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Tomlinson, Ancelyn E. – 1987
Conducted in a school serving mainly Hispanic children, this practicum implemented an intervention designed to increase parents' involvement in the learning activities of their children. Practicum goals were to: (1) increase parents' attendance at Parent Teacher Association (PTA) meetings; (2) increase parents' attendance at parent-teacher…
Descriptors: Attendance, Cooperative Planning, Hispanic Americans, Homework
Download full textTeddlie, Charles; And Others – 1984
This report summarizes the findings of the Louisiana School Effectiveness study, designed to identify school level attitudes and behaviors which predict students' achievement. Principals, teachers, and students in 76 schools with third grade classrooms responded to school climate questionnaires. Data for the students also included scores on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Educational Attainment, Educational Environment
Teddlie, Charles; And Others – 1984
This report details the methodology and findings of the Louisiana School Effectiveness study, designed to identify school level attitudes and behaviors which predict students' achievement. Principals, teachers, and students in 76 schools with third grade classrooms responded to school climate questionnaires. Data for the students also included…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Educational Attainment, Educational Environment
Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities, Harrisburg. – 1984
Postsecondary plans of over 16,000 freshmen and seniors enrolled in Pennsylvania's public and private high schools during 1983-1984 were studied. Attention was directed to the effect of community, school, family, and student personal factors and characteristics that influence student decisions to attend various forms of postsecondary education.…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academic Aspiration, Change Strategies, College Attendance
Veres, Helen C.; Carmichael, Mary Margaret – 1981
A project developed and tested methods to reduce sex-role stereotyping in occupational education programs. A total of 460 students completed two surveys that obtained information on background, education and career plans, influences on choice of occupation, perceptions of support for nontraditional career choice, and perceptions of occupational…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Education, Decision Making
Gandara, Patricia – 1980
To ascertain why some Mexican Americans achieve despite the record that less than 60% of all Hispanics complete high school and earn only 2% of all bachelor's and 1% of all doctoral degrees, retrospective interviews provided data on 10 dimensions of background characteristics of 45 Chicano "invulnerables." One-third were females; all…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, College Graduates, Cultural Context
Rosenfeld, Vila M., Comp. – 1981
This guide provides suggestions for research concerning the successes and failures of Future Homemakers of America, as part of an effort to strengthen the overall program. The research suggestions are directed primarily to teacher educators and their students, but also to others interested in research projects concerning Future Homemakers of…
Descriptors: Adults, Educational Methods, Educational Research, High Schools
Lighter, Jessica R.; And Others – 1981
A study examined the effects of maternal employment status and a series of intrafamilial variables on the career orientation of adolescent females and on their attitudes toward working mothers. The Career Orientation Scale (COS), a researcher-developer scale designed to measure the extent to which work is viewed as central to the female…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age, Attitudes, Career Education
Seelye, H. Ned; Wasilewski, Jacqueline Howell – 1981
This report examines the results of an exploratory research study of the social competency development among multicultural students who attended an after school program administered by the Spanish Education Development Center in Washington, D.C. Three main questions were probed: (1) What social competencies are needed by multicultural children to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Case Studies, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Pluralism
Tedesco, Lisa A. – 1978
Research treatments of home environment in studies of intellectual development and school performance are reviewed. The conceptualizations of home environment include variables specifying family status and deprivational conditions, child-rearing techniques, educational and intellectual process variables, and transactional experience. Psychological…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This set of 24 bulletins provides parents with information on various topics related to child development, behavior and education. Topics discussed include: parents as role models; parental needs; parental expectations; talking with one's child; avoiding childhood labels; helping children learn to cope; setting limits; listening to children;…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Child Rearing, Childhood Interests
Senate Committee of Canada (Ontario). Standing Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. – 1978
Experiences in prenatal life and early childhood that may cause personality disorders of criminal behavior in later life are examined in these proceedings of the Subcommittee on Childhood Experience as Causes of Criminal Behavior of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. This issue, the thirteenth in a series of 19 hearings dating…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anthropology, Child Abuse, Day Care
Fyans, Leslie J., Jr. – 1979
The Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress (IIEP) Test Comfort Scale was administered and test results were studied in terms of student achievement and correlates of achievement. Using the revised, seven-item scale, it was determined that: in grade 4, there was no main significant effect for sex or ethnic differences, although Orientals and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Affective Measures, Age Differences, Anxiety
Safilios-Rothschild, Constantina – 1979
This report presents a synthesis and critique of approximately 850 books, research studies, and journal articles appearing between 1960 and 1978 on sex role socialization and sex discrimination. It also offers a number of hypotheses regarding the emergence, maintenance, and elimination of sex discrimination. This document is presented in six…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Achievement, Attitude Change, Developed Nations
KANDEL, DENISE B.; AND OTHERS – 1968
THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE (1) TO EXAMINE THE RELATIVE INFLUENCE UPON ADOLESCENTS OF PEERS AND FAMILIES, (2) TO COMPARE THESE INFLUENCES IN TWO SOCIETIES, THE UNITED STATES AND DENMARK, AND (3) TO DESCRIBE THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE AND OPERATION OF ADOLESCENT SUBCULTURES IN THE TWO SOCIETIES. DATA WERE COLLECTED ON ALL STUDENTS IN THREE AMERICAN…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Culture, Beliefs, Cultural Differences
