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Download full textVANCE, BARBARA J. – 1967
FIFTY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN, RANGING IN AGE FROM 33 TO 56 MONTHS, PARTICIPATED IN A 7-MONTH PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL SKILLS. THE ILLINOIS TEST OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ABILITIES, THE PEABODY PICTURE VOCABULARY TEST (FORM A), AND THE VANCE LANGUAGE SKILLS TEST MEASURED THE CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT IN…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Experience, Environmental Influences, Experimental Programs
Offenbacher, Deborah I. – 1969
This study investigated whether the lower class student preceives a "conflict of subcultures" between his home environment and his middle class oriented school. Data were collected through interviews with 12- to 16-year-old lower class students in New York City and Baltimore. The 110 students on whom the findings are based were divided…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Culture Conflict, Educational Attitudes
Bolman, Lee – 1968
Four different sessions of an educational program for business executives were studied to compare the differential effects of laboratory human relations (T-group) training versus a lecture-discussion approach to interpersonal relations in organizations. Both types of programs produced equal change in participants' stated beliefs about effective…
Descriptors: Administrators, Analysis of Variance, Attitude Change, Behavior Change
Work, William – 1978
When children begin formal schooling, their fundamental communication skills, speaking and listening, are well developed but limited in scope and range; it becomes the teacher's task to assist the children in achieving communicative competence. A developmental project called "Developing Communicative Competence in Children" identifies four…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Education, Individual Development
Royster, Eugene C.; And Others – 1978
This study examined the benefits of Head Start to children entering elementary school, assessed Head Start benefits to their parents, and described the characteristics and services of the Head Start program. Data were collected from a sample of Head Start graduates located in 32 sites selected to represent Head Start programs throughout the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Interpersonal Competence
Royster, Eugene C.; Larson, John C. – 1978
This report is the executive summary of a study examining the benefits of Head Start to children entering elementary school, assessing Head Start benefits to their parents, and describing the characteristics and services of the Head Start program. The data presented in this report were collected from a sample of Head Start graudates located in 32…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Interpersonal Competence
Alpine School District, American Fork, UT. – 1974
The Alpine School District in American Fork, Utah is administering a career education program to provide positive experiences to ninth grade students in exploring various careers. The three week career education mini-course reviews some of the seventh grade curriculum and encourages students to do additional thinking and searching in the area of…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration, Communication Skills
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Occupational and Career Curriculum Development. – 1975
The curriculum was designed to provide a systematic way of instructing apprentices preparing for various trades in the area of communications skills needed on and off the job. The core curriculum is developed in eight learning modules which are self-contained instructional packages: (1) effective verbal communications--understanding and being…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Audiolingual Skills, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Sokoloff, Kent A. – 1976
This second in a series of five papers on communication reticence discusses the establishment of a setting for the treatment of communicationally reticent individuals. Eleven years of operation of a formal program at the Pennsylvania State University provides the basis for discussion of factors in the operation of the system. An eclectic…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Clinical Diagnosis, College Students, Communication Skills
Metzger, Nancy J. – 1976
The student who has come to be called "reticent" expresses concern about many oral, communicative behaviors, ranging from public speaking to meeting strangers and carrying on a few minutes of "small talk." A rhetorical method of instruction was utilized in a study conducted to determine the effects of treatment on a selected…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Communication Skills
Oerkvitz, Susan K. – 1976
The purpose of this paper, the fourth in a series of five dealing with communication reticence, describes the residual effects of training in a treatment program for communicationally reticent individuals. A questionnaire to assess the specific problems which led students to seek instruction in the special speech sections of the Pennsylvania State…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Communication Skills
Creamer, John J.; Gilmore, Joseph T. – 1974
Reported are proceedings of a conference on competency based teacher education (CBTE) and the preparation of special educators. Papers on the following topics are included: CBTE and the education of the handicapped (H. Saettler); models for coalitions in special education teacher training (M. Reynolds); principles and practices for designing…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Competency Based Teacher Education, Conference Reports, Exceptional Child Education
Bronson, Martha B. – 1975
This address presents a discussion of the rationale, procedures, reliability, and validity of the "Social and Nonsocial Executive Skills Profile." The skills profile was developed to identify and measure aspects of the preschool child's classroom behavior that are highly related to social and nonsocial competence. Executive competence is defined…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation, Guides, Interaction Process Analysis
Missouri State Dept. of Education, Jefferson City. Research Coordinating Unit. – 1973
The social studies curriculum guide is based on the Career Conscious Individual Career Education Model, designed to create career consciousness in all students at all educational levels; to help them develop necessary life competencies, attitudes, and values; to assist them in visualizing possible life career roles; and to analyze and relate these…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning
Haldane, Bernard – 1974
The book teaches a method for managing a personal career in much the way a successful business is managed. The method is named "System to Identify Motivated Skills" (SIMS); the first chapters lead the reader through the process in a series of workbook-like exercises designed to identify his strengths, rather than his weaknesses. The book's fourth…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Career Change, Career Choice, Career Planning
