The prediction that differences in incomes of high school and college graduates will not change is tested by applying standard statistical procedures to data describing actual income differences. Data from the United States Bureau of the Census describe annual incomes of men twenty-five years old and older during 1956-75. Report 1 displays results…

Factors that may influence teacher academic expectations include socioeconomic level, sex, level of academic and intellectual functioning, background information, and test results. In a study conducted by Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968) on teacher expectations and pupils' intellectual development, it was found that, when teachers expected certain…

Indepth interviews were conducted with parents of moderately and severely/profoundly retarded children on the following topics: the nature of the child's retardation, services used or expected to be used, how the current program was chosen, satisfactions and dissatisfactions with these services, and the effect of having a mentally retarded child…

It is most difficult to believe that the American economy can soon return to the stable growth rates that were enjoyed from 1958 to 1973. Factors that contribute to a slow-growth economy include changes in the age of the average citizen, pressures for larger expenditures for armaments, pricefixing by oligopolies, rising raw materials prices,…

Least squares and Bayes methods were used in a cross validation study conducted for comparison purposes. The study applies to situations with the following conditions: predictor data are given on the same scales; criterion data may be given on different scales; and it is necessary to pool data even though criterion scale differences exist. Such a…

The College Level Examination Program (CLEP) had a substantial impact upon the Florida State University System. Over 42% of the beginning freshmen in 1972 took CLEP examinations and over 38% received credit for passing one or more examinations with a score above the national 50th percentile. These freshmen received an average of 27 quarter-hours…

A person's beliefs about the future are very powerful in shaping his or her actions. The issue of what image of the next 10 years is most appropriate for educators today can be examined metaphorically with differing visions of what education can become. By using a series of predictions and by consolidating forecasts from futures research,…

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY TRAITS OBSERVED EARLY AND LATER IN LIFE IS EXPLORED IN THIS PAPER. IN PARTICULAR, THE POSSIBILITY OF IDENTIFYING CHILDREN DURING NURSERY SCHOOL YEARS WHO LATER SHOW SIGNS OF MALADJUSTMENT IS EXPLORED. A SAMPLE OF 130 CHILDREN WHO ATTENDED A PRIVATE NURSERY SCHOOL BETWEEN 1945 AND 1950 WAS SELECTED.…

These individualized, self-paced student materials for a postsecondary-adult level course for weather specialist are one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to vocational instruction and curriculum development in a civilian setting. The three-volume course offers weather personnel knowledge needed to…

Written in the first quarter of 1980, this paper describes economic conditions at that time and makes projections concerning the future. The paper attempts to present a brief look at the same issues surveyed in the longer report EA 013 118. After warning that economic conditions are hard to assess and still harder to predict, the author asserts…

This report concerns first-year activities of a study of alternative futures. The study attempted to identify major trends and possible events that could influence vocational education in the 1980s and to analyze policy issues likely to be associated with them. Following the introduction, chapter 2 addresses procedures followed in each of three…

This technical report documents the development and initial empirical testing of a practical method for estimating the capacity of Air Force operational units to conduct on-the-job training (OJT). The method is based on a conceptual model of OJT capacity that describes the complex interrelationships among the level and quality of mission…

This dissertation examined characteristics of educationally high risk and high potential children from kindergarten through first grade. It was designed to determine prospectively the validity of behaviorally based instruments administered during kindergarten for predicting pupils' first grade achievement. Subjects, 94 boys and 91 girls, were…

In August of 1978 the Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) published an annotated bibliography on Education Needs Projection and Rural Development; this synthesis paper follows that bibliography and is intended to relate some of the useful applications derived from the survey of the literature. Five papers are included in the synthesis. The…

Leading the teaching profession toward the best possible instructional programs for children and youth will be difficult because our concepts of teaching must change fundamentally. The intensity of the school must be enormously increased in light of other more potent factors determining what a child learns and becomes. In the current era…