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Academy for Educational Development, Washington, DC. National Adult Literacy and Learning Disabilities Center. – 1995
This guide is intended to help the literacy practitioner in the identification of adults with learning disabilities. These adults have worked diligently for a year or more to improve comprehension skills, writing and spelling, or work skills, yet, have made little progress. The role of screening as only the first step in a process involving a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adults, Auditory Perception
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Saracho, Olivia N. – Journal of the Association for the Study of Perception, 1983
Reviews research on the cognitive style of Mexican-American students by identifying and describing several important components including field-dependence-independence and cultural influences. Extensive cross-cultural research has provided insufficient evidence to formulate generalizations on the influence to cognitive style on school achievement.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Style, Cultural Differences, Field Dependence Independence
Yogev, Sara; Brett, Jeanne – 1984
This paper offers a conceptual framework for the intersection of work and family roles based on the constructs of work involvement and family involvement. The theoretical and empirical literature on the intersection of work and family roles is reviewed from two analytical approaches. From the individual level of analysis, the literature reviewed…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Dual Career Family, Employed Parents, Family Attitudes
Totusek, Patsy F. – 1979
Little has been done to identify the communication needs of nurses. The development of a model to use in examining their communication behavior can be an important first step in identifying those needs. The proposed model identifies four members of the staff nurse's role-set: patients, doctors, family members, and other nursing personnel. Each…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Interaction
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Petronio, Richard J. – Criminal Justice and Behavior, 1982
Tested the degree of association between probation officers' sent and received roles and role behavior in four juvenile courts. Found the role communicated to probation officers by their superiors was predictive of the role the probation officers perceived but not of the role as enacted with juveniles. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Juvenile Courts, Organizational Climate
Solomon, Kenneth – 1978
The literature on attitudes of health workers toward the elderly suggests three variables as contributing to the elderly patient's perception of helplessness in the health care setting. First, the health worker may age-stereotype the elderly person as dependent, low in competence, and unlikely to respond to treatment. Secondly, the disparity in…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Counselor Attitudes, Health Personnel, Helping Relationship
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Dillard, John M. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1980
Discusses the unique career behavior characteristics of Blacks related to extant career development theories and social factors. Situational factors are related to career choice behavior of Blacks (socioeconomic background, work ethic, career values, aspirations, and expectations). (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Culture, Blacks, Career Choice
Wiseman, Richard L. – 1980
Noting that one means of better understanding the nature of cultural differences is to elucidate the cognitive differences between members of differing cultures, this paper examines Alexander Luria's sociohistorical theory of functional cognitive systems. The paper first describes Luria's notion of functional systems, the crux of which postulates…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Bressan, Elizabeth S.
Inherent in all sport, dance, and movement activity are implied patterns of interaction between and among all participants and the relevant characteristics of their environment. Through these patterns children learn various structures of acceptable social behavior as defined by the roles-oriented value system of our culture. Eight different…
Descriptors: Athletics, Behavior Patterns, Children, Dance
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Covey, Herbert C. – Gerontologist, 1981
Describes continuity theory, as emphasizing the interaction between individual characteristics and the social structure. Presents three propositions concerning social role restrictivness and maintenance in older adults. Considers psychological, sociological, physiological, and educational influences on elder's social behavior. (JAC)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Development, Aging (Individuals), Behavior Patterns
Hungerford, Curtiss R. – 1982
The Ehrhardt Training Seminar (E.S.T.) program is but one example of a self-help technique based on the premise that people will improve their personal lives and professional effectiveness to the extent that they can "break through the act" to discern the real self which is full of capacity and power when released from fear and constraint. Many…
Descriptors: Administrators, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Individual Development
Graham, Maud – 1981
Information processing, beliefs, and motivations can be coupled with the principle of causal attributions to provide a framework for assessing the causes to which individuals attribute their own behavior. For example, an elderly man who forgets to buy something at the store presents himself with an identity based on cultural stereotypes--in this…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Communication Research
Yoder, Jan D.; Hollander, Edwin P. – 1980
Psychological literature seemingly provides contradictory answers to the question of whether women and men are equally effective as leaders. There are generally two approaches used to answer this question: assign males and females the role of leader, keeping certain extraneous factors constant, and then compare leader or group effectiveness; or…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Environmental Influences, Evaluation Criteria