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Nancy S. McIntyre; Lindsay F. Rentschler; Brianne R. Tomaszewski; Bonnie R. Kraemer – Remedial and Special Education, 2025
This longitudinal follow-up study of 129 autistic young adults and their parents in three U.S. states was designed to (a) investigate autistic young adults' postsecondary education experiences, (b) learn if the experiences align with their interests and if they are satisfied with them, (c) explore the educational supports and disability services…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Young Adults, Parents, Educational Experience
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Sutter, Carolyn; Ontai, Lenna L.; Nishina, Adrienne; Conger, Katherine J.; Shilts, Mical K.; Townsend, Marilyn S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
A disconnect exists between definitions of school readiness used in research and early childhood education (ECE). While researchers often discuss school readiness as a single, multidimensional construct, the majority of studies operationalize it using multiple measures rather than as one outcome. In comparison, in ECE settings a single measurement…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Factor Structure, Predictor Variables, Early Childhood Education
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Clarke-Stewart, K. Alison; Lucas-Thompson, Rachel; Weaver, Jennifer M.; Karsh, Andrea – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
Previous research indicates that children who spend many hours in early child care exhibit more externalizing behavior problems than children who spend less time in child care. Concern has been expressed regarding the cumulative effect of these problem behaviors on elementary school classes. We collected information about children's child-care…
Descriptors: Child Care, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Antisocial Behavior
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Lauderdale-Littin, Stacy; Howell, Erica; Blacher, Jan – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
This study examined relationships among behavior problems, social skills, and educational placement within a sample of children with autism spectrum disorder or ASD in public (mean age 7) and non-public (mean age 8) school settings (n = 56). Parent and teacher agreement on child characteristics ratings tended to be similar while differences…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Student Placement, Public Schools
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Rodriguez, Eunice; Rivera, Diana Austria; Perlroth, Daniella; Becker, Edmund; Wang, Nancy Ewen; Landau, Melinda – Journal of School Health, 2013
Background: With increasing budget cuts to education and social services, rigorous evaluation needs to document school nurses' impact on student health, academic outcomes, and district funding. Methods: Utilizing a quasi-experimental design, we evaluated outcomes in 4 schools with added full-time nurses and 5 matched schools with part-time nurses…
Descriptors: Diseases, School Nurses, Role, Child Health
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Orphanos, Stelios; Orr, Margaret Terry – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
School leadership has been shown to exert a positive but mostly indirect influence on school and student outcomes. Currently, there is great interest in how quality leadership preparation is related to leadership practice and improved teacher outcomes. The purpose of the study was to understand the moderating influence of leadership preparation on…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training, Teacher Collaboration, Principals
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Ricci, Leila A. – International Journal of Special Education, 2011
This study examined the reading interest and emergent literacy skills of 31 children with Down syndrome (DS) ages 7 to 13. Parents completed questionnaires on their children's interest in reading, home literacy environments, and parental beliefs about reading. Children were then assessed on their cognitive and emergent literacy skills.…
Descriptors: Children, Down Syndrome, Reading Interests, Emergent Literacy
Sanchez, Sylvia Andrea – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research study focused on the perceptions of challenges and values of higher education between first-generation and subsequent-generation male Latinos and their factors affecting academic success. According to Gandara (2009), Latinas are making advancements in higher education, being committed to continue with college, and maintaining higher…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Generational Differences, Student Attitudes, Barriers
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Duursma, Elisabeth; Pan, Barbara A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
Most research on parental bookreading has focused on mothers reading to their children. This study examined bookreading practices among approximately 800 fathers and mothers in low-income families. We looked at differences and similarities between families where both parents read frequently compared to families where only mothers read frequently.…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Family Environment, Toddlers, Parent Participation
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Ishii-Kuntz, Masako – Family Relations, 1997
Using data gathered from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans and their elderly parents (N=628), this research finds that such financial and structural factors as an adult child's income and his/her parent's need for assistance significantly influenced the frequency of an adult child's support for his/her parents. (Author/MKA)
Descriptors: Adult Children, Asian Americans, Family Relationship, Income
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Locke, Thomas F.; Newcomb, Michael D.; Duclos, Alisa; Goodyear, Rodney K. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
This study determined how multiple ecodevelopmental domains influenced dysphoria in a community sample of Latina adolescents. Risk factors tested include childhood maltreatment, parental alcohol-related problems, and polysubstance problems. Protective factors include general self-efficacy, social conformity, and family connection. Female…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Young Adults, Adolescents, Females
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Stivers, Tanya; Majid, Asifa – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2007
Social psychologists have shown experimentally that implicit race bias can influence an individual's behavior. Implicit bias has been suggested to be more subtle and less subject to cognitive control than more explicit forms of racial prejudice. Little is known about how implicit bias is manifest in naturally occurring social interaction. This…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Race, Social Psychology, Physicians