The development of a predictive equation capable of explaining a significant percentage of enrollment variability at Florida International University is described. A model utilizing trend analysis and a multiple regression approach to enrollment forecasting was adapted to investigate enrollment dynamics at the university. Four independent…

Data from personal interviews with 268 black adults living in predominantly black neighborhoods of San Francisco, California, were used to examine the relationships among political participation, media exposure, and various individual characteristics. Results showed that reading general news magazines had the strongest interaction with the three…

The study assessed young adults' attitudes toward childlessness and identified certain factors which predict positive or negative attitudes toward childlessness. The author anticipated finding changes in attitudes because of recent social developments such as awareness of world overpopulation, availability of birth control methods, pressure for…

The paper compares educational and occupational aspirations and expectations of 500 black and white students from a San Antonio college. Previous research had produced conflicting theories of social class and race as determinants of expectations. This study employed a self-administered questionnaire which included the Occupational Aspiration Scale…

This report provides an overview of a series of studies testing the thesis that basic reading skill is a powerful mediating mechanism in social psychological explanations of pupil performances in a range of subject-matter outcomes of schooling. Basing analyses on the data base of the International Association outcomes of schooling. Basing analyses…

A model demonstrates how low correlations for academic achievement in separate units of instruction can be compatible with high correlations for cumulated achievement. The unit achievement is assumed to consist of a task-specific part and a part correlated with a predictor. When units of learning are cumulated, attrition of earlier learning takes…

In 1965 a parliamentary commission began a review of the whole system of competency and university admission in Sweden in order to simplify it and bring it into line with other education reforms. The research projects undertaken as a basis for making reform recommendations were published in 1970, and the findings are briefly reviewed here. The…

The report is concerned with the feasibility of matching people and jobs as proposed by the Theory of Work Adjustment; according to the third proposition of this theory, satisfaction is a function of the correspondence between the reinforcer system of the work environment and the individual's needs, with certain qualification. In the study, the…

To aid in the early identification of potential learning disabled children a multiple regression equation using analysis of covariance was used to determine which composite predictor variables obtained in kindergarten correlate maximally with first-grade achievement. Eighty-seven kindergarten students in Lawrence, Kansas, who had been instructed…

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…

This study was designed as an experimental evaluation of the relative efficiency of designated instructional techniques for student attainment of selected cognitive skills. The sequence in which the student encountered the curriculum, the means by which the student received the information, and the reinforcement effect of an official answer were…

The author has developed a model for transferring and implementing educational innovations from one institution to another. The model consists of an organized set of variables whose precedence relationships were determined by statistical analysis of collected data. A questionnaire was sent to a sample of prospective consumers of educational…

Objective psychological measures, personal historical data, and seven criterion measures of performance were made on 67 physician extenders (MEDEX) in five consecutive classes at a southeastern university training site over a two year period, October 1972-April 1975. Multiple regression analysis was used to identify significant predictors for each…

This paper discusses three related studies conducted in California in the mid-1960s that investigated factors related to incumbent defeat in school board of elections and turnover in the school superintendency. The first study dealt with turnover in the superintendency subsequent to defeat of a single incumbent board member; a significant…

This document examines the position of the Peralta Community College District as defined by the Budget Division-240 (B.D.-240), a statistical projection prepared annually by the California Department of Finance which measures the current and future student load on California community college districts. This load is used as an index of the demand…