Presents a method to improve client classification. Reviews clinical prediction models and statistical prediction issues. In classifying clients for remedial services, utility of the prediction scheme depends on gains accrued by its use over program base rates and relative cost. This assumes that differential treatments parallel diagnostic…

This document addresses the problems facing researchers who are involved in evaluating worker potential across the life-span, including that most evidence focusing on differential job ability levels within age classifications has come from empirical investigations concerning functional age. A critique of the functional age approach is presented…

This paper examines the changing demographics of American society and the impact of these changes on higher education. Discussions include a historical background of early American demography, the building and expansion of the population base, and census changes through various generations of the baby boom years and beyond. Next, the report…