Concludes that newspaper audience interest in reading a syndicated column on anthropology is high. (RB)

Sixty-one learning disabled (LD) adolescents in four junior high schools were randomly assigned to experimental or control groups as part of an effort to teach LD students to set realistic goals so they might experience success and satisfaction in school. Ss in the experimental group made achievement contracts and predicted their performance in…

A study employing a repeated measure crossover design found that 34 preschool handicapped students performed significantly better with familiar than unfamiliar examiners on tasks requiring a high level of symbolic mediation. No such differential performance was found on items demanding a low level of symbolic mediation. Differential performance in…

The lexical development of four infants was recorded by their parents in diaries. In a selective imitation situation, individualized for each child, the responses of the children were compared with semantic predictions made on the basis of one of 14 hypothesized rules, and with the semantic alternatives available from the child's lexicon. It was…

This study attempted to provide a way to identify disadvantaged students at the junior college and to determine what data could be used as a basis for developing a curriculum to help them. Two measures of cognition, School and College Ability Test (SCAT) and Florida 12th Grade Battery, and three measures of the affective domain, Social Reaction…

Statistical analyses of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) were made to determine its validity as a predictor of success for engineering students. In addition, the study attempted to statistically differentiate students completing engineering programs at Purdue from those who transferred to other fields and/or did not continue in other…

The predictive validities of various SVIB academic interest scales were assessed with first semester freshman males at the University of Massachusetts. Both the Rust and Ryan and the Campbell and Johansson scales contributed significantly, albeit modestly, to a multiple correlation coefficient consisting of high school rank and scholastic aptitude…

The number of years of high school science taken by students was selected as a criterion upon which to base prediction of first year college success as measured by the cumulative college grade point. A sample of 498 students, who were enrolling in college for the first time, were selected from the student body at Upper Iowa University. The number…

This evaluation was made to determine whether the SCAT-verbal cutoff scores were adequate for placement in the four different English courses. To accomplish this, 223 students for whom both the scores and the English grades were available for the four courses were chosen. The total number of students (381) completing the courses were used as the…

An analysis of "F" and "I" grades given at Harcum Junior College during the last five academic years reveals a long-term trend of substantial stability. The average percentage of "F" grades given was 3.7 percent (range= 2.8-5 percent). The average percentage of "I" grades given was 2.1 percent (range= 1-3…

The general solution to the problem of calculating school enrollments at time (t-1) necessary to meet predetermined graduation or manpower targets at time (t) is derived and examined. The solution, which is obtained by minimizing the squared discrepancy between the given graduations and those predicted by the enrollments, requires the unique…

Public school systems infrequently project their financial outlook beyond the coming year. Yet, financial projections over a multiyear period are necessary if the financial "crises" that frequently occur in public organizations are to be avoided. This paper discusses the importance of financial forecasting and planning, the development…

The use of quantitative predictive models has become increasingly important to urban and regional planners within the past decade. The increasing sophistication of urban and regional information systems and of hardware devices has helped to make possible the acceptance and application of models by planners. The sources contained in this…