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Bridgeman, Brent – 1989
The Advanced Placement Program reports grades to students and colleges on a 1 to 5 point scale derived from combining the separate scores on the multiple-choice and free-response sections of Advanced Placement Examinations (ADPEs). In this study, predictions of grades in first-semester college biology courses were made based on students' separate…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Biology, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations
Download full textCaldwell, Roger L.; Brown, Kenneth – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competiveness, this document discusses the national and state level for making judgments about future enrollment options for Arizona's universities. Relevant national and statewide trends are identified. Future challenges include…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Quality, Efficiency, Enrollment Projections
Collins, Paul; And Others – Review and Evaluation Bulletins, 1982
Three scenarios about education in the province of Ontario to the year 2005 are described in this publication. The major purpose of the scenarios is to stimulate thought about the future. Taking a holistic approach, the authors describe education in its economic, political, and social milieu, since education does not take place in isolation. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Economic Climate, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Phi Delta Kappa, Bloomington, IN. – 1984
This handbook is designed to aid school administrators, policy-makers, and teachers in bringing a "futures orientation" to their schools. The first part of the book describes a "futuring process" developed as a tool for examining alternative future probabilities. It consists of a series of diverging and converging techniques that alternately…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Trends
Facilitating Non-Traditional Learning: An Update on Research and Evaluation in Intensive Scheduling.
Doyle, Richard J.; Yantis, John – 1977
Intensive scheduling has been shown to be an effective educational medium. The Institute for Personal and Career Development at Central Michigan University has developed an external degree program for adults that uses various innovative approaches including intensive scheduling. Several scheduling patterns are offered. A number of studies have…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cognitive Development, Continuing Education Centers, Continuing Education Units
Hoffman, Bernard B. – 1974
A model for forecasting postsecondary enrollment, the PDEM-1, is considered, which combines the traditional with a cross-pressure impact decision-making model. The model is considered in relation to its background, assumptions, survey instrument, model conception, applicability to educational environments, and implementation difficulties. The…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Budgeting, College Attendance, College Bound Students
Prather, James E.; Posey, Ellen I. – 1981
Technical considerations in the development of a salary equity model based upon regression analysis are reviewed, and a simplified salary prediction equation is examined. Application and communication of the results of the analysis within the existing operational context of a postsecondary institution are also addressed. The literature is…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Departments, Educational Background
Lewis, Margaret; And Others – 1981
A systematic needs assessment model that may be useful to program planners in designing student personnel services is examined, and its implementation at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, during the 1979-80 academic year is described. The focus of the model is on identifying groups of students with similar service delivery needs through…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, College Role, College Students, Factor Analysis
Dominguez, John R. – 1977
A methodological approach to tenure planning is illustrated in this study that examines the tenure characteristics of a research-oriented institution vis-a-vis other research universities and its own intramural schools and departments. Cross-sectional comparisons and time series projections are made to indicate the relative tenure position of an…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Age, College Administration, College Faculty
Schwartz, Peter – 1978
There exists a question as to whether United States society and its agricultural system will continue to follow the long-term trend of Western civilization or move in a new direction. The "modernization trend" of Western civilization has 4 components: scientification of knowledge, secularization of human values, industrialization of…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Trends, Economic Change
de Wolf, Virginia A. – 1980
Presented are background and academic performance data for one cohort of foreign undergraduates who entered the University of Washington (UW) as new students, those 336 entrants in fall 1978. Initially, the total group was subdivided on the basis of whether English was the "mother tongue" of the student's home country (26 percent came…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Educational Background
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Postsecondary Research, Information Systems, and Institutional Aid. – 1980
A highly technical report describes higher education forecasting procedures used by the State Education Department of New York at Albany to project simulated college enrollments for New York State from 1978-1994. Basic components of the projections--generated for full- and part-time undergraduates, full- and part-time graduates, and…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, College Bound Students, Data Analysis, Declining Enrollment
Brooks, Phillips V. – 1980
An interdisciplinary futures program was established as part of the core curriculum at Davis and Elkins College to prepare students for the variety of personal and social changes they are likely to experience during their lifetimes. Courses in the program are taught sequentially during each of the undergraduate years. At the freshmen, sophomore,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Students, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Design
Borker, Susan R.; Loughlin, Julia – 1979
The paper explores the present economic and social position of over 5,000 middle-aged women (39-53) and examines the relationship of their present status to their future financial security. The women were interviewed six times from 1967 to 1976; black respondents outnumbered whites approximately three to one. Results indicate that while the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Divorce, Economic Status, Employed Parents
GLOVER, J.H. – 1966
THE CHIEF OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY OF SPEED-SKILL ACQUISITION WAS TO FIND A MATHEMATICAL MODEL CAPABLE OF SIMPLE GRAPHIC INTERPRETATION FOR INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND PRODUCTION SCHEDULING AT THE SHOP FLOOR LEVEL. STUDIES OF MIDDLE SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN MACHINE AND VEHICLE ASSEMBLY, AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION, SPOOLMAKING AND THE MACHINING OF PARTS CONFIRMED…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training, Job Skills, Learning Plateaus
