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Aidman, Amy – 1997
This digest reports recent findings on violent television content, highlights the recently developed television ratings system, and offers suggestions for parental mediation of children's television viewing. The National Television Violence Study has demonstrated that not all violence is equal. Certain plot elements in portrayals of violence are…
Descriptors: Aggression, Audience Response, Child Behavior, Content Analysis
Hutchings, Donald; And Others – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1977
A five-year longitudinal investigation was undertaken to identify factors influencing secondary school students in their choice of sixth-form courses and possible careers. The influence of intelligence, personality, aspirations, and family were studied. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Art, Biology, Career Choice
Poole, Millicent E.; Jones, Dave – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1977
Influences are examined (home, school, and intra-personal) which are associated with early school leaving. A follow-up study reports the educational and occupational plans and attainments of early leavers. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
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Benedict, Mary I.; And Others – Child Welfare, 1996
Studied associations between type of placement in out-of-home care (kinship versus nonrelative) and selected outcomes in adulthood. Found few differences in adult functioning despite significant differences in functioning during care between children in kinship care and those in nonrelative family foster care. (Author/SD)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Caregivers, Child Custody, Child Rearing
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Yang, Philip Q. – International Migration Review, 1994
Proposes a broad analytical framework in the study of immigrant naturalization that incorporates an immigrant's individual characteristics with the larger social contexts in the country of origin and the country of destination to explain the likelihood of citizenship acquisition. Results testing of this framework show that such considerations are…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Citizenship, Cultural Influences, Data Analysis
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Baldwin, Norma; Spencer, Nick – Children & Society, 1993
Reviews the association between material deprivation and child abuse and considers the implications of this association for preventive strategies. It is concluded that communitywide strategies aimed at supporting all care providers are more likely to succeed than those based on at-risk groups. (SLD)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Causal Models, Child Abuse, Child Caregivers
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Monks, James – Economics of Education Review, 2000
Examines earnings differentials across individual and institutional characteristics for college graduates, using national longitudinal data. Graduates from highly selective colleges and universities (and research universities) earn significantly more than graduates from less selective colleges or public institutions. Gender and racial returns vary…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Educational Quality, Higher Education
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Westby, Carol – Topics in Language Disorders, 2000
This article addresses the definition of learning disabilities (LD), issues in identifying learning disability in young adults, the legal rights/protections for adults with LD in the workplace or higher education, and what are reasonable accommodations. Case vignettes provide examples of the issues. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), Adults
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Parsons, Jeffrey T.; Bimbi, David S.; Koken, Juline A.; Halkitis, Perry N. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2005
This exploratory investigation examined the relationship between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and related psychosocial characteristics and sexual behaviors among 46 gay/bisexual male escorts who advertise via the Internet. More than a quarter of men (28.3%) reported some history of CSA. Men reporting CSA were more likely to be from an ethnic…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Sexual Abuse, Children, Homosexuality
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Thornberry, Catherine; Olson, Karin – Developmental Disabilities Bulletin, 2005
The abuse of people with developmental disabilities has a long and horrific history, which extends from prehistoric to current times. Only in the past 20 or 30 years has society recognized that this abuse is a serious social problem and, with this recognition, research has been carried out on the topic. The limited research that has been done…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Developmental Disabilities, Safety, Institutionalized Persons
Stricker, Lawrence J.; Rock, Donald A. – 1993
The relationships between examinee background characteristics and performance on the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test were appraised by a structural equation modeling analysis. The initial characteristics of 3,145 examinees (i.e., sex, ethnicity, parental education, geographic region, and age) had modest relationships with their…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Quality
van Resandt, Anita Wijnaendts – 1993
A study examined the vocational guidance needs of young drifters and homeless people in the Netherlands. Available literature on the following topics was reviewed: accessibility and scope of guidance services in the Netherlands, characteristics and guidance needs of young drifters in the Netherlands, and the European dimension in vocational…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth
Pollio, Howard R. – Teaching Learning Issues, 1996
This paper first evaluates discipline classification schemes and general differences between disciplines associated with the natural sciences and those associated with the humanities. It then reviews research which either asked students how professors in these fields teach, observed teachers in their classrooms, or asked students to describe their…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Style, College Faculty, Grading
Parshall, Cynthia G.; Kromrey, Jeffrey D. – 1993
This paper studies whether examinee characteristics are systematically related to mode effect across paper and computer versions of the same instrument, using data from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) of the Educational Testing Service in its Computer-Based Testing Pilot Study of 1991. The following characteristics of 1,114 examinees were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Comparative Testing
Gerber, Paul J.; Ginsberg, Rick J. – 1990
This study sought to answer the question of how people with learning disabilities have become highly successful in various fields. It sought to identify alterable variables, that is, the behaviors that can be cultivated and shaped, that contribute to high levels of vocational success. A group of 46 highly successful adults with a history of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Attitudes, Behavior Change
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