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Orlofsky, Jacob L. – 1979
Changes in men's and women's societal roles and in their personality characteristics might be expected to lead to corresponding changes in the personal relations between sexes. Male (N=140) and female (N=95) college students, classified as sex-typed, cross-sex-typed, androgynous, or undifferentiated on the basis of their Bem Sex Role Inventory…
Descriptors: Androgyny, Congruence (Psychology), Dating (Social), Individual Differences
BAILEY, BENJAMIN H. – 1966
THIS STUDY EXAMINED "TALENT LOSS" FROM INADEQUATE EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF 1,698 HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS FROM 10 SCHOOLS CONSTITUTING A SAMPLE OF THE STATE WERE STUDIED IN RELATION TO SUBSEQUENT COLLEGE ATTENDANCE. STUDENTS RESPONDED TO A PERSONAL DATA FORM, THE COLLEGE IMAGE INDEX, THE SCHOOL AND…
Descriptors: Achievement, College Attendance, Grade Point Average, Grade 12
GORELICK, MOLLY C. – 1966
THIS PROJECT WAS DESIGNED TO FIND MEANS OF PREDICTING THE POSTSCHOOL EMPLOYMENT SUCCESS OF EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED ADOLESCENTS. TWO HYPOTHESES WERE--(1) THERE IS A POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POSTSCHOOL SUCCESS IN EMPLOYMENT AND REALISTIC VOCATIONAL PLANS, AND (2) THOSE EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED IN WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAMS WILL HAVE MORE…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aptitude, Aspiration, Career Choice
CREAGER, JOHN A. – 1967
A THEORETICAL SCHEME WAS DISCUSSED FOR MATCHING STUDENTS TO COLLEGES THROUGH THE USE OF A DIRECTORY WHICH COULD CONTAIN PROFILES OF STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS AND OF COLLEGE ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS. EACH PROFILE WOULD CARRY A DESIGNATED INDEX NUMBER FACTORED FROM THE INPUT OF GIVEN CHARACTERISTIC VARIABLES. WHEN USED BY THE STUDENT AND HIS…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Planning, College Students, Colleges
Glaser, Robert – 1980
This paper concentrates on cognitive psychological research on school subjects using as illustration work in reading, mathematics, and aptitude for learning. In general, the work in reading research can be characterized in terms of three themes: (1) comprehension as the construction of knowledge; (2) the structure of text; and (3) reading as the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Classroom Research, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education
Crooks, Terence J. – 1980
Six widely used college admissions variables and four course-specific measures (tests of entering mathematical skills and physics knowledge, and indexes of previous study of mathematics and physics) were correlated with final marks for 495 students in an introductory college physics course. The college admissions variables included scores on…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Class Rank, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
Slitor, Richard E. – 1980
A review and analysis of the economic outlook for the early 1980s, this paper emphasizes the uncertainties that characterize current predictions. It begins with the highlights of the consensus forecast that predicts a mild to moderate recession tapering off after midyear 1980, with a sluggish recovery extending through 1981 and probably 1982. The…
Descriptors: Credit (Finance), Economic Climate, Economics, Federal Aid
Padgitt, Steven; Gibbs, Leonard – 1980
Since the phenomenon of reabuse is postulated as being more probable after initial child abuse than is the probability of an initial abuse and since only modest inquiry has been directed at this phenomenon, research was conducted to answer two questions: Is there patterning to reabuse? And if so, is this different in metro and nonmetro…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Child Abuse, Comparative Analysis
Hilliard, Asa G., III – 1979
The standardized IQ tests which are in use in the schools are scientifically and pedagogically without merit. The construct "intelligence" is a hypothetical notion whose valid expression has yet to be born. IQ tests and the construct of intelligence can be discarded at present, and teaching strategies would be unaffected. To successful teachers…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Identification, Intelligence, Intelligence Quotient
Mitchell, Thomas E. – 1980
Kelley's cube model of attributions (1967) can be applied to moral judgments to predict how individuals arrive at attributions concerning dispositional or environmental causes. The relative contributions of the three dimensions of Kelley's cube to attributions of morality and trustworthiness were tested by presenting 37 male and 77 female subjects…
Descriptors: Adults, Attribution Theory, Behavior Standards, Behavioral Science Research
Toporovsky, R. H. – 1979
The Departmental Enrollment Projection Model (DEPM), which is based on the assumption that enrollments are essentially influenced by economic and social forces, is described. Under the model's approach, the department, rather than the institution as a whole, is seen as the focal point of both the enrollment projection and, by implication, the…
Descriptors: College Planning, Conference Reports, Departments, Economic Factors
Rosenberg, Steven A. – 1977
The paper describes a study of the relationship of personality and family variables to the capacity of 42 families to care for their handicapped infants. The predictor variables included two distinct measures of commitment as well as measures of consensus, resources, boundary permeability and locus of control. Outcome measures were the child's…
Descriptors: Child Development, Exceptional Child Research, Family Attitudes, Family Relationship
Doyle, Timothy C.; And Others – 1978
The effect of future health system changes on the requirements for registered nurse (RN) personnel at the state level are examined in this report. Following a report introduction, chapter 2 discusses the baseline scenario which provides an estimate of RN requirements in the absence of three changes: the introduction of national health insurance,…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Health Needs, Health Services
Heneman, Herbert G., Jr.; Seltzer, George – 1968
Data were collected from 69 large employers and interviews were held with 25 of these for purposes of introducing the researchers to research in the problems of manpower planning and forecasting. Findings from this heuristic survey of employers included: (1) 72 percent forecast some of their manpower requirements, (2) 36 percent forecast external…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Feasibility Studies, Labor Economics
MacArthur, R.S. – 1966
Discussed are issues involved in testing the mental abilities of nonWestern, nonurban ethnic groups. Within this context the paper reviews conceptions of intelligence and intellectual potential, prediction under fixed and adaptive conditions, the question of environmental influences, and some formal test factors. Examples are drawn from African…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cultural Context, Culture Fair Tests, Environmental Influences
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