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Szabó, Ildikó – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Reading and understanding texts of all kinds form a basic competence for participating in social and cultural life and for being successful on a job. Although most European adolescents have adequate reading competences at their disposal by the end of school, about a quarter of them cannot meet the minimal standards. The urgency of this societal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Literacy, Research Projects
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Berger, Raymond M.; Rose, Sheldon D. – Journal of Gerontology, 1977
A behavioral program to train elderly nursing home patients (N=25) in interpersonal skills was systematically developed and evaluated. On a behavioral measure of responses to situations that had been included in training, the Skill Training program was superior to the control conditions. However, learning failed to generalize to novel situations.…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Institutionalized Persons, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship
McMillan, James H. – 1978
This research analyzes the results of a program to enhance the self concepts of junior high students. Subjects were 80 students identified as having low self concepts. They participated in an eight-week program to develop skills in personal and social awareness. Pretest posttest scores on the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory indicated that…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Body Image, Communication Skills, Educational Innovation
Aspy, D. N.; Roebuck, Flora N. – 1974
Over a period of three years, the National Consortium for Humanizing Education worked with teachers and students in two states to test hypotheses drawn from a model in which student outcomes (including good mental health) were seen as the results of a learning process occurring between individuals rather than as the product of an institutionalized…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Competence, Learning Processes
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Jones, Vern; Wolff, Bernard R. – College Student Journal, 1976
The study was designed to provide an informal, structured, off-campus retreat to enable college students to gain knowledge about one another and themselves as a means of developing improved cooperation with and concern for each other in their college methods classes. Data indicated positive group feelings after the retreat. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Group Dynamics, Group Experience, Higher Education
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Nathanson, Jeanne H., Ed. – OSERS News in Print, 1992
This theme journal issue focuses on current activities of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services which stress inclusion of students with disabilities in the mainstream. It begins with a message from the Assistant Secretary, Robert R. Davila which examines the full meaning of an "inclusive" education. Next, Barbara…
Descriptors: Agencies, Blindness, Career Development, Change Strategies