This study was designed to explore the relationships between the perception of professors' instructional practices and international students' study anxiety. The dominant goal of this research was to investigate whether the professors' use of active and collaborative learning techniques reduces the study anxiety of international students. The…

This chapter introduces the concepts of the human capital economy and the changing demography of the United States; it explores federal, state, and institutional policy choices relative to them. It points out consistent failures to address the imperatives of these concepts.

Examined correlates of education, income, and poverty among a national sample of elderly Black adults (N=581). Analyses indicated gender, marital status, age, employment status, urbanicity, and region were all important predictors of these measures of socio-economic status. Highlights demographic differences and overall depressed socio-economic…

This population report describes young persons between the ages of 14 and 24 born during a period of high birth rates that followed the end of the Second World War. It includes data on their numbers, racial composition, school enrollment; educational attainment; marital status, family composition, fertility, migration, voting behavior, labor force…

This report was prepared jointly by the Bureau of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is one of a series about the social and economic conditions of Negroes in the United States, and brings together the statistics available for the period between 1960 and 1970. During the 1960's Negroes continued to make substantial economic and…

This work summarizes statistics from previous reports on native Hawaiians done for the four counties in Hawaii. The data provided were extracted from the Office of Economic Opportunity's 1975 Census Update Surveys of Oahu, Hawaii, and Maui and from the 1974 Kauai Socio-Economic Profile done by the Center for Non-Metropolitan Studies of the…

States vary in the proportion of their populations who pursue higher education. A study that assesses the relationship between a state's economic and social characteristics and its citizens' participation in higher education is discussed. (Author/MLW)

School attendance, an element at the center of educational history, not only uncovers important aspects of day-to-day history of schools, but also reflects a broad social, economic, and demographic structure of the times in which patterns of school attendance record family decisions about formal education. Rather than studying school registers to…

The purpose of this study was to generate hypotheses which could feasibly be studied through the use of a data bank on Indian children. The study also produced some findings concerning the educational population (ages 6 through 18) of the Papago, Pima, and Maricopa tribes. An extremely high percentage of Indian children remain in school through…

Examines the characteristics of landed immigrants (permanent settlers) from Asia, and explores their settlement, adaptation, and integration experience in Canada. It suggests that access to Canadian land does not always translate into equal opportunity in the economy and society, but notes that Canada may be more successful at assimilating Asian…

Presents results of a comprehensive employment survey of Association for Educational Communications and Technology members which covered work setting, job classification, education required for present position, educational level attained, length of employment, annual income, demographic data, basis of employment, and sources of funding for…

Current Population Survey data indicate that nonmetropolitan earnings rose slightly during 1990-96, metropolitan income declined, and nonmetro income inequality lessened. Nonmetro gains were notable in the South and Midwest and for women, Blacks, and Hispanics. Earnings declined sharply for urban, but not rural, high school dropouts. The urban…

The purpose of this study was to bring together, for planning purposes, the published data concerning the general and educational characteristics of the population of Berrien County, Michigan. The study was limited to data found in the United States Census and documents of the Berrien County Planning Commission. The study is divided into three…

Presents state-level educational statistics on the elderly population for 1960, 1970, and 1975. Describes an economic perspective that incorporates the level of educational attainment as a strategic variable in an explanatory model of social and economic behavior. Presents several tables of state- and national-level educational statistics. (Author)

"Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups" examines the educational progress and challenges of students in the United States by race/ethnicity. This report shows that over time, the numbers of students of each race/ethnicity who have completed high school and continued their education in college have increased.…