Part of a series of needs assessment studies conducted at the Kent State School of Library Science, this study reports the results of a survey concerning library employment opportunities in Ohio for individuals with graduate degrees in library science. The three main objectives of the study were: (1) to estimate the number of professional and…

One of a series of pre-apprenticeship training modules, this self-paced student training module deals with the ways in which expectations of events and reactions to them either limit individuals or open up possibilities for them. Provided in the module are the following: cover sheet listing module title, goals, and performance indicators;…

This document addresses the problems facing researchers who are involved in evaluating worker potential across the life-span, including that most evidence focusing on differential job ability levels within age classifications has come from empirical investigations concerning functional age. A critique of the functional age approach is presented…

The study organized a large data archive gathered on 718 children with severe language disorders over 8 years. Descriptive data were categorized as demographic/background, physical/developmental, social/personality, and language/academic characteristics; and then analyzed for the total group, by sex, and by three age cohorts, allowing a broad…

The purposes of the study were to (1) compare the academic performance of students entering the School of Business Administration from within the University of Washington with those transferring from another institution, and (2) equate the two groups statistically on admission criteria if significances were found. Transcripts were obtained for 229…

To investigate relationships among reading scores, college academic performance, degree expectations, self-assessed skills, and retention, data from "The Nelson-Denny Reading Test" and background information from "The New Student Survey" were correlated with the freshman year academic performance and enrollment status at the beginning of the…

One-hundred-seventy-six male and 116 female college freshmen took part in a questionnaire study of sex differences in attribution of achievemnt. Achievement was operationalized as grade point index, a performance measure of significance to the subjects, where success-failure feedback is contingent on one's own performance. The best predictor of…

This case study describes the application of an analytical library network model to data collected during April 1977. Models are developed for describing the intralibrary processing activities encountered at each of the resource libraries in the study, and alternative routing policies for referring requests among resource libraries are analyzed. A…

This guide is intended to introduce educators to the kinds of instructional changes necessary to provide students with adequate preparation for the changing world of the future. The guide is made up of three units divided into eight independent modules that can be used in individual study, workshops, university courses, and so on. These modules…

A multi-faceted study followed up 800 children originally administered SCREEN, a comprehensive early identification screening battery. Ss were given an individually administered diagnostic battery: The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA), The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) Verbal Scale, The Beery Visual Motor…

This study investigates why researchers have trouble determining when learners acquire inverted and statement forms of yes/no questions. Researchers have difficulty designing studies on this subject because this area of language is not fully rule-governed or systematic. The choice of the form may be based on two speakers' foreknowledge of each…

Changes in men's and women's societal roles and in their personality characteristics might be expected to lead to corresponding changes in the personal relations between sexes. Male (N=140) and female (N=95) college students, classified as sex-typed, cross-sex-typed, androgynous, or undifferentiated on the basis of their Bem Sex Role Inventory…

THIS STUDY EXAMINED "TALENT LOSS" FROM INADEQUATE EDUCATION IN THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF 1,698 HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS FROM 10 SCHOOLS CONSTITUTING A SAMPLE OF THE STATE WERE STUDIED IN RELATION TO SUBSEQUENT COLLEGE ATTENDANCE. STUDENTS RESPONDED TO A PERSONAL DATA FORM, THE COLLEGE IMAGE INDEX, THE SCHOOL AND…

THIS PROJECT WAS DESIGNED TO FIND MEANS OF PREDICTING THE POSTSCHOOL EMPLOYMENT SUCCESS OF EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED ADOLESCENTS. TWO HYPOTHESES WERE--(1) THERE IS A POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POSTSCHOOL SUCCESS IN EMPLOYMENT AND REALISTIC VOCATIONAL PLANS, AND (2) THOSE EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED IN WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAMS WILL HAVE MORE…