Size of family of origin is more strongly related to wife's than husband's life chances. The mediating effect of allocation preferences on the number of siblings/life chances relationship carries through to the number of siblings/number of live-births relationship. (Author)

Classification equations from birth certificate information accurately identified approximately 80 percent of the first-grade children who scored one standard deviation or more below the mean on both a measure of intellectual competence and a measure of adaptive behavior. (Author)

Interviews were held with 88 mentally retarded institutionalized adults (ages 18 to 30) in order to identify types of verbal and nonverbal behavior that are associated with making positive or negative impressions on others and that therefore might be priority targets for communication training efforts. (Author)

Presents data from a study of Princeton chemistry students that supports the idea that students themselves are better predictors of their academic performance than are teaching assistants. The implications of this finding for making tutoring recommendations are discussed. (CS)

Eighth-grade scores for 140 females and 115 males on three cognitive tests and the Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitudes Scales were used to predict mathematics grades 1-3 years later. In addition to mathematics achievement, significant relationships were confirmed for spatial visualization and confidence in learning mathematics. (Author/GDC)

Presents validation, from a communication perspective, for semantic differential scales designed to measure attitude toward an object. The favorableness of sources' verbal behavior about an object was related to sources' attitudes toward the object. Receivers accurately estimated sources' attitudes and the favorableness of sources' verbal…

A study to determine if a relationship existed between performance in a business simulation and the ability of groups to make probability assessments revealed several significant relationships on correlations between the two variables. (LLS)

Scores on the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and grade point average were investigated as predictors of performance in an educational media course. Neither were recommended as tools for predicting course performance. (GDC)

Concludes that humanism in teachers is related to reporting fewer unresolvable conflicts with pupils and that pupil control ideology and subsequent teacher control behavior (the referring of pupils to the administration for disciplinary action) are related. (Author/IRT)

Biographical, tempermental, and aptitude data were collected for two semesters from students enrolled in an introductory computer class. Only college grade point average and general intelligence contributed significantly to the model. (Author/IRT)

The usefulness of the Myklebust Pupil Rating Scale (PRS) in diagnosing learning disabilities was studied in 516 third- and fourth-grade school children. It was concluded that the PRS is stable across populations and over time, and that no single subscale was sufficient to predict the total score. (PHR)

Specific applications of early recollections (ERs) within group settings are introductory exercise, an index of social interest, a kind of guided imagery, and an aid in intensive therapy. Additional uses of ERs include vocational decision making, pictorial representations of group perceptions, and a measure of group member's personal growth.…

This Delphi study suggests that women may not need affirmative action programs after the year 2000. Minorities, however, might not be fully integrated for an additional 30 years. (Author)

Discusses the implications on public education of declining enrollment, one-parent families, and working mothers. (MLF)

Traces the path of weather forecasts from the time they are made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration until the time they are received by the public through the mass media. The purpose of the article is to provide geography teachers with basic information on weather forecasts, interpretation of forecast terms, and indications…