The failure-success ratio for older adults returning to complete university programs is three to one. Only 25 percent of unprepared adults make a C average. The cost of running remediation programs and duplication of efforts with other institutions raises questions for universities trying to be all things to all people. (Author)

Describes a reworking of a Title 1 program in Lake Forest, Delaware schools, to eliminate first grade retention due to substandard level of reading ability. The process included: (1) making reading fun; (2) new reading material; (3) parental participation; (4) scheduled reading time; (5) reading requirements; and (6) teachers' aides in classrooms.…

For the past two decades, Japanese management practices have attracted a great deal of attention in the United States. Quality Circles (QCs) have been considered to be one of the most promising approaches to improving American workers' productivity. QCs are defined as small groups of employees from the same work area who meet to identify, analyze,…

The types of test score interpretive information considered useful to failing examinees were studied through interviews with Educational Testing Service (ETS) staff members. Research literature on interpretive information for failing test takers was reviewed, and procedures currently used at ETS were determined. Managers of 23 testing programs…

Psychologists, by the very nature of their work, are faced with practicing at the borders of their competence, for two reasons. First, they may encounter certain clients or situations for which they are only minimally prepared; and second, as human beings they are subject to the same destructive effects of untoward life events as their clients,…

Management development programs have become almost a corporate must, many of the efforts to improve managerial capabilities fall far short of their goals. Fourteen proposals made here, which range from personalizing the program to building an ethical system, show how the structure and process of any development effort can be improved. (Author/BP)

THE INVESTIGATION STUDIED THE FACTORS WHICH DETERMINED THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF SOCIAL REINFORCEMENT AND NONREINFORCEMENT FROM ADULTS ON CHILDREN'S PERFORMANCE. IT HAD BEEN ASSUMED THAT SOCIAL REINFORCEMENT MIGHT HAVE TWO EFFECTS, ONE DERIVED FROM ITS INCENTIVE VALUE AND THE SECOND DERIVED FROM ITS POTENTIALITY FOR REDUCING ANXIETY. THE…

This is a record of testimony of the Petitioners for the Community School Board District 30 against the Board of Education of the City of New York. The Community School Board is seeking intervention concerning compliance with the court's decree on the civil rights case of Aspira of New York, Inc. vs. the Board of Education of the City of New York.…

A "failsafe" technology is presented based on a new unified theory of needs assessment. Basically the paper discusses fault tree analysis as a technique for enhancing the probability of success in any system by analyzing the most likely modes of failure that could occur and then suggesting high priority avoidance strategies for those…

Research on teacher survival rates during the first three years of the teaching experience indicate that scores on preadmission interviews are a useful predictor of survival in the early teaching years. (MJB)

Effects of the motives to approach success and to avoid failure were studied in 60 fifth- and sixth-grade boys and girls of low, middle, and high levels of test anxiety. Findings indicated that anxious children perform poorly due to motivational difficulties rather than to learning deficiencies. (Author/JMB)

The effects of success, failure, and neutral instructional sets on the task performance of 90 retarded female adults were studied under varying conditions of self-awareness. (Author/CL)