of the persons in the group were technically competent as professionals. But and quickly changing job market and Heath said "we dare not educate too narrowly. To do so, he cautioned, risks a whole generation of frustrated, unfulfilled adults " He fears, however, feat education is riding a wave that may impair fee development of mature adults Schools, for example, are under pressure to tost for memory recall something easy to measure. High scorers on fee scholastic aptitude tests, fee psychologist figures, tend to get into fields in which they have a great likelihood of succeeding. Test scores point them In feat direction many didnt getalong in personal relations and reported they were bored and unfulfilled by their jobs Twenty permit were doctors; 20 percent, lawyers; and 29 percent had doctorates in other fields. Heath found many at age 34 realized feat interpersonal skills and vocational adaptability were more important than technical ability Those who were most successful, according to the psychologist, could express feelings and emotions, knew their own strengths and weaknesses, and had fee capacity to identify wife others. The future promises a highly competitive Alter habits to lose veight ATLANTA (UPI) Psychologist Stan Chapman says altered eating habits and nc4 short-live- d diets are fee best way to take off pounds and keep them off. Chapman, a psychologist at Georgia Regional Hospital, says diets can assist In initial weight loss but that in most i. j A a UIOWIMVV9 UIV VMCWti 0 iC gain the weight. A study project he recently completed shows that behavior modification can result in a slow, steady, weight loss without fee need to stay on a diet. We had 57 overweight ladies in our project who were 20 to 88 percent overweight," Chapman said. 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