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Bliss, Leonard B.; And Others – 1996
The Inventario de Comportamiento de Estudio (ICE), a Spanish translation of the Study Behavior Inventory (SBI) was developed and tested using a group of 594 undergraduate students from randomly selected classes at a private comprehensive university in Mexico. Both instruments were designed to assess the study behaviors of students in institutions…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Bilingual Education, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Ford, Donna Y. – 1996
The dynamics of underachievement among gifted and nongifted black students were studied with students in grades 6 through 9 in 5 Virginia public school districts. A traditional model of underachievement, defining it through a regression model, and a nontraditional model that used grade point averages (GPAs) and self-reported level of effort in…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Behavior Patterns, Black Students, Grade Point Average
Kawakami, Alice J.; And Others – 1995
This study provides a profile of variables related to the status of students at risk of failure in public high schools in American Samoa during the 1993-94 school year. It is part of a larger study looking at high schools in some of the 10 American-affiliated Pacific political entities. In American Samoa, data were collected from 50 student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrators, Behavior Patterns, Child Abuse
Smith, Wade C., Jr. – 1997
There has been a recognized need to understand the basis of quality teaching at the secondary school level. The Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI) was developed by T. Wubbels, H. A. Creton, and H. P. Hooymayers in the 1980s to address teaching quality at the high school level. A modified version of the QTI, the Professor Interpersonal…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Behavior Patterns, College Faculty, Elementary Secondary Education
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Eaton, Martin J.; Dembo, Myron H. – 1996
This investigation explored the differences in the motivational beliefs of ninth-grade Asian American and non-Asian students. Participants were 154 Asian Americans of various ethnicities and 372 non-Asians. Student beliefs about achievement were explored through a questionnaire developed for the study. The statistical findings suggest that the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Behavior Patterns
Nelsen, Jane – 1996
Understanding why children do not behave the way they used to, and why both controlling and overly-permissive discipline styles are ineffective, is the first step for parents and teachers who are facing child-discipline problems. This book describes a program of positive discipline principles aimed at assisting parents and teachers in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns
Mehler, Jacques; Dupoux, Emmanuel – 1994
Noting that beyond the individual variations among humans, there is a body of mental abilities common to every human being, this book examines the debate among researchers about the extent to which humans are "preprogrammed," and suggests a new scientific psychology of human development. By examining experimental data obtained from…
Descriptors: Adults, Animal Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development
Hyland, Patricia K.; Keaton, Constance J. – 1994
The intent of this study was to reduce the numbers of off-task behaviors of a group of 32 sixth-grade students in an economically disadvantaged, urban, junior high school. The subjects of the study were given the materials (paper, the mathematics book, and pencils) and seated before the tardy bell. Following teacher graphing of each of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Disadvantaged Youth
Committee for Children, Seattle, WA. – 1991
"Second Step" for preschoolers and kindergartners is a curriculum kit designed to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in young children and to increase their levels of social competence by teaching skills in empathy, impulse control, and anger management. The kit, which is part of a series that includes curricula for grades 1-3,…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Empathy, Interpersonal Competence
Klein, James D. – 1994
The effects of orienting activities and practice on performance and student behaviors in a cooperative learning environment were studied with 80 graduate education majors in an educational psychology course. A 2 x 2 factorial design was used, with orienting activity (advance organizer versus objectives) and type of practice (verbal information…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advance Organizers, Behavior Patterns, Cooperative Learning
Hahn, Carole L. – 1988
Controversial issues and their effect on students is the focus of this paper, which includes results of research on the influences of media and family. Discussions of controversial issues in an open classroom environment affects student attitudes by promoting: (1) less cynicism about government and politicians; (2) a belief that citizens have…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Citizenship Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Keefe, James W. – 1989
In 1986, the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) published a new learning style instrument, the NASSP Learning Style Profile (LSP). The LSP offers educators a well-validated and easy to use instrument for diagnosing the cognitive styles, perceptual response tendencies, and study and instructional preferences of middle level…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, Educational Environment
Astin, Alexander W. – 1990
This report presents a national profile of black college freshmen in 1989-90 and shows how these students have changed based on the past 19 surveys (1971-1989), using data on 16,000-20,000 black freshmen from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. The study focuses on a wide variety of characteristics of black college freshmen: family…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Behavior Patterns, Black Students
Crismore, Avon; Mikulecky, Larry – 1987
To increase understanding of workplace literacy, a study investigated whether data from structured interviews conducted in two previous studies of job literacy and job performance relationships support the process model of literacy proposed by Linda Flower and John Hayes, "A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing." In both studies, this…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Employment Qualifications
Aldous, Joan; Ganey, Rodney – 1982
Problem definition appears to influence problem solving outcomes with respect to their quality. In order to determine whether or not families, confronted as a group by a series of possibly problematic situations, would engage in a problem definition phase, and whether or not the phase or its absence would be related to family members' satisfaction…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Family Relationship
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