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Perna, Laura W.; Leigh, Elaine W. – Educational Researcher, 2018
Over the past decade, but especially in the past few years, programs with a "promise" label have been advanced at the local, state, and federal levels. To advance understanding of the design, implementation, and impact of the many different versions of emerging programs, policymakers, practitioners, and researchers need an organizing…
Descriptors: Classification, College Programs, Multivariate Analysis, Policy Analysis
Klassen, Robert M.; Ang, Rebecca P.; Chong, Wan Har; Krawchuk, Lindsey L.; Huan, Vivien S.; Wong, Isabella Y. F.; Yeo, Lay See – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2009
In this study, we explore academic procrastination and associated motivation variables in 612 adolescents from Canada and Singapore. Few studies have explored adolescent procrastination and no previous studies have investigated adolescent procrastination using a cross-cultural framework. Singaporean adolescents reported higher levels of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Cultural Studies, Self Efficacy, Structural Equation Models
DeVoe, Jill Fleury; Bauer, Lynn – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
Student victimization in schools is a major concern of educators, policymakers, administrators, parents, and students. Understanding the scope of the criminal victimization of students, as well as the factors associated with it, is an essential step in developing solutions to address the issues of school crime and violence. This report uses data…
Descriptors: Weapons, Crime, Bullying, Criminals
Family Decision Making: Benefits to Persons with Developmental Disabilities and Their Family Members
Neely-Barnes, Susan; Graff, J. Carolyn; Marcenko, Maureen; Weber, Lisa – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2008
Family involvement in planning and choosing services has become a key intervention concept in developmental disability services. This study (N = 547) modeled patterns of family decision making and assessed benefits to persons with developmental disabilities (DDs) and their family members. A latent profile analysis identified 4 classes that were…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Developmental Disabilities, Multiple Regression Analysis, Multivariate Analysis
Chand, Krishan – 1984
A comparative survey of 46 Alaska school superintendents and 520 in the nation at large reveals that nearly all the superintendents in both groups consider their relationship with the school board to be important and spend a considerable amount of time on that relationship. A positive correlation emerges between the importance superintendents…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Board Administrator Relationship, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
Nye, Barbara A.; And Others – 1992
Researchers on the Lasting Benefits Study (LBS) are tracking students who participated in Tennessee's K-3 Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio (STAR) Project (1985-89) as they continue into later grades. Project STAR was a statewide experiment conducted to demonstrate the effects of reduced student/teacher ratios (15:1) on student achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Abler, Rose M.; Sedlacek, William E. – 1985
Inspired by the increasingly important role of computers in vocational preparation and the practical value of determining curriculum and program needs on the basis of student vocational interests, an investigation of the differences in computer attitudes among students depending on their Holland type and their sex was initiated. Data were…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Freshmen, Computers, Higher Education

Ogilvy, Carole M. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1990
Compares the effect of weak, flexible, and rigid family structures on the cognitive development of 61 Scottish and 40 Pakistani school children in Glasgow, Scotland. In a problem-solving test, children from flexible environments outperformed those from either weakly or rigidly structured homes. This difference was reflected in the school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary School Students
Hamrick, Jo Anne; Goldman, Renitta L.; Sapp, Gary L.; Kohler, Maxie P. – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2004
This study examined educators' capabilities to identify symptoms of adolescents at risk for suicide when influenced by the adolescent's race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Participants were 882 regular and special educators in a southeastern state who completed mailed questionnaires presenting hypothetical vignettes of adolescents at risk for…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Questionnaires, Special Education Teachers, Socioeconomic Status
Student Typologies as a Means of Characterizing Individual Differences among Low and High Achievers.
Kowalski, Patricia S. – 1987
A method of graphing multivariate data, called the star plot, is very useful in educational contexts because it provides teachers and guidance counselors with information not present in unsupplemented student achievement data. The utility of the method can be seen in analysis of data from a study of factors related to the problem-solving ability…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Graphs, High Achievement

Danton, J. Periam – Library Quarterly, 1987
Examination of whether annual book budgets have kept pace with demands compares academic library book budgets in Germany and the United States in the mid-20th century with budgets of earlier years, taking into account annual book and serial production; costs of books; and the number of courses, faculty, and students. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Books, Budgets, Comparative Analysis

Martinez, Michael E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1992
Summarizes comparisons of self-reported interest by gender and experimental condition for middle school students (n=101) who performed scientific experiments under conditions designed to vary across difficulty levels, social contexts, and scenarios of fantasy to realism. Findings indicate that boys were more attentive to aspects of experimental…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Locus of Control, Middle Schools, Motivation

Hanna, Gila – Ontario Mathematics Gazette, 1990
A study analyzed data from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement survey of 13 year olds from 20 countries to examine gender differences in mathematics achievement. Multivariate analysis indicated differences varied from country to country and a significant difference in favor of boys in geometry achievement.…
Descriptors: Algebra, Arithmetic, Females, Foreign Countries
Peterson, Karen L. – 1983
A study identified the variables affecting the vocational choice of college women. During the research project, a 97-item instrument entitled the Work Interest Questionnaire (WIQ) was developed and administered to 437 undergraduate female students enrolled at a large Midwestern university. The subjects were selected based on their varying fields…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Decision Making, Females
Wholeben, Brent E.; Sullivan, John M. – 1982
This report provides an extensive discussion of the use of criterion referenced, mathematical modeling procedures to determine which budget reductions minimize reduction in the quality of educational programs. Part I, "Evaluation of Potential Budgeting Roll-backs under Educational Fiscal Crisis," explains the basic design of multiple…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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