Found that the following variables significantly affected the students' performance of a task involving science skills: type of rule and number of attributes used in the prediction task, and whether the student was given a verbal description of the rule to be used. (MLH)

Summarizes demographic data, and discusses implications of the federal amendments that permit most American workers to stay on the job until age 70. Journal availability: see EA 510 950.

Nine methods of smoothing double-entry expectancy tables (tables that relate two predictor variables to probability of attaining success on a criterion) were compared using data for entering students at 85 colleges and universities. The smoothed tables were more accurate than those based on observed relative frequencies. (Author/CTM)

A 100-year scenario of the future of information technology. To achieve inexpensive, high-speed, and small computers, new techniques are likely to replace silicon technology. The ultimate computer might be biological and patterned on DNA. Future computers will require information rather than store it. Light wave communication will broaden…

Studies are summarized on the efficacy of two common treatments for hyperactivity: the Feingold diet and stimulant drugs. Also reported are two attempts at the identification of hyperactive children, one through their paradoxical response to stimulants, and the other through physical anomalies. (SJL)

A study involving 732 preschoolers was conducted to determine the extent to which children identified on preschool readiness test as "high risk" for development of learning disabilities demonstrate low achievement in basic school skills by the time they have completed several years of elementary school. (SBH)

In this study, mothers predicted their preschoolers' prereading skills beyond chance expectation. (MKM)

Describes an epidemiological study of the patterns and correlates of survival after early (age 62 to 64) and normal retirement (age 65). Death rates were significantly elevated during the first, fourth, and fifth years after early retirement. Pre-retirement health status was the only significant predictor of survival after early retirement.…

Teacher ratings of 187 children (4 to 15 years old) seen at a guidance clinic were compared to interview-based ratings of social adjustment 9 to 15 years later. (Author)

Projected trends regarding space exploration extrapolated from papers and conversations at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference are presented. (MR)

Explores how planning for allocation and placement of institutions of higher education in the Soviet Union can be improved. Factors which should be considered in locating universities and technical institutes include territorial distribution of labor, growth in the volume of production, and changing patterns in the need for specialists in various…

This index evaluates the status of the environmental concerns of the past year and suggests ways to deal with these situations. Environmental areas addressed are wildlife, air, minerals, water, forests, soil, and living space. Each is discussed with respect to current legislation, standards, and problems. (MA)

Social studies grades were predicted from a variety of affective and cognitive predictor variables on a sample of eleventh grade students. Significant relationships were found for both types of variables. A measure of motivation toward education predicted grades nearly as accurately as any of the cognitive variables. (Author/JKS)

Advocates the planning of the future of science education rather than predicting or describing it (after the occurrence). Future planning is based on the assumptions that: (1) alternatives are possible; (2) some aspects of the future are discernable in the present; (3) to some extent the future can be directed; and (4) intelligent decisions are…