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Download full textGillis, Harold Leon, Jr. – 1981
High school students in grades 8-12 participated in an experimental three-weekend camping and construction project designed to measure the personal and social growth potential of a non-risk, challenging, generative-based experience. Twenty-three students were matched and randomly assigned to either an experimental group or a control group.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Camping, Construction Programs, Educational Research
Newsom, Ron; Foxworth, Linda – 1979
A project was initiated to (1) determine internal-external orientation of a group of adult basic education-general educational development (ABE-GED) clients; (2) collect demographic data on the clientele; (3) assess functional abilities of clients in math and reading at enrollment and after three months; (4) analyze results of objectives to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Age
