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Shamgar-Handelman, Lea; Belkin, Ruth – 1979
The study described in this report was conducted to test the connection between patterns of organization and functioning of individual Afro Asian families in Israel and the achievement of their children in formal educational settings. The 177 working class families studied were mostly from Morocco, Iraq, and Iran and lived in neighborhoods…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Influences, Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment
Download full textSELLS, S.B.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THIS REPORT PRESENTS THE RESULTS OF A 5-YEAR RESEARCH PROGRAM WHICH ANALYZED MANY OF THE CORRELATES OF PEER ACCEPTANCE-REJECTION IN A SERIES OF STUDIES INVOLVING 37,913 SCHOOL CHILDREN, AGES 9 TO 12 YEARS. PEER ACCEPTANCE-REJECTION WAS INVESTIGATED THROUGH THE USE OF A PEER RATING SCALE AND A TEACHER RATING SCALE. A NUMBER OF METHODOLOGICAL…
Descriptors: Delinquency Causes, Disadvantaged, Family Influence, Group Status
Green, Dorothy E. – 1979
National surveys of teenagers have provided information for making decisions about smoking prevention programs. Repeated surveys are necessary because smoking patterns change over time. The prevalence of adolescent smoking and the variables related to it were investigated as well as the potential utility of those variables in predicting habitual…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Environmental Influences, Family Influence
Weber, Margaret B.; And Others – 1980
The purpose of this study was to examine characteristics and perceptions of women who hold administrative positions and of women teachers who may aspire to administrative positions in public or private elementary and secondary education. Specifically, the study focused on the following questions: What traditional personal and social definitions of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Family Influence, Females
Fleming, Elyse S.; Hollinger, Constance L. – 1979
Program goals of Project CHOICE were evaluated in terms of their ability to develop procedures to identify educational, family, and racial barriers to fulfillment of potential in sophomore girls, to design and use strategies for removing internalized and institutional barriers, and to be validated as effective intervention measures. Results of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development
Iverson, Barbara K.; Walberg, Herbert J. – 1979
The purpose of this analysis is to provide an estimate of the mean correlation of home environment measures with learning measures across studies and to indicate sample and study characteristics associated with different magnitudes of correlation. University of Chicago studies of behavioral processes and British investigations of parental…
Descriptors: Correlation, Ecological Factors, Elementary School Students, Family Environment
Galbraith, Richard C.; Smith, James E. – 1979
This paper criticizes Zajonc's confluence model of the relationship between sibling spacing and sibling intelligence. According to Zajonc, variations in the intellectual performance of individuals are accounted for in part by two features of the individual's family of orientation: (1) the number of children in that family, and (2) the spacing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Age Differences, Birth Order
Crawford, Charles O. – 1964
Analyses of data obtained from 790 questionnaires collected from a sample of public high school seniors in a relatively low income, sparsely settled county in northern New York State in May, 1962, revealed some of the effects of 2 family systems--the immediate family and the extended family--on the migration planning of high school seniors.…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Family Counseling, Family Influence, Family Role
Monge, Rolf H. – 1968
Social deprivation, resulting in biological deprivation, involves a way of life, communicated to successive generations by the family, which shapes communication, language, thought and cognitive styles of problem-solving. Among important motivational and emotional factors associated with deprivation and ineffective learning are lower intelligence…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Behavior Change, Biological Influences, Cognitive Development
Erickson, Edsel L.; And Others – 1968
This pilot study was designed to test the hypothesis that teachers' perceptions of the career expectations held for them by their best friend by their spouse are associated with whether they, the teachers: (1) leave education for other occupations, (2) leave their school system and enter other school systems, or (3) remain in their present school…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Career Choice, Faculty Mobility, Family Influence
Lowe, James L. – Northwest Missouri State College Bulletin, 1963
The purpose of this study was to explore some facets of the levels of educational aspirations of high school seniors in Trenton, Missouri as part of a larger study. The emphasis was on the following hypotheses: (1) The proportion of high school seniors aspiring to attend college increases as the socioeconomic status of their parents goes up, (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Family Influence, High School Seniors
Tweddale, R. Bruce – 1977
It is hypothesized that students who have a high regard for higher education and whose family and peer group echo this sentiment will be less likely to drop out than those with less regard. To test this hypothesis, 147 students entering Grand Valley State Colleges for fall 1977 were surveyed. The survey instrument consisted of 28 statements to…
Descriptors: Cluster Colleges, College Freshmen, Dropout Attitudes, Family Influence
Prince, J. D., Sr. – 1977
The hypothesis of this study is that education will free an individual to move from one social stratum to another. The population studied consisted of a selected sample of 357 graduates of the 1976 class of Tupelo High School in Mississippi. A personal interview using a 19 question form was conducted with each member of the class. A detailed study…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Family Influence, Family Role, High Schools
Smidchens, Uldis; Thompson, Eugene – 1978
This research examines the effects of family organization upon student achievement. The authors are particularly concerned with teacher expectations and beliefs regarding single parenting and its effects upon skill acquisition. The sample is made up of over 400 fifth graders in the public schools of a middle sized midwestern city. Data regarding…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Spenner, Kenneth I. – 1974
This research report presents the results of a study to determine the influence of significant others upon adolescent levels of aspiration. High school sophomores in a central Wisconsin community responded to an instrument testing ego, ego's perception of significant others' expectations, and occupational aspiration. The two hypotheses under study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aspiration, Educational Research, Family Influence
