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Hill, Kennedy T. – 1980
This program of research has three general thrusts. First, the relations between motivation and achievement performance were studied across children of various sociocultural backgrounds including lower- and middle- class white, black, and hispanic children. Motivational test bias was found to be strong for students of all sociocultural…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Motivation, Racial Differences
Columbia Univ., New York, NY. Bureau of Applied Social Research. – 1971
During Fall 1970 the questionnaire for the Winter 1970-1971, or fourth follow-up, of the 1965-1966 current population survey (CPS) of high school seniors was completed by the Columbia researchers and Census Bureau personnel jointly. The field phase of the follow-up was conducted by Census in Winter 1970-1971, followed by data processing by Census.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Attendance Patterns, College Attendance, Elementary Secondary Education
Grossman, Michael; And Others – 1980
This document consists of summaries of six closely-related studies which investigated empirically the determinants of children's health with particular reference to home and local environmental variables. The first study examined the relationship between a number of family characteristics and the health of white children (6 through 11 years of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Environmental Influences
Tidwell, Romeria – 1979
This study provides psycho-educational information about Afro-American, Asian American, Anglo-American and Hispanic-American secondary students identified for the California Mentally Gifted Minor program by the non-test method. Five self-report affective instruments given to the 193 tenth grade students participating in the study are described.…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Individual Characteristics, Measurement Instruments, Minority Group Children
Download full textKOHLWES, GARY F. – 1966
THIS STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE IF THERE ARE ANY DIFFERENCES IN THE DEVELOPMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF UNDERPRIVILEGED PRESCHOOL CHILDREN THAT CAN BE TRACED TO DIFFERENCES IN RACE OR SEX. THE STUDY SAMPLE WAS DRAWN FROM A GROUP OF 368 CAUCASIAN AND NEGRO CHILDREN ENROLLED IN THE SUMMER 1965 PORTLAND, OREGON HEAD START PROGRAM. THE CHILDREN…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Behavior, Concept Formation, Disadvantaged
Rodriquez, Minerva D. – 1968
In an effort to determine reinforcement and its effectiveness among Mexican American migrant and non-migrant children, 2 tests, the Children's Locus of Control Scale and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, and some questions were administered to 60 first and second graders from 2 elementary schools in Laredo, Texas. It was expected that Mexican…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Blacks, Disadvantaged
PDF pending restorationBureau of the Census (DOC), Suitland, MD. – 1968
DETAILED TABLES, FIGURES, AND RELATED REPORTS DESCRIBE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES AS OF MARCH 1967. DATA ARE COMPARED WITH REFERENCE TO THE POPULATION'S AGE, RACE, SEX, AND RESIDENCE IN NONMETROPOLITAN AND METROPOLITAN AREAS AND IN AND OUTSIDE CENTRAL CITIES. EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTS IN 1947 AND 1967 ARE ALSO COMPARED. THIS…
Descriptors: Blacks, Census Figures, Data, Educational Attainment
Johnson, Joseph Carlton; Jacobson, Milton D. – 1968
The general reading attainment realized by 44 college-bound senior high school students in a 12-week program was studied. The effects of intelligence, sex, race, high school attended, college board scores, age, college choice, and socioeconomic status on the criterion variables of reading rate, vocabulary, and comprehension were also studied. The…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Bound Students, Intelligence Differences, Racial Differences
Adams, Arvil V.; And Others – 1978
The study is based on an analysis of recent trends in youth unemployment from published sources and on additional analysis of a national sample of young men and young women 16 to 18 years of age who were followed longitudinally over a seven year period in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The book establishes the dimensions of youth unemployment and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Employment Problems
Beard, Jacob G.; And Others – 1975
Changes in the relative academic achievement of Florida's black and white children over the last 13 years during which desegregation was taking place are investigated. The availability of achievement data for the entire black and white population, along with the 13-year time span between observations are seen as principal advantages. Data show…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Youth, Desegregation Effects, Minority Group Children
Sorensen, Aage B.; Fuerst, Sarah – 1975
This paper presents an analysis of black-white differences in job shifts based on panel data. Three topics are investigated: (1) whether a person intended to quit (a person's intention to quit); (2) whether or not a person actually quit his job; and (3) whether or not a person was laid off. The outcome of these events is analyzed in relation to…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Employee Attitudes
Community Relations Commission, London (England). – 1974
This booklet contains information about what is happening in the field of in-service training in a multi-racial society in England at the present time, as gathered by means of discussions with teachers and with those concerned with the provision of courses. A rationale for in-service training in the context of the under-achievement of children…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language)
Willhelm, Sidney M. – 1975
A brief historical resume outlining the relationship between economics, racism, and intellectual justification for racism begins this paper, which notes that the I.Q. argument is a racist ideology in exactly the same way that Christianity, Darwinism, and Equality have been systems of justifications for America's racism. It fits the definition of…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Blacks, Cultural Differences, Economic Factors
Barry, Thomas E. – 1975
The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether the impact of television advertising on black children is significantly different from its impact on white children, and if the impact is good or bad in terms of psychological and social development. Following an extensive review of the literature on this subject, an exploratory survey was…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Commercial Television
DeFilippi, Mary L. – 1970
Investigating the general hypothesis that word connotations differ between black and white youth peer groups, the author solicited personal reactions among black and white eleventh- and twelfth-graders to a list of twelve current complimentary and "fighting" jargon words. This hypothesis was accepted, and three others were suggested and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Association (Psychology), Behavior Patterns, Black Attitudes
