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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
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Dubow, Eric F.; Huesmann, Rowell L.; Boxer, Paul; Pulkkinen, Lea; Kokko, Katja – Developmental Psychology, 2006
The authors examined the prediction of occupational attainment by age 40 from contextual and personal variables assessed during childhood and adolescence in 2 participant samples: (a) the Columbia County Longitudinal Study, a study of 856 third graders in a semirural county in New York State that began in 1960, and (b) the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Outcomes of Education, Prediction, Achievement
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Conrad, Daniel; Hedin, Diane – Child and Youth Services, 1982
Summarizes findings of a national study of 27 programs and concludes that educational programs which are experientially based can have a significant positive impact on the social, psychological, and intellectual development of adolescents. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Adventure Education, Cognitive Development
Glenn, Christopher M. – 2003
Premised on the view that students with more years of Montessori education (MEY) would possess to a higher degree those qualities emphasized in the Montessori environment and that Montessori students would be as successful as students more traditionally educated, this report presents the final assessment for the Longitudinal Assessment Study,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Creativity, Early Childhood Education, Educational Attitudes