The purpose of this study was to identify the most important factors related to the problem of women's participation in mathematics and to determine the relative importance of the factors to guide future research and intervention efforts. The vehicle for this study was a national survey of 1,452 13-year-olds and 1,788 high school seniors. The data…

Little research has examined the relationships between parents' perceptions of their adolescent children, the adolescents' self-perceptions and the congruence of those perceptions to adolescent behavior problems. Two parent families (N=64) with an adolescent member completed a Behavior Adjustment Scale. Based on these scores 42 families were…

Despite their obvious talents and professional success, many women in professional training lack self-esteem and a sense of personal worth. In psychotherapy, these women reveal the maintenance of close ties to their families of origin and an orientation towards fulfilling parents' needs and expectations. The therapeutic work involves helping them…

Sociological research on teacher decision making in curriculum and instructional development is reviewed. The Institute for Research on Teaching (IRT) shares a number of concerns with this research, including the question of who determines content, the extent to which content covered covaries with social class and sex, and teachers' conceptions of…

Described in this report is a study which was undertaken in Wisconsin to evaluate the effectiveness of the Parent-Child Nutrition Education Project. A review of literature dealing with parent-centered approaches in education is provided. The study's focus, its methodology, its training of parents and data collected from pre and post tests of the…

A study was conducted on the factors which influence young women to marry or have their first child at a given age. The data used were taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women conducted by the Center for Human Resource Research at Ohio State University, during which a sample of 5,159 young women aged 14 to 24 in 1968 were…

Factorially derived aspects of religiousness, i.e., intrinsic, orthodoxy, practice, and cognitive, were examined in juxtaposition with indices of parental influence, sex-role identity and interpersonal style. The data were analyzed separately for boys (N=297) and girls (N=344) from several Catholic parochial schools. The results indicate that: (1)…

One of a series of studies originating in Austin, Texas examining the relative contribution of the primary socializing agents on the child's sex-role development, their study was designed to determine whether mother and peers of nursery school children differentially reward or punish play with sex-appropriate or sex-inappropriate toys. The study…

The major purposes of this study were to determine whether career awareness in children is fostered by television viewing and to explore the perceptions of teachers with regard to three factors: children's program choices, children's occupational choices and occupational role portrayals of television characters. Also investigated were status…

This research project was designed to explore, in two phases, the nature of the relationship between parental behavior and children's ability to solve problems. Phase I, which is examined in this paper, deals with two specific questions: (1) Does a statistically significant relationship exist between the mother's linguistic code and the child's…

This research project was designed to explore, in two phases, the nature of the relationship between parental behavior and children's ability to solve problems. Phase II, which is examined in this paper, deals with two specific questions: (1) Is maternal linguistic code subject to desirable modification and (2) Is the mother's perception of…

A prior national evaluation suggested that children enrolled in the Parent Education Follow Through Program performed equal to or better than non-Follow Through children on several achievement subtests. The present study involved multivariate analysis of first through third grade achievement data in three Parent Follow Through communities. The…

Attitudes females have toward women's roles and working mothers are examined. Data collected from juniors and senior college students in education reveal the following: college females continue to hold traditional views of women, and a need exists to increase the perception among adolescent females of changing sex roles and opportunities in…

This report is concerned with the problem of the socialization of academic behavior and with the over-representation of Negro students among low achievers. Studied were such possible causative factors as (1) parental educational level and other social structural variables; (2) differential reinforcements of Negro and white students; and (3)…

This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association as part of a symposium, "A social learning alternative to structural theories for explaining developmental changes in childrens behavior." This presentation examines the moral development of a child in terms of a social learning approach, and discusses…