Describes scales measuring attitudes toward violence and determining social values. In a study of American males, attitudes toward violence are strongly related to basic values, attitudes toward others, and the language used to describe events." (Author/AL)

Study set out to examine the relative importance of increased population, attendance rates, and structural changes within the educational system as these factors relate to teacher demand. (Author)

This study explored the intellective differences among males with A, B, and C grades in the counseling practicum. The nature and direction of the differences suggested that practicum grades tend to make valid discriminations between candidates with high and low potential as counselors. (Author)

A rationale for considering the implications of future trends and anticipating the future,'' and specific techniques for teachers. (Editor/SP)

How the administrator might anticipate student-initiated reform is examined by observing present school practices, crisis condition influence on the decision process, and implications of alternative administrative action. (LN)

Results in this study suggest that it is possible to use performance on a moderator or predictability scale to select a subgroup for whom correspondence between two predictors and the criterion is much greater than that of a subgroup whose scores on the moderator indicate a lesser degree of correspondence. (Author/ES)

Study of the relationship between performance and such characteristics as: grade point average; sex; major field; background in economics, mathematics, and statistics; and, graduate or undergraduate status. (Author/SE)

Described are the items, format, factor structure, and application of a 23 item Semantic Differential type Dropout Prediction Scale. (Author)

Factors that might allow prediction of the unwed mother's decision to keep her child or to surrender it for adoption are examined in this study of 137 white and black clients of a social agency. (NH)

Suggestions for change include development of new kinds of tests, higher standards for both tests and test users, and collaboration by test authors, publishers, and counselors within AMEG in an effort to prevent a complete dissolution of the marriage between tests and the counseling process. (Author)