Article discussed the nature and future of educational futurology and took a brief glance into the history of the idea of futurism (or futuristics) in general, and in education in particular. (Author/RK)

Empirically determines if two approaches, i.e., individual predictor information versus group information, would yield different predictive results, and since the second approach involved the additional expense of grouping whether the prediction of criterion measures by individual data could be enhanced by the addition of group data. (Author/RC)

The procedure was to isolate the component variables and then to formulate the logical and mathematical rules governing their interaction. Students were classified by age, grade, and sex; also, their entry to, movement through, and graduation from the system were examined. (Author)

Reports that the world is entering a post-industrialized state in which the chief raw product is information. Experimentation in which totally new products are formed is decreasing, being replaced by products which are synthesized from existing knowledge. Warns that the increase in scale that institutions and cities are encountering may result in…

The work on which this article is based has been designed to identify only the most significant facets of future research and development and planning in terms of their potential impact on the economic aspect of society. (Author)

Outlines a field-based project that shows how an urban school district can use futures research models to approach long-range planning. (Author/IRT)

Investigates the relative effectiveness of three types of selectors (graduate students, principals, and college faculty) in selecting new graduate students for an educational administration program. Examines the usefulness of various pieces of information in predicting success both in the graduate program and in later administrative practice.…

Surveys current methodologies and problems in enrollment forecasting at the State and institutional level. (Author/MLF)

A prediction for the future of television in the next decade in Europe. (HB)

Evaluations of both individual and group therapies have yielded equivocal results. The results of this study indicate that the proportion of variance contributed by pretesting is influenced by group membership, treatment, and outcome criterion and is largely unpredictable. (Author)

The ability to render more accurate predictions of the future will enable medical educators and administrators to make more advantageous policy and program decisions. Examples of how modern forecasting techniques can be applied to medical education are provided. (Editor/PG)

Forty subjects were trained to make numerical predictions of a criterion from a cue. (Editor)

Demographic variables, base rates, and personality characteristics of male delinquents were explored in three studies. The total population discharged from a treatment-oriented facility was followed. Significantly higher rates of recidivism were found among the younger delinquents, with prior institutional experience, and delinquents who had…

Twenty-six mildly distressed college student clients were assigned randomly to a nondirective or directive group. Internally oriented persons were more therapeutically responsive to the nondirective than to the directive approach, whereas the reverse tended to be the case among those more externally oriented. (Author)

Concludes that teachers' perceptions of academic maturity are a predictor of learning readiness. (RB)