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Witkin, Belle Ruth; Altschuld, James W. – 1995
This book describes a structure for understanding and managing the process and options for gathering and analyzing data on needs. The three-phase model that forms the basis for the structure grew from both theory and practical experience in many settings. The focus is on assessing the needs of organizations rather than individuals. It is stressed…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Focus Groups
Download full textMoller, Valerie – 1994
The aim of this book is to inform teachers about the problems and opportunities raised by homework assignments particularly for black township youth in South Africa. Homework is an important aspect of the learning process and sets the scene for emergent pupil independence in education. It also provides the space for pupils to free themselves from…
Descriptors: Blacks, Family Characteristics, Family Environment, Foreign Countries
Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr.; Cook, Thomas D; Eccles, Jacquelynne; Elder, Glenn H., Jr.; Sameroff, Arnold – 1999
Based on nearly 500 interviews and qualitative case studies of families in inner-city Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), this book reveals how parents and their teenage children managed different levels of resources and dangers in low-income neighborhoods and how families and communities contributed to the development of the children. The chapters are:…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adolescents, Case Studies, Child Development
