Today's young people--the Net Generation--have grown up with technology all around them. However, teachers cannot assume that students' familiarity with technology in general transfers successfully to pedagogical settings. This volume examines various technologies and offers concrete advice on how each can be successfully implemented in the second…

The document is a summary of the conference proceedings for the 23rd Annual Farmingdale State College Teaching of Psychology Conference held on March 20-21, 2009 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Tarrytown, New York. The conference featured a keynote address by Dr. Jeffrey Nevid on Reaching and teaching the millennials: Helping today's students become…

Aging patterns in WAIS-R Block Design Test (BDT) were examined cross-sectionally and longitudinally. One sample (35-80 years, n=1000) was assessed in 1988-1990 and five years later (836 returned). An independent cohort-matched sample (n=974) was assessed at Time 2 to control for practice effects. Relations between BDT, gender, and education were…

Background: In people with ID there is more morbidity than in the general population, including cardiac diseases. Dutch figures on this subject are scarce. Methods: Descriptive study of the prevalence of cardiac diseases in 436 residential clients in Echt, the Netherlands, and comparisons between men and women, age groups, and level and aetiology…

A quick review of introductory textbooks reveals that while gerontology authors and instructors introduce some aspect of demography and epidemiology data, there is limited focus on age adjustment or other important epidemiology rates. The goal of this paper is to reintroduce a variety of basic epidemiology strategies such as incidence, prevalence,…

Suggests and presents evidence that the South's recent change over from net out migration to net immigration represents the reversal of an 100-year trend. (Author/AM)

To examine the number of subjective age categories in the post-high school portion of the American lifecycle, adult respondents sorted cards describing people in terms of major life events and classified them according to age. A nonlinear decrease in the number of age distinctions occurred in the late portion of middle age (46-65 years). (Author)

Kindergarten, eight grade, college, and adult subjects were presented with a list of 43 adult occupations. They indicated for each whether it should be performed by a male, female, or either. In each age group except kindergarten there was a significant sex difference with females being more liberal. (Author)

The Task Force to Develop Standards and Goals for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention was initiated in the Spring of 1975 by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) of the U.S. Department of Justice. The efforts of this task force resulted in nine reports, each one dealing with one aspect of the Juvenile Justice System. This…

WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS WERE OBTAINED FROM 48 CHILDREN, FOUR FROM EACH AGE GROUP FROM EIGHT THROUGH 11, ASSIGNED TO THREE IQ GROUPS--RETARDED, NORMAL, AND SUPERIOR. USING SEVERAL OF THE FLESCH CRITERIA (WHICH USE NUMBER OF SYLLABLES, AVERAGE SENTENCE LENGTH, AND NUMBER OF DEFINITE WORDS AS INDICES), COMPOSITIONS WERE SCORED FOR DEFINITENESS OF STYLE.…

This article discusses emotional, psychological, and social aspects of aging. (RC)

Reports on a survey of British television viewing. Results indicate that younger viewers are more likely to watch a higher proporation of programs containing violent material than older viewers. (JMF)

The median age of Americans has increased from 20.0 to 29.4 in the last six years, and, according to the Federal Bureau of the Census, it will reach 32.5 by the year 2000. Discusses the consequences for education of this rising change in student age and of having older teachers. (Author/RK)

The five papers included in this article comprise the proceedings of a Gerontological Society symposium entitled "The life cycle, aging, and death: interdisciplinary perspectives." Each contributor considers this topic in the context of dialectical intersections from his own theoretical framework. (BD)

A dramatic shift in the age distribution of college students occurred between October 1972 and October 1976, according to reports released by the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce. Outlines the large increase in the percentage of older persons attending college, i.e., those over 25, as compared with those under 25. (Author/RK)