A mathematical model of a soccer-league competition results is set up and investigated using simple randomization techniques. The hypothesis that winning the league championship was purely luck was statistically tested. (JP)

Rational and non-rational decision-making models of occupational choice are described. The Blau model provides an alternative to these. This model contains an occupational set of factors and a set related to the individual. Research supporting its conceptual utility and activities illustrating its pragmatic utility are discussed. (EAK)

The University of Minnesota has pioneered in establishing future-oriented courses and curricula and now ranks as one of the world's leading centers of future studies. Article describes the Minnesota experience and offers suggestions to other institutions that want to futurize themselves. (Author)

This paper focuses on the simulation games developed at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A., which deal with a variety of social processes or situations. The paper, given before game play, identifies some of their characteristic features and discusses the educational implementational implications of the ways in which they are seen to…

PERT: A management tool for planning and controlling events and activities necessary for the completion of a project. (SN)

Paradigms developed from process and content choices are: (1) scientific, discipline centered, (2) humanistic, discipline centered, (3) scientific, practical-problem centered, and (4) humanistic, practical-problem centered. Each is examined for its logical implications for the role of the social studies teacher. (Author/VW)

When an engineering researcher changes from his work on things to research on people, he faces an array of new ethical questions, and a new view of scientific objectivity must be developed for the study of man and society. (IR)

Article is based on an evaluation report of a creativity workshop for disadvantaged children conducted in 1971. (Authors)

The process of making and testing value judgments is conceived as a modified form of problem-solving in the naturalistic, relativistic tradition of John Dewey and the latter-day experimentalists. (Author)

Before judging a student's diagram correct or incorrect, the mental associations made by the student between his diagram and the problem should be known. This is a follow-up to the author's article in the November 1970, Arithmetic Teacher." (RS)

Using a man/habitat model, secondary teachers can help students view relationships between habitat problems and local government agencies whose decisions affect their habitat. The unit also involves students in learning about concepts germane to global education, like interdependence, conflict, and change. (RM)