Although group counseling is recognized as a needed and helpful approach, group counseling for enhancing career development has received little attention. This monograph provides information on group process, ideas, and techniques which have helped tie the principles of career development to group counseling. Chapter 1 defines group career…

The ability of social, economic, and educational variables to predict screening outcomes among 398 school districts in a statewide preschool screening program was examined. First, salient demographic and educational variables were identified and reduced to five global factors using principal components factor analysis. Then, five factor scores and…

Recent research has refuted the behaviorist approach by establishing a relationship between emotion and behavior. The data collection procedure, however, has often involved an inferred emotional state from a hypothetical situation. As partial fulfillment of a class requirement, 60 college students were asked to perform two problem solving tasks…

Previous research has suggested that good students (those above the median) are better than poor students (below the median) at estimating their academic performance. To examine the relationship between pre-test predictions and post-test estimations of academic performance, 30 college students were asked to predict their scores on each of four…

A creativity test along with both a self-concept battery and a behavior rating scale were administered to 55 first-grade children to see whether there existed a link between certain self-concepts such as anxiety, dependency, ego strength, attention, sense of identity, social conformity, behavior, intellectual and school status, physical…

The literature on self-predictions and self-efficacy suggests that, with age, accuracy is stressed at the expense of speed in performing a psychomotor task. To investigate the relationship between self-rated performance, actual performance, and task preferences as a function of age, 175 females, ranging in age from 17 to 72 years, were placed into…

Pascual-Leone's neo-Piagetian theory of development is used to predict the pre- and postinstruction distributions of scores on a subject-controlled digit placement task as a function of three parameters dealing with mental strategy and capacity. (Author/ED)

A study seeking how to identify potential student failure and some of its causes is reported. (Editor/PG)

Describes a model developed to forecast energy demands and determine trends in demand for primary fuels. The energy model essentially considers primary energy sources as competing commodities in a market. (MLH)

Makes predications concerning future aerospace technology in the areas of supersonic transportation, aircraft design, airfreight, military aviation, hypersonic aircraft and in the much distant future sub-orbital, rocket propelled transports. (BR)