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EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT 1968, 28, 457-463. IT was serendipitously possible to secure fifth grade achievement results on the same battery for 57 children who when in kindergarten had been subjects in a structure-of-intellect investigation. Thus a study of prediction across four and one half years was possible. It was the purpose of this report to show the value of certain kindergarten examinations and test behavior ratings for anticipating fifth grade achievement, with emphasis upon efficient selection of tests and ratings showing up best in stepwise regression procedures. This purpose was executed for scores on the six separate subtests of the achievement battery, for total achievement test scores, and for group IQ's.Subjects and instruments. Since characteristics of the sample of 100 children were described in a previous publication (Meyers, Orpet, Attwell, and Dingman, 1962), it is only necessary to describe them generally here: white, mostly upper lower and lower middle class, from a residential community in the greater Los

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