Scores on tests in 8 areas of scholastic achievement were “predicted” by multiple regression from 7 nonscholastic tests of ability, a personality inventory, and items of personal background data in some six thousand white, Negro, and Mexican-American California school children in Grades 1 to 8. Averaged over Grades, the multiple correlation (R) between the predictor variables and achievement scores ranged from .60 to .80 for various school subjects. Ethnicity made no significant contribution to the multiple R independently of the several predictor variables.
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