The present paper describes an attempt to establish a paper and pencil test battery for improving predictive efficiency in the selection of supporting services personnel at Montgomery County Public Schools and a report on the validation of such a procedure. (Author)

Suggestions on how lessons on exploring global interdependence through data can be used in the classroom are provided. (DE)

A distinction is drawn between public policy issues which are specific to time and place, and the kind of moral dilemma used by Kohlberg which is more general and universal. It is hypothesized that the same type of reasoning will be revealed by both. (Editor)

Author analyzed several art education texts for their congruence between practice and theory. (Editor/RK)

Infrared remote sensors, plus photometric interpretation and digital data analysis are being used to record the stresses on air, water, vegetation and soil. Directly recorded photographic information has been the most effective recording media for remote sensing. (BT)

Describes a study of the impact of trial court cases on the authority of University of Arizona administrators between 1963 and 1972. Forty-three cases were classified by subject area and analyzed to determine what percentage of each type of case limited, legitimized, expanded, or had no effect on administrators' authority. (JG)

The relation in schoolchildren of duty and efficacy to trust is the principal topic of this study. (Author/RK)

Describes procedures for identifying stimuli in the natural environment whose presence was associated with altered probabilities for both the initiation and persistence of noxious responses. (Author/SDH)

After declining steadily for more than a century, the number of Americans working for themselves has begun to stabilize. Data regarding distribution by race, sex, and age as well as by occupation and industry are tabulated for the period 1967 to 1973, and cyclical relationships analyzed. (MW)

In this paper an attempt was made to examine the thesis of Nicholas Hans (a further development of Weber's thesis) on the relationship between religious affiliation and educational achievement using the Soviet Union as an example. (Author)

Two new experimental operations were used to distinguish between auditory and phonetic levels of processing in speech perception: the first based on reaction time data in speeded classification tasks with synthetic speech stimuli, and the second based on average evoked potentials recorded concurrently in the same tasks. (Editor)

A confluence model is developed that explains the effects of birth order and family size on intelligence. (Editor)

The issue of power in exploratory single group repeated measures analysis of variance is explored under the condition of heterogeneous correlations across the repeated measures trials. Tables developed from 13 real and hypothetical data sets (70 cells) show how well both univariate and multivariate power is estimated under a variety of conditions…