Data every ten years from 1928 show enrollment, expenditures, and costs for teachers' salaries and plant operation at all educational levels. (MLF)

Argues that it is possible for non-native learners of English to use English spelling to predict the correct pronunciation of words. Word stress and vowel quality are focused upon: their communicative importance, treatment in ESL instruction, prediction by rule, and presentation in new ESL materials. (KM)

A study sought to identify student characteristics which account for academic achievement in clinical pharmacy courses. Preclinical grade point average was the best predictor. Subscales of the California Personality Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, work experience, sex, and age were the other predictor variables. (SW)

Develops and validates a new language aptitude battery to be used for the selection of military personnel for training at the Defense Language Institute which offers over 50 foreign language courses. (RC)

The author suggests the use of expectancy tables as a method for informing students about the predictability of their future performance. The expectancy table simply and directly reveals the relationship between measures of past performance and those of future performances. (Author)

A description of a complicated evaluation system to stimulate student motivation in university level German language courses. The total evaluation is based on points distributed throughout the course. The process, including advantages and disadvantages, is discussed in detail. Copies of the syllabus are available. (AMH)

Poor attendance in foreign language classes is presented as an indicator of poor performance. (HP)

A comparison of two forms of the College Entrance Examination Board's (CEEB) English Composition Test with four rhetoric final examinations in a basic English composition course indicated that the CEEB was more stable and yielded better item statistics while departmental examinations were more highly related to course grade. (Editor/JT)

The study demonstrated the effectiveness of a modified Double ABCX or FAAR (Family Adjustment and Adaptation Response) model in predicting successful adaptation (good marital adjustment, few maternal depressive symptoms, and an in-home rating of family functioning) in 45 families of autistic and communication impaired children (ages 2-10).…

The integration of language and culture should be a priority for language teaching and learning in the coming decade. College-level second language instruction should include discussion (but not mastery of) such related aspects as dialects, heuristics, jargon, and social/class differences in pronunciation and language use. (CB)

Describes a model for studying and identifying revolution condensed from Crane Brinton's "Anatomy of Revolution." Explains how the characteristics of the model can be applied to hypothetical, historical, and contemporary situations. Outlines the teaching sequence, illustrating how students are taught a historical model and how to apply…

Comments on a previous paper concerning Early Childhood Special Education in the year 2000 include the endorsement of a forecast that a new type of research will emerge for intervention procedures. Suggested is the progressive case study approach. (DB)

Examined the relation between self-report and behavioral ratings of depression for young adolescents and their mothers, and the relation between, and family correlates and predictors of, adolescent and maternal depression. Found self-report and behavioral-rating measures of depression related for mothers but not for adolescents, and maternal and…

Life stories of three child maltreatment survivors illustrate how resilience is fostered by various protective factors. Protective factors include personal characteristics or skills (e.g., precocious maturity, dissociation of affect), generic life circumstances (e.g., good health, social welfare services), and abuse-specific factors (e.g.,…

Strategies are suggested to assist students with reading comprehension difficulties. Strategies include: (1) developing appropriate background through discussion of story concepts, brainstorming, conceptual webbing, and kinesthetic or tactile experiences; (2) asking students to predict what will happen; (3) reciprocal questioning between students…