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Yee, Albert H. – J Exp Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Generalization, Hypothesis Testing, Phonetics
Pierce-Jones, John; And Others – 1967
This pretest report on the National Head Start Evaluation Project gives data on ethnicity and ages of children enrolled in four Head Start centers in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, and describes the present status of evaluation at these centers. Completed pretests, proposed evaluation instruments, and available pretest data are presented.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Testing, Early Childhood Education, Intelligence Differences
Peer reviewedJensen, Larry; Murray, Michael – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
Kindergarten and first grade children participated in a training program designed to facilitate moral development. Stories that stimulated discussion of solutions to moral issues were read to children in the treatment group. Children in the treatment group, compared to controls, improved significantly in three of four specific areas tested.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Moral Development
Peer reviewedHurster, Madeline – Journal of the American College Health Association, 1970
This survey reports on 30 colleges and universities some of which offered mandatory health courses and some of which did not. Results of health knowledge and its personal importance was tabulated for schools, geographic locations, sex differences and grade levels. Tables are included. (CJ)
Descriptors: Colleges, Family Life Education, Geographic Distribution, Health Education
Peer reviewedBergan, Alene; And Others – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Descriptors: Grade 4, Individual Differences, Intelligence Tests, Performance Factors
Peer reviewedAnnis, Linda F.; Annis, David B. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1979
The effect of college course content on students' growth in critical thinking was investigated. Students enrolled in various philosophy courses and a non-philosophy control were pre- and post-tested for critical thinking. Only the logic course had a consistent impact on certain aspects of critical thinking. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Course Evaluation, Critical Thinking, Ethics
Download full textSpence, David J.; And Others – 1995
Reading science text is not simply a process of translating printed symbols into meaning; it involves the interaction of the reader's prior knowledge, beliefs, concurrent experience, and the text in a sociocultural context to construct new meaning and understanding. The purposes of this study were to: explore the associations between metacognition…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Constructivism (Learning), Cultural Context, Grade 7
Tiffany, Jeanne; Tollefson, Nona – 1986
This study field tests and evaluates the Parenting Questionnaire, an instrument designed to assess parental attitudes and behavior, based on the child-raising theories of Dreikurs and Dinkmeyer and the Adlerian model for parent study groups. Dreikurs and Adler stress the purposive nature of children's behavior or misbehavior, and teach parents to…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Child Responsibility
Koepke, Sharon Margaret – 1973
The relationship between physically and psychologically stressful experiences and the anxiety and self concept of 33 male and 11 female participants (aged 16-38 years) in a 23-day Colorado Outward Bound (OB) course was analyzed. It was hypothesized that the effects of the OB experience would: be the same for male and female participants; alter…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anxiety, Correlation, Experiential Learning
Millward, Robert E. – 1973
Investigating the effect of a resident outdoor experience on the attitudes of 300 sixth grade students exposed to two different teaching methods, students from the Brownsville School District in Pennsylvania were randomly assigned to a week-long camp experience. Teachers in the control group (N=3) were given 20 hours of training in outdoor…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Concept Formation, Doctoral Dissertations, Environmental Education
Blumberg, Fran; And Others – 1986
In the 21st century, the population will need to possess basic skills in the areas of communication and higher problem-solving as well as have scientific and technological literacy; however, results from assessments by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have indicated weak student performance in the area of thinking skills,…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
System Development Corp., Santa Monica, CA. – 1972
The second of two reports on a national evaluation of the immediate effects of Project Head Start describes the characteristics of children, families and programs in samples of full-year classes operating in 1966-67 and 1967-68. No control groups were used; comparisons were made within the Head Start sample to see what kinds of classroom…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Affective Measures, Age Differences, Classroom Observation Techniques
System Development Corp., Santa Monica, CA. – 1972
The first of two reports of a national evaluation of the immediate effects of Project Head Start describes the characteristics of children, families and programs in samples of full-year classes operating in 1968-69. The study identifies changes associated with Head Start participation and the conditions under which these changes were greatest. No…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Affective Measures, Age Differences, Classroom Observation Techniques
