The author comments on the study (EC 172 390) of post-school employment factors in a sample of special education students, noting issues not addressed, findings that should be handled with caution, and implications for transition programing. (CL)

Interviews and tests of 29 students who had scored at the two lowest levels at the end of grade 2 revealed that the preprimer group continued to show serious disability at follow-up (in junior and senior high schools) and to require help from learning-disabilities teachers. The primer group were coping academically with little special help.…

A follow-up study is described of the literacy development of 10 hearing impaired preschoolers. Results address organizational features, generativeness, intentionality, socialization, demonstrations, text, context, risk, and spelling. (CL)

Results of a project to diagnose children with perceptual difficulties in an expanded four-year check and to avert learning difficulties through preschool follow-up activities are described. (CL)

In a follow-up of 208 boys, the 16 who scored low on a prekindergarten screening battery, but were satisfactory readers four years later, were compared with 13 others low on both prekindergarten and reading measures. Fourteen of the good readers, but only one poor reader, were classified by criteria consisting mainly of biographical variables.…

Presents a followup of 61 physicians hospitalized for emotional impairment. Results showed recovery rates varied from 57 percent to 71 percent depending on calculation criteria. Interviews suggested rest, spirituality, workload modification, and colleague support were important factors in recovery. (JAC)

An examination of methodologies of 24 follow-up studies of learning disabled persons, charts sample, IQ, treatment type, follow-up length, age at follow-up, dependent measures, and results. The importance of choice of outcome variables on conclusions is emphasized, and the inability to make inferences on treatment efficacy is ascribed to…

Profile stability of the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey was assessed for profiles obtained twelve and nineteen years apart for persons between thirteen and twenty years of age at the time of first administration. Reported reliabilities ranged from .40 to .80 for various sub-samples. (JKS)

The idea of school evaluation is not new, but to be effective educational evaluation and accountability must be detached from particular schemes such as performance contracting and differentiated staffing, and must be observed in a positive light and not as a means to coerce administrators, teachers, and students. (AN)

One hundred and nineteen probationary teachers, the subject of an earlier survey, were assessed by their head teachers after one year of teaching. The implications of the findings are discussed in terms of present practice and future development. (Editor)

This article gives opinions and information from 318 public school adult education graduates on such matters as sources of information, reasons for getting a diploma, course offerings, program effectiveness, and needed improvements. Three tables. (LY)

Findings of a survey about drug and alcohol abuse education are summarized and contrasted with 5 years earlier. Notable improvements were found, reflected in required teaching hours, percentage of total required hours, elective courses, and number of affiliated clinical programs. The effect of a career teacher is also evaluated. (Author/MSE)

Major differences between the recidivist and nonrecidivist patient groups were that, of those who were successful in staying in the mainstream, more returned to school, more had at least one biological parent in the home, fewer had had a significant family member hospitalized, and they had shorter hospitalizations prior to discharge. (Author)

The results indicated a high degree of postsecondary school achievement in academic accomplishments and job status and low incidence of awards for career development. (Author/SB)