Secondary geometry students were tested for van Hiele level of thinking, geometry knowledge and achievement, and proof-writing achievement. Proof-writing achievement correlated significantly with van Hiele level entering geometry knowledge and geometry achievement. The predictive validity of the van Hiele model was supported. (Author/DC)

Examines mathematical models of style analysis, focusing on the pattern in which literary characteristics occur. Describes an autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA) for predicting sentence length in different works by the same author and comparable works by different authors. This technique is valuable in characterizing stylistic…

Assessed the intelligence, attachment security, and dependency of 30 18-month-olds. Half of the infants' mothers were employed full time and half were nonemployed mothers. Studied were factors in mothers' lives such as stress, marital relationship, social contacts, and supports. Results suggest that different models to predict infant outcome in…

This paper examines two types of interaction between families and professionals that appear to accompany escalating, and potentially fatal, child abuse. In the case of "closure," families attempt to withdraw from contact with the outside world and particularly from monitoring professionals. In "covert warnings," families approach professionals and…

Twenty-two subjects with autism were tested on three perspective-taking tasks. Subjects were successful on two tasks that required them to make relatively direct connections between eating and hunger or visual access and knowledge. They failed a task which used stimuli of a more transient nature and less predictable reactions of the protagonists.…

This essay is a critique of educational futures as proposed by educators, members of the business community, and others. Speculations about the future found in most recent literature serve the interests of dominant sectors of Canadian society at the expense of student and general populations. (Author/SLD)

An outreach and linkage program for the homeless mentally ill documented successful outcomes in terms of housing but not in terms of functioning for the 163 participants. Recruitment source, client functioning cluster type, and hours of service received were predictors of the four-month residential setting. (SLD)

Using cognitive test data to simulate employment selection tests, data from 1,427 Northern Ireland students showed better science curriculum offerings in Protestant schools and differences in science provision for boys and girls. Poor science instruction adversely affects the range of career choices, especially for Catholic girls. (SK)

In a longitudinal study, risk characteristics were examined over 32 months for 100 women in an effort to identify predictors of sexual victimization in college dating. The best prediction model contained only two variables: precollege victimization in dating was positively correlated with college victimization, and sexual conservatism was…

Presents study results comparing college students' self-evaluation of recall accuracy to actual recall of detail after viewing a crime scenario. Reports that self-reported ability to remember detail correlates with accuracy in memory of specifics. Concludes that people may have a good indication early in the eyewitness situation of whether they…

A procedure for smoothing proportions of a double-entry expectancy table is described. The product is a nomograph from which can be read expectancies from combinations of values of two predictor variables. Use of the procedure in admission of first-year college students, based on students' high school class rank and standardized test composite…

Describes a problem formulated by fourth-grade students about having more pizza for lunch, and the clarifying, predicting, modeling, simulating, comparing, and extending activities that occurred in addressing the problem from a probabilistic perspective. (MKR)

Seven children with phonological disorders were analyzed for imperceptible acoustic distinctions for seemingly homophonous word pairs, and treatment was applied. Results indicate that productive knowledge of sounds and contrasts facilitates rapid learning of those sounds in treatment, and presence of an acoustic distinction for a contrast does not…

Analysis of survey data from clinicians and administrators at a large state hospital/developmental center revealed two underlying constructs of work-related stress: lack of administrative control and practice-related stress. Philosophical opposition to behavior therapy predicted job stress. Working with individuals with mental retardation versus…

Two views of the future of peer review for college and university faculty promotion are presented. One proposes that open files will mean less candid peer reviews and that evaluators may be called on to defend their evaluations in court. The second argues that openness has not led to increased litigation. (MSE)