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Astin, Helen S.; Antonio, Anthony Lising – About Campus, 2000
Study analyzes longitudinal data on students to identify specific college experiences that influence particular outcomes that are indicative of character. Results suggest that the campus culture of religious institutions provides a setting in which character-enhancing activities are valued, while the culture of academically selective campuses may…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Students, Educational Environment, Educational Experience
Tal, Amos – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1982
A study examines environmental and personality factors as predictors of academic achievement among kibbutz and urban high school students. Results of a comparison of personality factors indicate that kibbutz students are more restrained, reserved, adaptable, and conforming. The higher scores of city students on intelligence tests may stem from a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Collective Settlements, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
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Merkens, Hans; Classen, Gabriele; Bergs-Winkels, Dagmar – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1997
Tests a theoretical model for the constitution of the self among adolescents in a cross-cultural, comparative study. Examines the impact of schools and families, as institutions and networks of interaction, on the self of adolescents. Based on data from three sample surveys from an East/West study of adolescent students. (DSK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Environment
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Way, Niobe; Robinson, Melissa G. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2003
Examined the influence over time of demographic variables and perceived family and friend support and school climate on changes in psychological adjustment among Black, Latino, and Asian American adolescents from low-income families. Found a greater increase in self-esteem in students reporting more positive perceptions of school climate and,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Asian Americans, Blacks
Smart, John C. – 1996
Academic departments exert a powerful influence on students by recruitment of distinctive personality types into academic disciplines, and by a socialization process in which departments reward students for the display of attitudes in accordance with the norms of their disciplines. This study examined the differential patterns of student growth…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Educational Environment, Higher Education
Wylie, Cathy; And Others – 1996
The longitudinal "Competent Children" project is intended to discover what impact children's family resources and early childhood education experiences have on the development of children's cognitive, social, communicative, and problem-solving competencies. This report details findings of the first stage of the project. The report…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Childhood Needs, Competence, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Wylie, Cathy – 1996
The longitudinal "Competent Children" project is intended to discover what impact family resources and early childhood education experiences have on the development of children's cognitive, social, communicative, and problem-solving competencies. This booklet summarizes the main findings of the first stage of this project. The report…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change, Child Development, Childhood Needs
McDaniel, Ernest D.; And Others – 1973
Patterns of cognitive, affective, and social growth of elementary school children are described and the school and home variables which influence such growth are identified in this longitudinal study. This final report presents the final instruments and the interpretive data associated with them. The study permits the tracing of developmental…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Development, Educational Environment