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Download full textKatkovsky, Walter; And Others – 1966
This report summarizes two studies on the influence of parent behaviors on the development of their children's beliefs that they (the children), rather than external agents, cause and are responsible for the reinforcements they receive. Children's beliefs in internal control were correlated with ratings of the mother's behaviors when she was in…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Beliefs, Child Psychology, Childhood Attitudes
Fish, Caroline; And Others – 1967
Two groups of preschool children from the Boston area were selected to participate in a study of marginal emotional disorders, their diagnosis by an interdisciplinary team, and their effect upon a child's functioning in the preschool setting. The two groups of children who attended the diagnostic sessions consisted of 19 lower class Head Start…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Consultants, Disadvantaged, Emotional Adjustment
Abbey, Brian; Ashenden, Dean – Radical Education Dossier 2, 1977
This paper presents a Marxist reply to a philosophical discourse on the role of the "progressive" teacher in the education of children. The position under attack is that teachers themselves, no matter how progressive, are a part of the social hierarchy and impose middle class values on children, thus perpetuating the system. They are, in…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Change Agents, Communism, Conflict
Lackey, L. L.; Jacobs, T. O. – 1972
The study attempted to measure world-of-work values and perceptions at entry and after a period of employment of enrollees in Plan D of the Public Service Careers (PSC) Program, a Federal program designed to bring disadvantaged individuals into Federal employment. A PSC Enrollee Questionnaire, developed from a logical taxonomy of world-of-work…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Entry Workers, Federal Programs, Government Employees
Strobel, Michael G.; Dudek, Stephanie Z. – 1974
Fifty-eight middle class children were tested over 6 years with 25 achievement, I.Q., and personality tests. Consistency of test results were evaluated by a variance comparison method and a simple signal detection model. Both methods lead to the conclusion that achievement tests are far better predictors than personality tests with I.Q. scales…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Intelligence Tests
Bartel, Nettie R.; And Others – 1970
A locus of control measure was administered to 431 lower and middle class children in grades one, two, four and six. Subjects did not differ significantly from each other on locus of control in grades one and two, but by fourth and sixth grades the differences had reached significance. Correlations between locus of control and achievement were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Black Students, Disadvantaged
Kreitlow, Burton W. – 1970
In this study designed to generate hypotheses concerning adult learning, cognitive processes, and the reeducation of disadvantaged adults, the phenomena of concept attainment, symbol manipulation, verbal behavior, differential instruction, and awareness levels were investigated. Attention focus (cognitive style) in the concept attainment process…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Attention Span, Bibliographies
Thompson, Kathy Seric – 1969
The objective of this study was to modify negative racial evaluations in preschool white middle-class children through an experimental reading program consisting of storybooks presenting black figures in a favorable light. The sample consisted of 39 white middle-class children divided into control and experimental groups, and the materials were…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Black Influences, Classroom Environment, Experimental Programs
Irwin, D. Michelle; Ambron, Sueann R. – 1973
Two studies were designed to examine the relationship between moral judgment and role-taking in young children. In Study I, 30 lower class and 30 middle class five-year-olds were presented with affective, cognitive and perceptual role-taking tasks. Task performances were then examined in relation to four dimensions of moral…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Intelligence Differences
Cook, Laverne – 1973
The effects of systematically varying the administration procedure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) for Anglo and Spanish American children were studied. Procedures used were standard, verbal feedback and monetary feedback for correct answers. Ninety rural 5th grade students from southern New Mexico were divided into 3 groups…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Doctoral Dissertations, Feedback, Grade 5
Olmsted, Patricia P.; Jester, R. Emile – 1972
Two groups of mothers and children were sampled for this study. One group of 39 was identified as middle-income or higher and the other group of 32 was identified as lower-income. The children ranged in age from kindergarten through third grade. The teaching task was adapted from the Eight Block Sort used by Hess, et al. (1968). No reliable…
Descriptors: Background, Economic Status, Family Influence, Middle Class Parents
Rivera, William M. – 1971
A. Inkeles' cross-cultural work is reviewed. Inkeles studied young factory workers in six developing countries (Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Nigeria, and East Pakistan) to determine their "modernity" characteristics versus their "traditional" or rural orientations. The use of the "modern man" thesis in this study,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Developing Nations
Wolfram, Walter Andrew – 1969
The sociolinguistic variation of speech among Detroit Negroes is described. The analysis is based on the speech of 48 Negro informants, evenly distributed in four social classes. In addition, 12 upper-middle class whites are included. The social variables investigated in relation to speech differences are class, style, sex, age, and racial…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Blacks, Correlation, Language Usage
PANKOVE, ETHEL – 1966
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN RISK TAKING WERE STUDIED IN A SAMPLE OF 162 MIDDLE-CLASS CHILDREN IN GRADE 5. MEASURES OF ANXIETY, CREATIVITY, DEFENSIVENESS, INTELLIGENCE, AND RISK TAKING WERE ANALYZED TO DETERMINE CERTAIN SELECTED RELATIONSHIPS. THE AUTHOR CONCLUDED THAT CREATIVITY BEARS A MORE POWERFUL RELATIONSHIP TO RISK TAKING THAN DOES…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cognitive Ability, Creative Expression, Creativity Research
Miyakawa, Hiroko; Restaino, Lillian C. R. – 1976
Two experiments evaluated the effects of mnemonic training upon 5- and 10-year-old children's learning and retention of patterns at varying intervals. Subjects were 172 middle class children evenly distributed across the two age groups. Experiment I investigated the effects of individual strategies (perceptual exploration, organization of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Learning
