The purpose of this study was to provide the New York State Museum (NYSM) with a profile of its audience during 1966. A total of 1,544 persons were interviewed. Visitors came from seven counties, with Albany accounting for 58%. A comparison was made with Royal Ontario Museum on the basis of group size, sex, age, educational level, occupation, and…

Hamilton College has developed an imaginative program for young alumni that organizes activities geared to young adults' tastes and interests. Since its establishment, the college has had large increases in giving by this group. Nationwide, other colleges are raising substantial funds by targeting young graduates. (MSE)

Based on an analysis of the age, size, percent black, and occupational income differential in 32 southern cities, the findings show that age is still the strongest predictor of residential segregation. (Author)

This reply to Horn and Donaldson is previous critique of Schaie and Baltes' Research and writings on intelligence in adulthood and old age has two parts: the first discusses theoretical perspectives and the second makes observations on the empirical data base. (Author/AM)

Presents a detailed critical appraisal of the evidential support for the book's conclusions about sex differences. Criticisms cover data base quality, over-representation of younger age groups, problems of stereotypes, over-emphasis on the null hypothesis, and slippages in the evaluational sequence. (MS)

This booklet provides data on Alaska's population, economy, health, education, government, and natural resources, including specific information on Alaska Natives. Since 1960, Alaska's population has tripled and become more diverse, more stable, older, less likely to be male or married, and more concentrated. About 69 percent of the population…

A question crucial to this research and to the teacher of music appreciation is whether directed listening to one kind of music will bring about significant musical growth that would be reflected in the students' ability to make aesthetic judgments about other music. (Author)

Senior citizens can perform as well as their younger counterparts when in a classroom. (MF)

Describes how the aging of the American population is extending the range of educational tasks, increasing the responsibilities of educational agencies, and bringing new agencies into the educational scene. (Author/LF)

Seventy per cent of a random sample of 350 faculty of a small state university returned questionnaires revealing agreement on teaching as the most important faculty role, with character-building second, and research third. However, both younger faculty and those in social and natural science reversed the order of the latter two roles. (Author/DB)

Reviews research on two ways of practicing values clarification and value therapy. Values clarification research is derived from its widespread practice, whereas value therapy is derived from experimental research. A need to consider how these approaches work with different age groups is indicated. (Author)

Results showed that first-grade children were less likely to follow a task-based fair-play rule than were third graders when one of the other children was larger and older. When dealing with same-size age-mates, however, first graders were no less likely to follow a task-based rule than were third graders. (Author/CM)

College students have been shown to consistently overestimate the drinking of their peers. As a result, social norms approaches are effective in correcting these misperceived norms to reduce alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems. In this review of literature, the authors critically evaluated the effectiveness of personalized normative…

Background and aims: In order to develop arithmetic expertise, children must understand arithmetic principles, such as the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction, in addition to learning calculation skills. We report two experiments that investigate children's understanding of the principle of inversion and the relationship between…

The study habits of adult college students over age 25 were compared to a group of younger students at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. The younger students were matched with the older groups on four characteristics: sex, major field of study, semester credit load, and class standing. All 56 participants were undergraduate students…