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Huang, Denise; Leon, Seth; La Torre, Deborah; Mostafavi, Sima – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2008
Researchers and policymakers are increasingly interested in the impact of afterschool programs on youth development. Even though numerous studies have investigated the impact of afterschool participation on academic outcomes, there is limited research on the differential impact of afterschool programs based on students' participation rate. This…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Student Participation, Program Effectiveness, Educational Testing
Card, Josefina J. – 1977
In 1960, Project TALENT gathered demographic, cognitive, and socio-psychological data from a nationwide sample of high school students (N=375,000). An investigation of the antecedents and consequences of adolescent childbearing for young parents was conducted with all adolescent childbearers in the ninth and twelfth grade cohorts for whom 5-…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Birth, Cohort Analysis
Hillman, Kylie J.; Marks, Gary N. – 2002
Four Australian cohorts (born in 1961, 1965, 1970 and 1975) were studied between 1980-2000. The life transitions study focused on these three traditional markers of adulthood: (1) moving out of the parental home; (2) establishing an intimate relationship; and (3) buying a home. Incidence of these transitions was analyzed in terms of their…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Children, Attrition (Research Studies), Cohort Analysis