Reports on the techniques and approaches to planning actually being used by corporate strategists. Provides information concerning the survey and data on which this article is based, the planning process in approximately 400 business firms, and the use of two planning tools -- outside consultants and computers/mathematical models. (Author/WM)

This paper describes a critical study of the available forecasts and forecasting studies for the home video player market over a 15-year period which was undertaken to discover why so many forecasts were wrong about consumer adoption of home videocassette players and videodisk players, the reasons for these errors, and ways in which this knowledge…

In sorting through predictions about future communications, it should be kept in mind that if one can think of a communication technology in the future, then that communication technology will stand a very good chance of becoming a reality. In other words, the forecasting of invention is not separate from invention itself. Secondly, the inventions…

This study compared former remedial students with non-remedial students in regular college mathematics courses. The two groups were compared on regular college mathematics grades, ACT composite scores, ACT mathematics scores, and high school grade point average. Results from the analysis of variance indicated no statistically significant…

The search for and generation of causal explanations required by the task of explaining an initial impression, appear to be sufficient to raise the subjective likelihood of the event explained and to result in the persistence of the initial impression. Generating supporting and counter arguments with respect to the event does not result in an…

Protocols were obtained from 22 subjects as they discovered the conditions under which equilibrium is obtained on a balance beam by predicting and observing the outcomes of a series of problems. The interviews revealed that subjects used a variety of heuristics to make predictions once they had isolated the two relevant features of the problem,…

Drawing from literature on technological advances, economic trends, and employment and labor market projections, this paper provides an overview of trends and their implications for California. After briefly analyzing the characteristics and effects of the information age, the paper examines the growth and development of high technology…

Using Schachter's theory of emotion as a starting point, two predictions regarding the interaction of alcohol consumed in social and solitary situations were tested experimentally. (Editor)

Describes ways to predict and plan for enrollment decline. (JF)

Article investigated the interest in science education among students within the Dutch system of education. As well student characteristics were examined. (RK)

Predictive ratings of trainees in a skill training setting by their instructors are compared and contrasted with first-line supervisory ratings of the same trainees in an employment setting. An ethnic subgroup analysis suggests some possible differences in terms of range and variations of prediction. (Author)

Two experiments examined memory load, rule frequency, and rule arrangement in the prediction learning of serial digit patterns. (Editor)

Presents a new approach for estimating missing observations together with the results of a Monte Carlo study of the relative strengths and weaknesses of this technique and three other available methods. These techniques are then examined with respect to their ability to use incomplete data to estimate the correlation matrix obtained using a full…