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Byrnes, Deborah A., Ed.; Kiger, Gary, Ed. – 1992
This collection of essays seeks to prepare educational theorists and practitioners to accept diversity as a fundamental element in all educational decision making. The collection defines diversity broadly to include differences along racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, ability, socioeconomic, language, and gender lines. Themes running throughout…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Diversity (Student)
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Smetana, Judith G. – Child Development, 1984
Social interactions regarding moral and conventional transgressions were observed among two toddler groups. Each of 16 day care center classrooms, eight serving 13- to 27-month-olds and eight serving 18- to 40-month-olds, was observed for three 45-minute sessions. Implications of results concerned the developmental origins of distinctions between…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Check Lists, Child Caregivers, Day Care
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Steinberg, Laurence – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Examines the impact of pubertal status and timing, independent of chronological age, on the family relationships of adolescents in 204 families with a firstborn child between the ages of 10 and 15. Measures included adolescent and parental reports of closeness, confict, and autonomy and assessments of adolesents' pubertal status and pubertal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Check Lists, Conflict, Parent Child Relationship
Holmlund, Helena – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2008
When studying different types of returns to education, educational reforms are commonly used in the economics literature as a source of exogenous variation in education. The Swedish compulsory school reform is one example; the reform extended compulsory education throughout the country, in different municipalities at different points in time. Such…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Compulsory Education, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment
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Coie, John D.; Dodge, Kenneth A. – Child Development, 1988
Results generated by peers, teachers, and unbiased observers converged in some behavioral domains and diverged in others. All three sources provided similar pictures of the relation between aggression and status, although observations of third grade boys did not yield sufficient frequencies of aggression to allow meaningful conclusions. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aggression, Check Lists, Child Neglect
Woods, Diane E., Ed. – IEEIR Interchange, 1991
Two articles explore possibilities for collaboration between American and Asian researchers addressing disabilities in a worldwide context. The first article, by Mike Miles, is titled "Using Action-Oriented Disability Studies in Pakistan." It focuses on how information can be disseminated in informal, nontraditional (non-Western) ways.…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Check Lists, Child Development, Community Programs
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Plucker, Jonathan A.; And Others – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1996
This study evaluated the reliability and validity of a battery of instruments based on Multiple Intelligences theory, including teacher checklists and performance-based assessment activities developed for the identification of talent in culturally diverse and/or low-income kindergarten and first-grade students. Acceptable reliability but…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Alternative Assessment, Check Lists, Cultural Differences