The relationship of performance in mathematics to syntactical language factors obtained from speech samples was investigated with 95 senior high school geometry students. Statistical procedures included correlation analysis and stepwise regression. The findings indicated that certain syntactical measures indicating logical thought processes…

The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the field of educational futures. It describes a framework for educational futures that moves from the understanding of global futures data to action planning for dealing with the understanding those data have for education. The paper discusses the future of government, life styles, and…

The draft report describes a study to identify the cognitive skills related to academic performance in five career areas and 19 academic majors at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and to compare skill profile differences among groups of students (N=1,047) in the various career areas and academic majors. Results of a battery of tests…

TO EVALUATE THE PREDICTIVE VALIDITY OF THE ACT TESTS AND THE NON-ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT SCALES OF THE STUDENT PROFILE SECTION, AT 14 2-YEAR AND 21 4-YEAR COLLEGES STUDENTS WHO HAD COMPLETED THE ACT BATTERY PRIOR TO ADMISSION WERE SURVEYED FOR THEIR ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING THEIR FRESHMAN YEAR. CRITERIA INCLUDED COLLEGE…

TO DETERMINE THE POSSIBILITY OF IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF PREDICTING FIRST QUARTER GRADE POINT AVERAGES FOR ENTERING FRESHMEN AT CLARK COLLEGE, REGRESSION ANALYSIS WAS USED TO ESTABLISH EQUATIONS FOR PREDICTING GRADE AVERAGES FROM SCORES EARNED IN THE WASHINGTON PRE-COLLEGE TESTING PROGRAM. PREVIOUS PREDICTION HAD BEEN BASED ON FORMULAS DERIVED…

A PSYCHIATRIST, A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, AND A SOCIAL WORKER EACH MADE INDEPENDENT CASE STUDIES OF EACH OF 300 CHILDREN EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THE SECOND AND FIFTH GRADES. TWO OBJECTIVES WE KEPT IN MIND--(1) MAKING AN ACCURATE PREDICTION OF THE CHILD'S ADJUSTMENT TO SCHOOL AND (2) TRYING TO DEVISE A USEFUL SET OF CRITERIA UPON WHICH CONSISTENT…

THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE VALUE OF PREVIOUS GRADES IN MATHEMATICS COURSES, THE OVERALL HIGH SCHOOL GRADE POINT AVERAGE, AND THE PLACEMENT TEST IN MATHEMATICS DEVELOPED AT THE COLLEGE AS PREDICTORS OF ACHIEVEMENT IN INTRODUCTORY AND INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA, IN COLLEGE ALGEBRA, IN TRIGONOMETRY, AND IN ANALYTIC GEOMETRY…

A CONTINUATION STUDY OF USOE PROJECT NUMBER 1493 EXTENDED THE EXAMINATION OF PROBLEMS IN USING MULTIVARIATE SCALING TECHNIQUES FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF INTERESTS. AN EXPERIMENTAL INSTRUMENT, SIMILAR IN FORMAT TO THE SOCIAL RELATIONS SCALE CONSTRUCTED BY GARDNER AND THOMPSON (1956), WAS PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED. SUBTESTS ON THIS INSTRUMENT (THE INTEREST…

Two projects conducted at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan investigated factors involved in the adoption and dissemination of classroom innovations by college instructors. The first investigated the use of various instructional technologies among faculty members who received released time and financial…

Contradictory predictions concerning control over negative events exist in Walster's self-protective attribution theory which maintains that on-lookers in negative situations are apt to seek control by convincing themselves that such a situation couldn't happen to them, while Shaver's defensive attribution theory suggests that in a comparable…

TO PREDICT THE NEED FOR CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS OF PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES AND TO EXPLORE SOURCES FOR RECRUITING SUCH PERSONNEL, DATA WERE COLLECTED FROM (1) BIOGRAPHICAL PUBLICATIONS, (2) QUESTIONNAIRES FROM 333 CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS, (3) PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE AND PUBLICATIONS, AND (4) STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SOURCES.…

Identified were characteristics of students who persisted in engineering, transferred to another major, or dropped out of college. Four hundred-thirty freshmen, sophomores, and juniors in the College of Engineering at the University of North Dakota were involved in the study during 1965-66. Data on students included American College Test scores,…

The booklet examines findings from the Vermont Child Development Project (VCPD) concerning the identification of and intervention with preschool children at risk for behavior disorders. It is explained that the VCPD includes epidemiological surveys, high risk family studies, intervention studies, and a follow-along survey. Provided is an example…

A stepwise canonical procedure, including two selection indices for variable deletion and a rule for stopping the iterative procedure, was derived as a method of selecting core variables from predictors and criteria. The procedure was applied to simulated data varying in the degree of built in structures in population correlation matrices, number…

A study was conducted to determine the relationship between grades received in prerequisite biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics courses and subsequent average grades received in science major areas. Seven major areas were investigated. Subjects were students who graduated from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), who had taken…