A study was conducted to determine what variables are prepotent in establishing a teacher's expectancy for a pupil. Seven 20-minute experiments were conducted using a sample of 84 teachers who were randomly assigned to an experimental treatment and then reassigned for each subsequent experiment regardless of their previous assignment. Treatments…

Presented is a discussion of the role of explanation and prediction in determining science curriculum content. It is the author's contention that many of the concepts currently presented in high school and college science courses are based on assumptions long rejected as false by scientists because curriculum designers have failed to examine…

An historical study of officer input from the various Air Force commissioning programs was initiated in 1963. The study was designed to determine the predictability of an Air Force officer's career decision and to evaluate relationships between career intent and demographic, environmental, and attitudinal factors. Career-intention information for…

Recently the application of Bayesian statistical procedures within the field of guidance and counseling has been receiving attention. This paper justifies and illustrates a simple, direct application of Bayes' Formula to expectancy tables. To make the application a counselor must specify prior probabilities that a student will attain success…

This collection of papers represents the first in a projected series of books concerned with the future of education. Its purposes are to provide educators with insights into the thinking of futurologists, to illuminate the significance to education of their thinking, and to introduce educational practitioners to the tools used for future studies.…

This manual presents school enumeration techniques to be used for 1-year, 5-year, medium-range, and long-range planning periods. The resulting projections provide estimates of school enrollment by grade for the entire school system. (Author)

The purpose of the Neyman-Johnson statistical technique is to determine a region or span of values on r independent variables where the predicted criterion scores of two or more treatment groups are significantly different. Consequently, the technique should prove especially useful in research concerned with moderator variables or with the…

The influence of social trends, economic trends and developments in information technology on the information needs of the people of the United States is examined in this essay. The focus is on the period from 1975 to 1980, a time close enough to the present that some projections and predictions may be based on more than guesswork, yet far enough…

Comparisons of majority and minority group regression lines for purposes of assessing test bias may, under certain conditions, be viewed as comparisons of conditional bivariate distributions. Where these conditions hold, findings should reveal parallel regression lines except for a special case. Given the conditions described, one implication is…

In the fall of 1961, the Indiana Bureau of Educational Studies and Testing developed a procedure for predicting the first semester grade point average (GPA) on entering freshmen at the Indiana University from a combination of their CEEB Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores and their high school ranks (HSR). This document is the third revision of…

The essays contained in this volume are concerned with the existing and potential role of international organizations in coping with the environmental impact of the widespread application of science and technology. The results of the study are designed to be useful to policy-makers and students of international organizations. The essays are…

This paper describes a study which was intended to identify those characteristics of ninth grade males which differentiated among the following four tenth grade groups: successful vocational; unsuccessful vocational; successful academic; and unsuccessful academic. The criterion for the findings was composed of four mutually exclusive categories…

A group of experts on population projections was convened in Thailand in late 1975. It was organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. This report is the result of background papers used at the conference, reactions to the papers, and further writing. Chapter headings are: (1) Introduction; (2) The Role…

Mathematicians can help their institutions plan for the future by development and use of models for enrollment patterns. (SD)

A paradigm for the identification and development of giftedness is offered. (DB)