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Padbury, Peter; Wilkins, Diane – 1972
This bibliography was prepared for a series of courses offered by the Department of Man-Environment Studies at the University of Waterloo. It contains references both to forecasting techniques and to some of the issues likely to be important over the next few decades. Each reference has been put under a broad general category. An asterisk…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Environmental Education, Environmental Research, Futures (of Society)
Robbins, Jerry H. – 1975
This paper summarizes studies conducted to predict various educational outputs or other measures of quality from measures of student and community input and educational processes, groups the studies by the type of output measure used, and searches for trends in the results. The data are arranged in five columns in an extensive chart. The first…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Quality, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Norris, Donald M.; And Others – 1977
Manpower information and projections in postsecondary education have present value in the sense that they guide today's decisions based on a view of what tomorrow's world will be like. But manpower decisions are complicated by the fact that the decision-maker, be it a government, an institution, or an individual, must also take account of how…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Information Sources
Barnard, Kathryn E., Ed.; Douglas, Helen Bee, Ed. – 1974
Presented are 13 papers describing the Seattle Project and reviewing the literature relevant to the project's purpose of developing and testing an assessment format to enable nurses to better identify health and developmental problems in children. Six papers pertaining to predictor variables cover the areas of prenatal and perinatal factors,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Disabilities, Etiology, Evaluation Methods