The study aimed to correlate the performance of Pohnpei Campus freshman students in the College of Micronesia-Federated States of Micronesia during the fall semester 2009 to students' socio-demographic characteristics, parents'/guardians' socio-demographic characteristics, and school characteristics. The Student Survey Questionnaire gathered data…

Because most of the approximately 100 stress-challenge programs exclusively serving delinquent youth are funded partially or wholly by public funds and therefore require evaluation, a need exists for a comprehensive model which evaluates not only program outputs, but also program operations and inputs. The feasibility and flexibility of a…

Contemporary children must deal with many family problems that children 20 years ago never had to face, including divorce, parental separation, death, working mothers, and economic status. To determine how well current basal reading series reflect the changing American family, the stories of four basal reading series for grades four, five, and six…