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Strickland, Shawna DeMarie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Many studies have investigated relationships between self-directedness and various indicators of success in university coursework but few have explored the evolution of self-directedness that may or may not occur in these settings. This study sought to discover how self-direction in learning of participants in an undergraduate healthcare ethics…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Readiness, Course Evaluation, Longitudinal Studies
Changes Over an Eight- and a Nine-Year Period in the Readiness Level of Entering First-Grade Pupils.
Mitchell, Blythe C. – 1974
Data from national entering first-grade populations of 1964 (N=12,225) and of 1972/1973 (N=4275/6653) show an 11-point increase in median raw score on the 102-item Metropolitan Readiness Tests. The increase is shown to be greater at the lower than at the higher ranges of the score scale, with the first quartile increasing by 13 points, the third…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grade 1, Learning Readiness, Longitudinal Studies
Geddes, Lucille M. – 1997
This study compared the academic progress of children who had been recommended for and attended a Readiness program with those children whose parents had declined the Readiness program placement for their children. Participating were 215 students chosen over an 11 year period who had been recommended for a Readiness program and a comparison group…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Followup Studies
Elkin, Lorne – 2001
The Class of 1979 project is a longitudinal study of the consequences and implications of variability in school readiness at the age children enter school. The study followed the development of 129 children since 1979, the year in which they entered Kindergarten. Phase one and two of the research covered the years between 1979 and 1991. Phase…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attitudes, Elementary School Students
2002
This symposium on adult learning and human resource development consists of three presentations. "Adult Learning Principles and Concepts in the Workplace: Implications for Training in HRD" (Margot B. Weinstein) reports on findings from interviews with restaurant employees who reported that training practices using adult learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adult Students