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Hanson, Thomas; Dietsch, Barbara; Zheng, Hong – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2012
Character education has become one of the fastest growing reform movements in K-12 education today, partially in response to unacceptable levels of student misbehavior and inadequate endorsement of good character values (Williams 2000). Between 1993 and 2009, 36 states passed laws mandating or recommending some aspect of character education in…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Education
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Person, Ann E.; Moiduddin, Emily; Hague-Angus, Megan; Malone, Lizabeth M. – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2009
Character education programs are school-based programs that have as one of their objectives promoting the character development of students. This report systematically examines the outcomes that were measured in evaluations of a delimited set of character education programs and the research tools used for measuring the targeted outcomes. The…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Research Tools, Research Methodology, Personality
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Wigley, Stephen C. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2004
This paper reports the results of an empirical study of psychological morale in further education students. Success in A-level examinations is dependant on a number of factors, not only intellectual ability but also morale and other personality factors. This investigation aimed to assess the influence of these factors in the 16-18 years age range.…
Descriptors: Tests, Personality, Investigations, Adult Education
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Ruby, Allen; Doolittle, Emily – National Center for Education Research, 2010
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and the Division of Violence Prevention in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collaborated to conduct a rigorous impact evaluation of programs aimed at improving students' behavior. For this evaluation, such programs were termed Social…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, School Activities
Stricker, Lawrence J.; Ross, John – 1962
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a Jungian-oriented self-report inventory which classifies people into dichotomous categories along four scales: extraversion-introversion, sensation-intuition, thinking-feeling, and judgment-perception. Introduced in 1942, the scoring and items have changed after several items analyses. Form F contains 51 phrase…
Descriptors: Creativity, Factor Analysis, High Schools, Higher Education
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Lounsbury, John W.; Gibson, Lucy W.; Sundstrom, Eric; Wilburn, Denise; Loveland, James M. – Journal of Education and Work, 2004
An empirical test of Munson and Rubenstein's (1992) assertion that 'school is work' compared a sample of students in a high school with a sample of workers in a manufacturing plant in the same metropolitan area. Data from both samples included scores on six personality traits--Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Openness, Emotional Stability,…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, Manufacturing, Grade Point Average, Personality Traits
McCubbin, Hamilton I., Ed.; Thompson, Elizabeth A., Ed.; Thompson, Anne I., Ed.; Fromer, Julie E., Ed. – 1998
This book is the first part of a two-volume collection devoted to issues facing racial and ethnic minority families. These chapters grew out of a conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, which focused on the strengths and resources of minority families. They represent an effort to share knowledge that can be used for the design of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Cultural Differences, Ethnic Groups
Brian, Sally; And Others – 1981
Part of a multi-campus comparative evaluation of National Second Step Programs (NSSP), this technical supplement contains data collected from a sample of 800 students, graduates, and faculty of the first six accredited second step programs in nursing education as well as copies of survey instruments used in the study. It consists of five sections.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Employer Attitudes