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Blakey, Millar L.; And Others – Adult Leadership, 1971
Classroom observation during an adult education course revealed that teachers behaved differently towards students they had been told were potential high-achievers--and that those students did perform well, even though the information given the teachers was false. (PD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Behavioral Science Research, Classroom Observation Techniques
Peer reviewedPiche, Gene L.; And Others – Communication Monographs, 1977
Recounts a study which provides evidence that teachers' perceptions of students' achievement potential are most seriously affected by social class information and less so by dialect-ethnicity than assumed in previous language-attitude research. (MH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Behavioral Science Research, Children
Download full textFarlow, Leslie J.; And Others – 1988
The study examined the relationship between probe and training conditions on performance of nine severely handicapped students on functional tasks in classroom and community settings. Findings led to the following recommendations to teachers: measures of student performance under natural or probe conditions should be evaluated in addition to…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Daily Living Skills, Data Interpretation, Elementary Secondary Education
Patton, James R., Ed.; Polloway, Edward A., Ed. – 1996
This collection of 13 essays focuses on the many challenges that adults with learning disabilities face in educational, work, and social settings. The essays are: (1) "Adults with Learning Disabilities: An Emerging Area of Professional Interest and Public Attention" (James R. Patton and Edward A. Polloway); (2) "Adult Development Theories: An…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Adult Development, Adults
