NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Attainment of Developmental Tasks by Adolescents with Visual Impairments and Sighted Adolescents
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pfeiffer, Jens P.; Pinquart, Martin – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2011
This study compared the achievement of developmental tasks by 158 adolescents with visual impairments to that of 158 sighted adolescents. The groups did not differ in the fulfillment of 9 of 11 tasks. However, those with visual impairments were less successful in peer-group integration and forming intimate relationships. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Intimacy, Adolescents, Developmental Tasks
The Interaction between the Family and the School in the Socialization of the Individual
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bikmetov, E. Iu. – Russian Education and Society, 2008
In their capacity as very important institutions in the socialization of the individual and as subjects of the process of education, schools and the family perform shared social functions, which include that of "instruction" (the transmission of information, knowledge, abilities, and skills); that of "upbringing" (the shaping…
Descriptors: Socialization, Personality, Family School Relationship, Educational Attainment
An Evaluation of Youth Empowerment Tobacco Prevention Programs in the Southwest
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Marr-Lyon, Lisa; Young, Kathleen; Quintero, Gilbert – Journal of Drug Education, 2008
Evaluation research pertaining to the development of assessment instruments that fully capture the facets of empowerment prevention perspectives among youth are sparse. With funding from the American Legacy Foundation, the University of New Mexico Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, in partnership with the New Mexico State…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Empowerment, Evaluation Research, Substance Abuse
Reviving Perry: An Analysis of Epistemological Change by Gender and Ethnicity among Gifted High School Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Thomas, Jerald A. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2008
This study examines development along Perry's intellectual and ethical scale among three successive graduating classes of students identified as gifted and talented in mathematics and science. Perry posits that intellectual development proceeds from a basic dualism through nine stages ("positions") and culminates with a sense of personal identify…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Developmental Stages, Questionnaires, Student Characteristics
Lessons Learnt from a Secondary School Sex Education Program in Portugal
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sousa, Ana Paula; Soares, Isabel; Vilar, Duarte – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2007
Based on a developmental framework, a study was conducted in Portugal in two groups of youth in terms of relevant aspects related to adolescent psychosexual development: one group participated in an Experimental Project of Sex Education and Health Promotion during high school, whereas the other did not receive any formal sex education in school.…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Health Promotion, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Foreign Countries
Transitional Schools. Report of Evaluation.
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Schnelker, Diane; And Others – 1986
A three-year study was conducted to evaluate the implementation of the Transitional School Model in the Des Moines, Iowa, Independent Community School District. The model was designed to provide early adolescents in grades 6-8 with a more comprehensive bridge between elementary school and high school by emphasizing students' physical, emotional,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives