This study was designed to assess parents' awareness of their young children's linguistic and cognitive levels and affective preferences in an attempt to investigate why parents modify their speech when talking to young children. Sixteen middle-class couples and their first-born children between the ages of 2 and 5 years participated in the study.…

The purpose of this book is to give educators new ideas about events happening now that will undoubtedly have an impact on the future and will require major modifications in educational programs. The author synthesizes what he considers salient events and factors that are likely to influence the direction education will take. Chapters 1 through 3…

This paper was part of a symposium examining, from a multiple perspective, the lessons to be learned from the past decade of school finance reform and outlines a research and political agenda for state and federal activity in the 1980s. The issues that school finance litigation has addressed during the 1970s are reviewed, the current cases and…

A survey of grade 12 students in Ontario, conducted in spring 1973, sought to identify what factors influence an adolescent's future educational and vocational plans. A followup telephone survey of the same grade 12 students was conducted in November 1973 to evaluate the predictive utility of an "intentions" survey. The objectives of…

The material in this report was developed primarily as a basis for better planning and allocation of limited resources in a district experiencing a declining enrollment for the foreseeable future. The charts were developed on the basis of historical enrollment information by grade level, and forecasts were based on a standard regression formula…

This study attempted to determine whether the mental test performance of 77 children tested at 6, 12, and 36 months of age could be predicted from scores on an Inventory of Home Stimulation used to assess the children's home environment during their infancy. The Inventory of Home Stimulation had six subscales: (1) emotional and verbal responsivity…

The purposes of work measurements are to provide an economic indicator for developing counter cyclical fiscal and monetary policy, and to facilitate the development and implementation of more full employment measures. This report presents five part recommendations or guidelines that would improve the use of labor statistics as a vital tool for…

The process of selecting applicants for admission to a new school of medicine (Southern Illinois University School of Medicine) is examined through the use of multivariate regression techniques. More than 250 variables were analyzed and classified as to source of data: student American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS) application,…

Presented are 18 papers on predicting adolescent drug abuse. The papers have the following titles: "Current Issues in the Epidemiology of Drug Abuse as Related to Psychosocial Studies of Adolescent Drug Use"; "The Quest for Interpersonal Predictors of Marihuana Abuse in Adolescents"; "Assessing the Interpersonal Determinants of Adolescent Drug…

Educational institutions in major urban areas often require student residency data more precise than that provided by census, general survey, or enrollment statistics. By using zip code information furnished with student addresses, these data can be made easily accessible through computer retrieval. Miami-Dade Junior College (Florida) has found…

This study is the third in a series to assess the relationship between educational criteria other than grades and the Washington Pre-College (WPC) test battery. Five hundred and ninety-seven returned questionnaires from Seattle-area schools provided post-high school educational criteria to be correlated with WPC test scores and high school grades.…

This paper looks at present and future capabilities for diagnosis and prediction in computer-based guidance efforts and reviews the problems and potentials which will accompany the implementation of such capabilities. In addition to necessary procedural refinement in prediction, future developments in computer-based educational and career…

This study explores the career development of women during the five year period after high school, examining the determinants of that development and presenting data which may provide a basis for better vocational guidance and a theory of occupational choice in women. The study employs longitudinal data from the Project TALENT data bank and 17,009…

A longitudinal study (1960-1966) investigated the effects of home environment on school achievement. This preliminary report focuses on children who were enrolled in junior kindergarten in 1960. The following year all children enrolled in senior kindergarten became part of the study. The first section of the document outlines data collection…

To test the hypothesis that experimentally-induced success and failure experiences would differentially affect mentally retarded and normal children, 24 educable mentally retarded children and their matched mental age (MA) and chronological age (CA) controls were given six trials on a verbal 5-item vocabulary task. The subjects (Ss) were given, in…