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Peer reviewedPlomin, Robert; DeFries, J. C. – Child Development, 1983
Provides an overview of a longitudinal, prospective, multivariate adoption study of behavioral development and discusses the results of analyses of cognitive measures and environmental assessments as examples of the types of information that can emerge from a design of this sort. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adoption, Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Children
Download full textBaydar, Nazli; And Others – 1994
Data from a 20-year longitudinal study of 125 males and 126 females born to Black teenage mothers in a Baltimore hospital between 1966 and 1968 were analyzed to identify early childhood, middle childhood, and early adolescence determinants of functional literacy. All 251 subjects were interviewed in 1987, and 202 of them completed a document…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Adult Literacy, Behavior Development
