This study tested the hypothesis that pretreatment level of play would predict the rate of increase in prelinguistic, intentional requesting during prelinguistic communication intervention of 8 children (ages 21 to 30 months) with developmental disabilities. A positive relation was found between amount of transitional or symbolic play at baseline…

A natural language sample of babble and words was obtained for 47 2-year-old children and compared with expressive language scores 5 months later. More than 50 percent of the variance in language outcome test scores was accounted for by rate of word use, rate of vowel babble, and behavior problems. (Author/DB)

School leaders can take comfort from the new sciences and use them to cope with the many paradoxes and swirling changes that nullify their usual leadership tools. School leaders inhabit a chaotic, nonlinear world, but everyone wants more structure for security. The challenge is to find predictability even in the most unpredictable of times. Trying…

The effectiveness of a research protocol which utilized the perinatal period to detect risk factors for child abuse and provide appropriate intervention for new parents in Poitiers, France, is examined, given the death of a one-month-old baby girl from child abuse. The paper emphasizes the difficulty with prediction and the limits of prevention…

Examined factors that predict dropping out of therapy among children referred for treatment of oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior. Several factors related to family (socioeconomic disadvantage, adverse child-rearing practice), parent (stress, life events, history of antisocial behavior), and child functioning (severity and…

Analysis of data on 101 entering proprietary college students found that (1) predictors of initial achievement were entrance exam scores, gender, race, age, grade point average, and expectations; (2) dropout predictors were marital status, work hours, prior achievement, absences, and faculty interaction; and (3) age, gender, race, and children did…

Data from sample of 232 seventh, 225 ninth, and 222 eleventh graders were analyzed using Health Belief Model, which accounted for 43 percent, 27 percent, and 17 percent, respectively, of variance in safer sex intentions. Health-related motivations should be focus of educational programs for younger adolescents, whereas social environment and…

At the national level, factors that may discourage teacher strikes include the availability of revenues and the greater "sophistication" of negotiators. Highlights legislation proposed in Pennsylvania that sets a timetable for negotiations and puts restrictions on when teachers can call a strike. (MLF)

The planning and decision-making models from the traditional research paradigms, combined with the tools and orientation of futurists, have much to contribute to our knowledge about planning for educational change. Educators must approach planning, coping with change, goal setting, decision making, problem solving, and curricular leadership with…

Summarizes the first year's results of an Oregon mandate that hospitals report all attempted suicides by adolescents and compares the characteristics of attempted adolescent suicides in 1988 with completed suicides between 1979 and 1988. The best predictor of outcome was the method used; the relationship between method and outcome must be further…

Identifies college and university students and delineates their needs and characteristics. Discusses areas of student needs that warrant special attention and areas that are predicted to persist in the 1990s. Presents suggested implications for student affairs staff and administrators to help them improve student conditions for the 1990s. (NB)

Describes a vocabulary lesson in a seventh-grade language arts class that incorporates making predictions with vocabulary acquisition. (SR)

The purpose of this study was to elucidate the relationship between students' procedural and declarative problem solving associated with one particularly important problem-solving skill, prediction. The results confirm that successful prediction problem solving involve an intricate network of relevant declarative knowledge that is manipulated and…

Notes that assertion of autonomy helps predict teenager's attitude toward pregnancy and parenthood and that ability to predict future relationship with infant has direct implications for achievement of adaptive outcome. Contends that interpersonal outcome of parent-infant relationship may be predicted by adolescent's behaviors with infant. The…

Investigated differences in robustness of two independent variables for predicting National Teacher Examinations (NTE) scores and grade point averages (GPAs) for college seniors and recent graduates (n=1,441). By every method of analysis, data clearly indicated superiority of College Basic Academic Subjects Examination over American College…