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Download full textAmerican Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
Project Concern in Hartford bused approsimately 260 inner city children to suburban elementary schools. The project was designed to evaluate experimentally the effects of (1) placement in a suburban school with or without remedial-supportive assistance and (2) placement in an inner city school with or without compensatory services. Criterion…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary Services, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects
Hughes, Edward – 1966
Tests of intelligence, personality adjustment, and attitudes toward school and examinations were given to vocational evening class students attending a British college of further education. Analysis of results showed that continuation students were significantly more intelligent than those resuming after a lapse of time, and that of the latter…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Vocational Education, Analysis of Variance
DRABICK, LAWRENCE W. – 1967
INFLUENCES WHICH HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS PERCEIVE AS AFFECTING THEIR OCCUPATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATIONS WERE INVESTIGATED. GROUP-ADMINISTERED INTERVIEW SCHEDULES WERE COMPLETED BY 1,068 SENIORS IN 12 HIGH SCHOOLS BASICALLY ATTENDED BY WHITE STUDENTS AND 11 HIGH SCHOOLS PREDOMINANTLY ATTENDED BY NEGRO STUDENTS. DIFFERENCES IN PERCEPTIONS WERE…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Decision Making, Environmental Influences
Soto-Padin, Jose L. – 1968
Information on social behavior independence, and intelligence was gathered on 74 Head Start subjects (Anglo, Negro, and Mexican-American) aged 5 to 7 years, for the development of a scale to measure the level of independence in small children. The following hypotheses were tested: (1) Level of independence will differentiate ethnic groups. Ranking…
Descriptors: Achievement, Age Differences, Anglo Americans, Behavior Rating Scales
Johnson, Donald Henry – 1966
A study was made of 269 boys and 388 girls enrolled in "capstone" courses in 30 cooperating schools of Wisconsin's Pilot Program in Vocational Education. The purpose was to identify psychosocial characteristics of secondary school trainees rated by their teachers as having poor employment potential. Characteristics were analyzed in terms…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Doctoral Dissertations, Employment Potential, Females
Olton, Robert M.; And Others – 1967
This study investigated (1) the extent to which thinking and problem-solving of fifth-grade students could be improved by the use of self-instructional programed lessons (the productive thinking program), (2) the relationship between productive thinking abilities and IQ-sex characteristics of the learner, and (3) the relationship between level of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Creative Thinking, Educational Experiments
Ratchick, Irving – 1965
This report describes the criteria by which local educational agencies in New York State might identify disadvantaged pupils who are eligible for assistance under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Disadvantaged pupils can be identified by their mental ability, language ability, academic achievement, reading level, age-grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Criteria, Disadvantaged Youth
Rosenbaum, Eric – 1968
In this paper, language teachers are urged to recognize the importance of adolescent psychology, and suggestions are given on how such knowledge can be used advantageously in reinforcing language learning and in teaching literature and cultural context. Parental attitudes toward education and language study and the reasons behind the choice of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Psychology, Intelligence, Language Instruction
White, Sheldon H. – 1966
A discussion of the assumptions about the composition of intelligence which underlie preschool intervention efforts today offers theoretical evidence of a hierarchical arrangement of learning processes. International studies on cognitive development have concluded that the emergence of symbolic or conceptual thought occurs at a transitional age…
Descriptors: Age, Behavior Change, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research
Howlett, Veonne W. – 1977
A comparison of the scholastic achievement of office education students receiving Federal aid with office education students not receiving Federal aid was the focus of a study conducted in three two-year colleges in Utah. The Shipley Institute of Living Scale was administered in fall 1975 to all students (n=397) enrolled in typewriting, shorthand,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Business Education, Community Colleges, Educational Research
Gardner, R. C. – 1978
This is a discussion on the role that cognitive and affective variables play in second language learning. The variables under consideration are: (1) intelligence; (2) language aptitude; (3) motivation; and (4) anxiety. Specifically, this report focuses on the importace of attitudinal and motivational factors in achievement. Research is reviewed…
Descriptors: Achievement, Affective Behavior, Anxiety, Aptitude
Hilliard, Asa G., III – 1976
The final report adresses the problems involved in identifying gifted minority children. Reviewed is the historical perspective of cross cultural assessment in behavioral research. Typical gross errors and misinterpretations of data in cross cultural assessment are pointed out. Among fundamental considerations listed include the use of items…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Radin, Norma; Epstein, Ann – 1975
To assess the relationship between paternal behavior and the intellectual functioning of preschool boys and girls, 180 white fathers from middle, working, and lower classes (as defined by the Hollingshead-Redlich Scale) were observed at home interacting with their 4-year-olds (99 boys and 81 girls). Sessions were tape-recorded. The number of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Empathy, Fathers, Intelligence Differences
Stern, Carolyn – 1968
This bibliography, made up of approximately 350 entries concerned with many aspects of problem solving and concept formation in young children, has been designed for use by people primarily involved in experimental research in these areas of child development. Entries include experimental journal articles, conference papers, unpublished research…
Descriptors: Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Moench, Laurel – 1975
The Program for Learning in Accordance with Needs (PLAN) is characterized by a completely individualized pattern of organization. It employs multiple textbooks and materials which cross grade level lines, subject matter area lines, and teacher-pupil lines. It places particular emphasis on a high concentration of modern mathematics content. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Conventional Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educationally Disadvantaged
