Examines how forecasting of educational development in the Soviet Union can be coordinated with forecasts of scientific and technical progress. Predicts that the efficiency of social forecasting will increase when more empirical data on macro- and micro-processes is collected. (Author/DB)

Based on data from the New York Longitudinal Study, childhood behavioral problems were found to be related to both early temperament and parental behavior, in that first-year temperament scores predicted mild (but not more severe) problems. (Author)

This article is concerned with the future as a field of study. Disillusionment, anxiety, and expectation are examined as three factors that presently affect our approach to future studies. An annotated bibliography lists 50 sources including science fiction works, critiques of the present, and second generation works. (MA)

Reports results of an experiment to measure the impact of course grade incentive on student performance in college level economics courses. Findings indicated that students scored higher when the TUCE was a graded course requirement. (Author/DB)

Post high school expectancies of high school students were compared to their high school grades in a longitudinal study. The results clearly indicate that the causal ordering is from grades to expectancies, rather than the reverse. (Author/JKS)

Two culture free intelligence tests, the D-48 Test and the IPAT Culture Fair Intelligence Test, are valid predictors of achievement test scores for grade levels 8 and 9. Highly significant correlation coefficients are observed between ethnic memberships and each of the culture free tests and the SRA Achievement Test. (Author/DEP)

In one of the three major presentations at the 54th Annual CEFP/I Conference, public mistrust in the schools is discussed and Pino states that we should be looking at the year 2000, and working ourselves back to the present. (Author/MLF)

Provides a computer program in BASIC language by which a least squares approximation of a straight line may be determined. (CP)

General issues in manpower planning are outlined, Canadian efforts are reviewed, and suggestions for directions to be taken are offered. Focus is on the major questions of how and what manpower planning is done. (LBH)

Discusses the circumstances under which an individual may be legally confined to a mental institution. This includes the definition of "dangerousness", the attitudes of psychiatrists and civil libertarians, and a compromise solution between those viewpoints. (Author/RK)

An evaluation was made of the behavioral status of nine institutionalized developmentally disabled adolescents at the point of their entry into a community school program and after a 3-4-month follow-up period. (Author)

To determine antecedent conditions which may contribute to specific learning disorders, the records of 432 children referred to the Pupil Appraisal Center were reviewed. (SBH)

Examines a statistical model in which the users of an online system continually update their estimated probability of success, and quit or continue the search according to the expected utility of each action. The implications for search strategies are discussed. (Author/EM)

Responses to a questionnaire indicated that special education teachers (N=85) consistently underestimated the positiveness of regular class teachers (N=131) in such areas as their willingness to teach handicapped students, their knowledge of where to obtain information about handicapped students, and their confidence about skills in implementing a…