After 1 year in the Auburn University School of Pharmacy, 77 students were analyzed to determine: what variables may reliably predict academic success, with success being defined as grade point average; what effect the PCAT has on predicting academic success; and whether a quantitative formula should be used to calculate probable success. (SW)

Given two assumptions: (1) that people expect a stranger to have attitudes similar to their own, and (2) the disconfirmation of this expectancy by a dissimilar stranger generates an aversive reaction which contributes to his rejection, it was reasoned that tolerance of a dissimilar stranger could be fostered by lessening the aversive reaction to…

Information available from birth certificates was used to preduct the psychological and educational status of approximately 1,000 randomly sampled first-grade children. (Author)

Contemplates the question of what lies in the future for religion through an evaluation of four trends that are discernible for the growth of mankind. (Author/RK)

It is noted that the Wisconsin-Milesky Battery, which includes such tests as subtests from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children and the Goodenough-Harris Draw-A-Man Test, provides a profile of elements predictive of the young deaf child's lip reading potential. (SBH)

The study was designed to provide information regarding the relationship between the WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence) and the WISC-R (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised), over a 1-year interval, for 90 children (an average age of 5.6 years at the time of first testing) of above average intelligence.…

Future changes and developments in library and information science education were forecasted by librarians and information scientists through a survey. Results are summarized for program goals, curriculum, students, faculty, accreditation, certification, types of degrees, administration and resources, continuing education, and library developments…

Teachers of 264 male youthful offenders enrolled in a General Educational Development (GED) program were asked to estimate when each student would complete the GED. Results indicate each subject predicted to complete the GED in less than 5 months stands a 50-50 chance of doing so, given the opportunity. (Author/CH)

Reviews the application of epidemiology to alcoholism. Discusses measurement and diagnostic issues and reviews studies of the prevalence of alcoholism, its risk factors, and the contributions of epidemiology to our knowledge of treatment and prevention. (Author/KS)

The follow-up study reports data from a population-based series of 23 Swedish children diagnosed in childhood as suffering from infantile autism and other childhood psychoses and followed through to the ages of 16-23 years. Intelligence quotient at diagnosis and communicative speech development before six years were the most important prognostic…

Applied statistical methods to predict case expenditures for low back pain rehabilitation cases in proprietary rehabilitation. Extracted predictor variables from case records of 175 workers compensation claimants with some degree of permanent disability due to back injury. Performed several multiple regression analyses resulting in a formula that…

Two experiments investigated sentence context effects on the naming times of sentence completion words by third-grade children and college students. The semantic acceptability of the word in the sentence context had a much greater influence on children's word identification times than adults'. (Author/CB)

Questionnaire responses from 146 high school cheerleaders indicated that acute, cheering-related dysphonia may be preceded or accompanied by a set of clinical signs that could be incorporated easily into a screening protocol for prospective cheerleaders. (Author/DB)

The study examined predictors of educational placement using the Personality Inventory for Children with 55 children previously identified as either learning disabled or nonhandicapped. Leading student characteristics predicting placement were (1) achievement; (2) adjustment; and (3) social incompetence, depression, defensiveness. (Author/DB)