Despite alarming predictions, the worklife expectations of America's "baby boom" generation may not be much different from those of other age cohorts. Besides demography, factors like technological change, industrial structures, and methods of management have a great influence on job availability. Employment trends remain difficult to…

Compared the effectiveness of the High School Personality Questionnaire and the Jesness Inventory in predicting treatment outcomes of emotionally disturbed adolescent females (N=15). Results indicated girls who did not complete treatment were less stable, insecure, anxious, and more likely to experience interpersonal conflicts. (JAC)

Focuses on role of library and agencies charged with provision of information in an environment of technological change. Predictions concerning aspects of the emerging information society (computer literacy, home computers), the death of libraries, and effects of a paperless society on libraries in developing countries are noted. Footnotes are…

Emerging public issues are frequently preceded by signals in the social or political environment. Provided are examples of scanning and monitoring techniques used to detect the following issues: water as a natural resource, social acceptability of the chemical industry, and rights in jobs. (RM)

Future vocational and residential placements of 17 deaf-blind children predicted by their mothers were compared to placements predicted by a state coordinator of deaf-blind services. Most mothers agreed with the coordinator regarding the level of future independence in residential placement, but were more likely to offer a negative prediction for…

Considers alternative strategies for optimizing statistical power in applied psychological research, including increasing sample size, combining predictors, and increasing alpha. Concluded that a priori power analysis should be a major consideration in any test of an hypothesis. Alpha level adjustment should be viewed as useful for increasing…

An important goal of a social studies program is not only to help students face change but also to develop future goals for himself as an individual. This article considers a process for instructing students to use the past and the present for projecting the future. (Author/RK)

A model is developed and evaluated for use in the water jug task in in which subjects are required to find a sequence of moves which produce a specified amount of water in each jug. Results indicate that the model presented correctly predicts the difficulties of different problems and describes the behavior of subjects in the process of problem…

Walker and Shaw link the teaching of ten commonly taught reading strategies such as sequencing, compare and contrast, and prediction to newly published picture book titles. Each chapter of the book provides a strategy, a graphic organizer to teach it with, and an in- depth modeled discussion of how to use the strategy with two or three books.…

A general cognitive theory of interest is offered to allow for predicting the degree to which any informational environment is perceived as interesting. The theory is assessed in a study that tested predictions of a knowledge-schema theory of cognitive interest. Three classes of hypotheses regarding the cognitive causes of interest are identified…

The lack of a conceptually and psychometrically strong measure of human mental workload has undermined interpretations of research based on cognitive load theory. Applying a confirmatory factor analysis approach to construct validation, a Subjective Mental Workload Survey was developed with four distinct subscales: Difficulty, Incompetence,…

Summarizes some aspects of the environmental impact draft statement prepared to assess the feasibility of liquid-metal fast-breeder reactors in commercial power generation. (CC)

Authors presented a vector algebra approach to predicting excellence in college teachers at any educational level. (Author/RK)

Simulation games are currently being used to teach high school students how to forecast the weather. The students are cast in the roles of forecasters given meteorological information to predict the weather and, in addition, how it will affect the lifestyles of a particular area. (DS)