Examined variations in amounts of time preschool children spent interacting with peers and adults. Findings suggest that relationships with caregivers and peers represent partially incompatible behaviors. Follow-up study correlated free-play activity choices with later academic achievement. (PCB)

A followup study involving 180 students who participated in a senior apprenticeship program assessed the effectiveness of this program for enhancing student opportunities and encouraging interest in careers in the health professions. Data indicate that the program was useful in encouraging and tutoring students to access designated career areas…

Follow up of special education teachers (N=27) graduating from a resource/consulting teacher program found that respondents (1) were very satisfied with their training in data-based instruction (DBI) skills, (2) found the skills useful in both direct teaching and consulting teaching, and (3) were promoting the use of DBI. (Author/DB)

Eight extremely gifted (IQ above 180) students originally studied 40 years ago by Leta Hollingworth were interviewed. Experiences at the special Speyer school, based on an enrichment model, were perceived as having had long-term effects on their choices regarding education, career, and avocation. (DB)

Conducted follow-up study to test concurrent validity of stress-vulnerability model of suicidal ideation and behavior. College students (N=202) completed self-report measures of life stress, loneliness, depression, dysfunctional cognitions, reasons for living, hopelessness, current suicide ideation, and predictions of future suicide probability.…

Results of the second research project in the Oregon Developing Understanding of Self and Others (DUSO)-2-Revised Research Studies Series suggest that the DUSO-type programs may be imperfect tools for building a complete cognitive, affective, and behavioral structure for developing self-esteem and social skills. (ABL)

This study examines data reflecting the actual impact during the first 3 years of use of the second edition of the Anglo American Cataloging Rules (AACR2) in one library, and compares them with a 5-year projection done in 1980. Findings showed the impact was close to the projection. (Author/EM)

Results of studies of the effects of early childhood compensatory education programs indicate long-term benefits but not long-term cognitive gains. These findings may be explained by an interaction of the programs being studied at any early point in social change (rising tide) with a hypothesized intervening variable (cognitive effects). (DB)

Presents data from 2-year follow-up of 52 elementary students which indicated that in fourth grade, as in second grade, language ability, as measured by the Wechsler Kntelligence Scale for Children-Revised Vocabulary subtest, was more strongly related to Achievement Test scores among high-actives than among nonhigh-actives. (Author/NRB)

The study reports on a group of 25 educationally accelerated entrants to Johns Hopkins University. Findings support the ability of students who enter a highly selective college two to five years early to make good grades, win honors, and graduate promptly. (Author/CL)

Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of adolescent males from public schools, juvenile courts, and correctional facilities confirmed the school failure theory, the susceptibility theory, and the differential treatment theory--theories positing a causal relationship between learning disability and juvenile delinquency. Remedial instruction…

Examined the stability of expressed vocational interests of college women (N=98) after two years. Although most of the women's expressed interests were stable, some made major changes and others who had listed a choice became undecided. The results suggested that career indecision predicted changes in expressed vocational interests. (JAC)

Interviews and questionnaires completed by 24 graduates of a resource/consulting teacher program revealed confidence in their skills. Ss reported on time spent in consultation, resistance to consultation, and factors that facilitated and inhibited consultation. (CL)

Discusses the systematic approach to training, how this approach increases training impact, and how it evolved and identifies the four components of this approach, describing three components in detail--pretraining briefing sessions, review of individual training objectives, and group followup. (MBR)

A survey of 29 graduates of a learning disabilities secondary program revealed that 18 were employed, with semiskilled or unskilled occupations predominating. Positive of the program (including that 24 resultsare either former students working or being trained) are noted as well as inadequacies (such as an underrepresentation in postsecondary…