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Hill, Kennedy T. – Young Children, 1971
This article details some of the developmental patterns that characterize the child's experiences with anxiety about being evaluated. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Longitudinal Studies
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Atkinson, Brian R.; Obston, Donald G. – Journal of School Psychology, 1974
The behavior of young and adolescent male children from homes without fathers was compared to comparable groups of children from intact homes. Teachers reported no difference in academic and extracurricular participation and performance. It was concluded that, in general, the behavior of children with and without fathers is not appreciably…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Discipline
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Hayes, Edward J. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1974
The Stern indexes, used to assess the relationship between press and need as related to academic success among minority students, served as the criterion to test the hypothesis that a significant relationship exists between psychological needs and environmental presses. Results of the study suggest a confirmation of this hypothesis. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Environmental Influences
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Forness, Steven R.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
To determine whether children's observable kindergarten behavior might predict eventual educational risk, 40 of 94 children originally observed in their classrooms at the beginning of kindergarten were followed at completion of second grade. Attending behavior correlated highly with eventual risk, leading to speculation about early identification…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Attendance Patterns, Behavior Patterns
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Jackson, Robert M.; Meara, Naomi M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1977
Rural male (N=99) classified in an earlier study as low or high identification males were surveyed five years after graduation. Results indicate statistical differences between groups on occupational status and achievement, educational achievement, and optimism about the future. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Career Choice
Cooper, Harris M.; And Others – 1979
Extensive research has been conducted examining the effects of teacher expectations on student performance, revealing reasonably consistent patterns of differential behavior by teachers toward high and low expectation students. Few theories which integrate isolated research findings into a causal sequence have emerged, however. One such model…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation
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Ullman, Douglas G. – Journal of School Psychology, 1977
The frequencies of consistent, mixed, and inconsistent lateral preference patterns in 648 elementary school age children were examined. No differences were found in IQ, reading, arithmetic, or spelling achievement scores among the three groups of children, at any age or for either sex. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Dimensional Preference
Halpin, Gerald; And Others – 1979
The effect of testing on student retention was investigated to determine if it was the actual test taking, the prior preparation for the test, or the combination of studying for and taking the test which actually affected retention. Subjects were undergraduate students (N=90) who were divided into two different study conditions, i.e., test and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Nuttall, Ena V.; Nuttall, Ronald L. – 1976
Among 233 boys and 300 girls, all teenagers, it was found that traits related to achievement from the Test of Effective Academic Motivation were related to parent-child relationship factors from the Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory. For both sexes, parents who were perceived as being more Acceptant and as using less Hostile…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Child Psychology
Atkinson, Donald R.; And Others – 1978
Subjects were 46 undergraduates attending a major West Coast university who self-monitored their study behavior for four weeks under one of four conditions: (1) expectation of reactivity; (2) cumulative charting, (3) combined expectation and charting; and (4) control group (given no expectation or cumulative chart). Although definitive conclusions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, College Students
Stern, Carolyn – 1967
A Head Start research report on ways to improve academic achievement of disadvantaged children describes five projects: (1) a study of sociolinguistic variables in school learning and problem solving when classes are taught in dialect versus standard English; (2) subcultural determinants of cooperative and competitive behavior in preschool…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Dialects