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Download full textMcIntire, Walter G.; Coladarci, Theodore – 1988
Using data from the High School and Beyond longitudinal study, the relationships among gender and rural, suburban, or urban setting and academic ability were examined. Data reflect the population of high school sophomores and seniors in 1980. When the influence of socioeconomic status was controlled, gender and setting each explained little or no…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, High School Students, High Schools, Longitudinal Studies
Bell, Teri L.; And Others – 1991
This study examined attitudes of prospective special educators regarding urban, suburban, and rural teaching environments. A total of 588 student members of the Council for Exceptional Children representing 49 universities were surveyed. The questionnaire, composed of 67 questions, examined student reasons for being in special education. It also…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Hiltner, John; Bair, C. William – 1983
A study to determine the health status of older persons and to analyze the support provided to them by community health and social service agencies in Ohio is reported. As a cooperative effort of the Gerontology Program and the Medical College at Bowling Green University, the project specifically sought to conduct a health needs assessment of…
Descriptors: Community Services, Gerontology, Health Needs, Intercollegiate Cooperation
Taharally, L. C. – 1989
A controlled study involving 60 randomly selected 4- to 5-year-old children from Guyana (South America) assessed whether providing the opportunity for fantasy play to children in nursery schools that do not provide such opportunity would have an effect on the children's level of symbolic, language, and cognitive ability. Subjects included 20…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries, Language Skills
Owings, Thomas G. – 1975
The total economic impact of a college on its community includes the benefits the community receives and the costs it incurs. The benefits can be classified into the tangible dollar expenditures of people associated with the college and the intangible benefits of human resources development. Costs often include alteration of neighborhoods and…
Descriptors: Colleges, Community Benefits, Economic Factors, Economic Research
Shipman, Virginia C. – 1977
This study investigated the interrelationships among status, situational and process variables describing the child's home environment and the relationship of these variables to the child's concurrent cognitive-perceptual performance. Parent interview and child test data collected for 1212 predominantly low-income urban and rural study children (8…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Dietrich, Katheryn Thomas – 1975
A comprehensive look is taken at the rural-urban variation in extended familism among a segment of the population for which extended familism purportedly is especially salient: lower and working class black Americans. The study is guided by the general hypothesis that rurality/urbanism affects extended familism when nonecological variables are…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Ecological Factors
