This overview of futurism defines it as a movement believing that a positive future world may be created through wise decision-making and futuristic planning. Present societal conditions have provided an impetus for a futuristic focus, and various authors, think tanks, techniques, and organizations have contributed to the wide acclaim and respect…

Treatment attrition is a major problem for programs treating adolescent substance abusers. To isolate and cross validate factors which are predictive of addiction treatment attrition among adolescent substance abusers, screening interview and diagnostic variables from 119 adolescent in-patients were submitted to a discriminant equation analysis.…

This paper outlines psychological decision theory, summarizes eight prominent vocational decision-making models, compares and contrasts them on basic assumptions and fundamental concepts, and suggests applications of theory to theoretical decision types. Implications for research, theory, and practice are discussed. (Author/JH)

In a study, few subjects accepted empirical evidence of nonconservation of discontinuous quantity and weight. These findings were interpreted as support for the organismic-developmental claim that lower forms of reasoning are transformed into structurally more advanced forms. (Author/ED)

Two studies examined certain discrepancies which have been considered important evidence in support of interpersonal comparison (value-adherence) explanations of group induced shifts in choice. (Editor)

The new OCCUPATIONAL OUTLOOK HANDBOOK is reviewed, with specific mention of employment opportunities in selected areas, handbook organization, complexity of career planning in times of expanding economy, the importance of education, and outlook assumptions. (AG)

The various no-grade evaluational options recently introduced on the academic scene are grading in disguise. (Author)

Points out an emerging confluence of apparently unrelated forces that eventually may join in a serious threat to the practice of selective admissions. Focuses on several paragraphs in the recent Newman Report on graduate education; the ruling in DeFunis vs Odegaard, a case decided by the Washington State Supreme Court; and certain provisions of…

Student Profile Section (SPS) responses from 176 black university students were examined for nonintellective academic prediction potential. Fourteen SPS variables yielded significant correlation coefficients with both first semester GPA and cumulative GPA. It was concluded that nonintellective factors did exist and were useful predictors of…

This study proposes a method for reporting findings that combines true positives and true negatives to measure total accuracy of predictions. A retrospective study of dangerous behavior among criminally insane offenders in Colorado confirmed the findings of Cocozza and Steadman (1974) regarding the predictive validity of the Legal Dangerousness…

This paper reviews recent summaries of research studies concerned with which indicator(s) best predict success in college chemistry. The conclusions of major studies and summaries are presented and the author's summary conclusions and recommendations are presented. The major findings/recommendations are that fndings already completed be…

In a program of research conducted for the Scottish Council for Research in Education, students' test scores together with background information such as Verbal Reasoning Quotient and father's occupation were compared against performance in the Scottish Certificate of Education "O" Grade examination taken at age 16. (Editor/RK)