Describes how a statistical analytical technique (the Q-sort) can be used to derive ideal educational objectives for high school geography courses. Discusses implications for curriculum development in geography. Journal availability: see SO 507 226. (DB)

Although the courts have established that there are several ways of determining adverse impact of hiring practices, the criteria the courts have used to consider cases seem to be primarily the source, scope, and sufficiency of statistics offered as evidence. (Author/IRT)

Research on relationships between serum cholesterol, heart rate, and exercise in age-and sex-specific groups suggests a positive relationship between fatness on the one hand and serum cholesterol and heart rate, but eliminating the effect of body fatness results in no relationship between heart rate and serum total cholesterol. (MB)

Examines the long range political consequences of the student protest movement using indicators of student and adult political activism and socialization developed to explain the adult left wing politics of students who attended universities in one of the major centers of civil rights protest during the early 1960s. (Author/JM)

Examines the long-range political consequences of the civil rights movement before 1965. Focusing on a group of activists who participated in demonstrations, a theoretical causal model is developed and tested using exogenous and intervening variables to explain adult radical political attitudes and leftist behavior. (Author/JM)

Examines the supply of labor of married women in the labor force. A "one-period, lifetime model, which is intended to explain long-run behavior" of women is quantified using data from the 1970 census. (Author/JM)

Explores government adult basic education (ABE) statistics in one fundamental area, the present level of illiteracy in the United States, concentrating particularly on changes in illiteracy levels during the 1960's. (WL)

Examines the effect on earnings of variations among individuals in postschool human investment (namely, in work experience after the completion of schooling). Data from the Johns Hopkins Retrospective Life History Survey are analyzed to make possible a reformulation of Becker and Chiswick's econometric model to allow for additional variations…

Critically examines the portions of Arthur Jensen's books that concern Barbara Burks' 1928 study of adoptive families. Findings are that Burks' sample was highly selective, that her environmental measures were limited, and that Jensen has misrepresented the content and implications of her study. It is also shown that Jensen's estimates of…

Describes a study that estimated earnings functions separately for males and females within a large enterprise in the United Kingdom in order to evaluate the impact of sex discrimination on salary differences compared to the impact of other differences in employee characteristics. Available from: Cambridge University Press, 32 East 57th Street,…

Author states that "...quantitative studies have demonstrated the impossibility of understanding the American Revolution without understanding the society in which it emerged. Combining the quantitative studies of early American social structure with the exploration of popular ideology or culture should...make possible a sense of how revolutionary…

This article demonstrates, through a case study, the use of pre-existing subgroups as moderator variables to increase the predictive effectiveness of educational research. Use of moderator variables in this study increased the amount of explained variance by 460 percent. (JDS)

Explores the ramifications of the wealth tax as an alternative funding source for elementary and secondary education in Florida by constructing and quantifying a wealth tax base for the state of Florida and each of its school districts. (JG)

Because the importance of a journal is determined by overall quality of the articles it carries, and because an article's influence can be measured in terms of the frequency with which it is cited, the number of citations per article is clearly an appropriate index of its impact. 57 journals were analyzed. (Author/JM)

Discusses a simple technique for stochastic resource planning that, when computerized, can assist educational managers in the process of quantifying the future uncertainty, thereby, helping them make better decisions. The example used is a school lunch program. (Author/IRT)