When using videotapes in instruction, allowing the student to observe and then predict what the videotaped subject will do next removes the threatening aspect of the instruction and results in greater student involvement. (AG)

The purposes of this study were to determine which of the tests, PPVT, SIT, or Lorge-Thorndike (LT), may be the most useful to the classroom teacher in predicting reading achievement, for use in reading expectancy formulas, and for analyzing I.Q. scores obtained on different tests. (Author/RK)

Scholarly growth in the study of politics of education rests in part on replication of theories to explicate recurring political events. Describes a study that sought to replicate and extend scholarly work done in California concerning the predictions of school board election results. (Author)

Previous experiments with grade school children, designed to raise their expectations for their own performance, were repeated with pupil subgroups formed according to race, sex, and age. Positive results were reproduced, and further analyses are presented to assess the effect of some status factors in the situation. (Author/JB)

Successful implementation of a modular-flexible schedule was found to facilitate subsequent school structure changes by principals; questionnaires were sent to school principals and a national jury'' to provide both practical and theoretical answers. (Editor/SP)

Student teachers' scores on an instrument requiring the insertion of deleted words in descriptions of scientific process tasks (cloze procedure) were better predictors of later performance of the same process tasks than verbal ability or scientific vocabulary scores. (AL)

The expectations of 50 rehabilitation leaders for the role and responsibilities of rehabilitation counselors in 1980 are summarized. Their projections, made in 1967, include the types of tasks, settings, clients, and services rehabilitation counselors will experience. (Author)

Unlike previous studies, the present experiments simultaneously differentiated the stimulus events along more than one (binary) dimension. (Authors)

Research has shown that public agency counselors frequently reject for services those clients who are severely disabled. This finding suggests an unwillingness to take risks with difficult cases. Presented here is a scale designed to measure risk-taking in the context of the client-selection process. (Author)

The author takes issue with a previously published capsule study on predictability of college success. (BY)