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Thomas, Jeffrey – Humanities, 1990
Presents data from the National Education Longitudinal Study (1988) concerning attitudes and academic experiences of eighth graders. Includes academic requirements for different geographic regions; number of hours spent watching television and recreational reading; emphasis given to English topics; time spent on English and social studies…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Selection (Students), Curriculum, Educational Research
Download full textCenter for Education Statistics (ED/OERI), Washington, DC. – 1988
This bulletin reports the findings from a 1987 nationwide school survey of arts and humanities instruction conducted by Westat, Inc. for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. (The data are representative of approximately 15,250 operating school districts in the United States, 75% of which have…
Descriptors: Art Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research, Elementary Education
Grandy, Jerilee – 1984
This study analyzed existing Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores and selected student background variables to answer the following seven questions about students planning to major in the humanitiess and related social sciences: (1) Have SAT and GRE scores for these students declined? (2) In what ways have…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Ethnic Groups
Allen, Robert C. – 1999
The role of the social sciences and the humanities in a knowledge-based economy was examined in a comparative study of the income and employment outcomes of secondary-, postsecondary-, and graduate-level study programs in technical fields, the social sciences, and the humanities in 1991-1996. Special attention was paid to the following areas: the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bachelors Degrees, Case Studies, College Graduates
