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Hoy, Cheri A.; Gregg, K. Noel – 1984
The third of seven booklets on adults with learning disabilities, this manual addresses the evaluation and remediation of oral language difficulties. An assessment section focuses on behaviors and disorders which adult education teachers should look for as well as informal diagnostic tasks in auditory discrimination, grammar, vocabulary, social…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Auditory Discrimination, Behavior Patterns
Rowe, Deborah Wells – 1986
Focusing on the role of intertextuality as young children learn to communicate through writing, art, and music during the course of usual classroom activities, an ethnographic study investigated: (1) how children's understanding and use of written language, music, and graphic/constructive art are embedded in the social worlds of their classroom;…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development
Allen, Jerry L.; And Others – 1986
A study considered whether nonnative English-speaking students are educationally handicapped in American classrooms by their communication competence (CC) and/or communication apprehension (CA). Affective, cognitive, and behavioral learning outcomes of 298 international college students' CA, immediacy (degree of perceived physical or psychological…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Apprehension, Communication Research, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Murphy, John Merton – 1985
A study of the listening strategies of college students for whom English is a second language analyzed their oral and written responses to listening selections. The analysis resulted in 17 individual strategies classified in six broad categories. More and less proficient listeners were distinguishable by the frequency of the strategies they used…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Mikulecky, Larry; Adams, Susan McIntyre – 1986
Employing measures of attributional styles and metacognitive reading behaviors, a study investigated whether a relationship exists between passive reading behaviors and extreme attributional styles (learned helplessness) in college students on academic probation. Attributional style and metacognitive strategies exhibited while reading college text…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, College Students
Oates, William R.; And Others – 1986
Technologically Advanced Families (Taffies) were profiled in a study that compared media technologies penetration in North Carolina with national media penetration data. Telephone surveys were conducted in February 1986 by journalism students at the University of North Carolina. Subjects interviewed were 585 North Carolina households to determine…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Demography, Family Environment, Media Research
Anderson, Gordon S. – 1985
An example of reader, writer, and text transaction and interaction may be seen in a study that examined story grammar and applied propositional analysis, cohesive analysis, and miscue analysis to one reader and one text to determine comprehension. A third grade boy read and then retold the story "The Accident." The miscues were marked,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. – 1985
This document presents a curriculum for high school students designed to help students recognize human needs, develop useful communication skills, improve perception and self-concept, and learn to make rational decisions to improve the quality of life for themselves and for society. The curriculum is organized by instructional objectives. An…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Communication Skills
Hillman, Susan J. – 1986
This paper reports on the development of three self-efficacy questionnaires for use in studying the interaction effect among students, teachers, and principals within an educational situation. The Student Self-Efficacy Instrument was designed from a widely used questionnaire administered to children, the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education, Forced Choice Technique
Matabane, Paula – 1986
This study examines two concepts--the relationship between different types of television viewing as evidence of viewer selectivity, and the structural relationships between television viewing and experiences derived from a subculture and location in the social structure. A review of the way mainstream research has characterized the viewing…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Behavior Patterns, Blacks, Cultural Influences
Gritz, Ellen R. – 1982
Cigarette smoking is a behavior with profound biomedical and psychosocial consequences across the life span. Although it is advertised in terms of youth, beauty, sexual appeal, success and independence, smoking is intimately linked with addiction, disease and death. Smoking has been shown to be a leading contributer to several kinds of cancer,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Advertising, Behavior Patterns
McCroskey, James C.; And Others – 1985
Data gathered from 42 secondary school speech communication teachers and their students formed the foundation for a study that examined the relationship between: (1) differential use of Behavior Alteration Techniques (BATs) by teachers trained or untrained in communication in instruction and (2) learning of students of varying quality levels.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns
Ascione, Frank R.; And Others – 1988
The study examined the interaction behaviors of nonhandicapped siblings of 60 preschool children with either hearing impairments, cognitive/language impairments, or Down Syndrome, and compared these behaviors with those of 35 siblings of nonhandicapped children. Videotapes of social interactions were evaluated for behaviors suggesting imitation,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Demography, Disabilities
Eder, Donna – 1982
Peer influence on students has been of interest to sociologists for some time. But most studies of elementary classroom interaction have focused primarily on teacher-student interaction. A study of peer influence on other group members was designed to explain why students assigned to low ability groups became inattentive more frequently than…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Attention Span, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Observation Techniques
Moore, Earl J. – 1981
This workshop manual is one of four volumes in a staff development series designed for use with the Georgia comprehensive guidance and counseling units. The manual presents three separate models of students' school coping styles to aid classroom teachers' understanding of student behavior. Part 1 summarizes four basic models of student coping,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cerebral Dominance, Children, Comprehensive Guidance
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