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King, Edith – 1977
The document presents background information and activities for use by elementary school classroom teachers as they develop and implement programs on multiethnic education. Multiethnic education is interpreted as the inclusion in the curriculum of study about the heritage and contributions of the culture and ethnic groups that comprise American…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Education
Conger, Anthony J. – 1976
The ending of high school years is a critical time for most young people. It is a period when significant developmental tasks confront the adolescent; these tasks, if mastered, contribute to healthy and satisfactory growth into adulthood. Self-esteem, locus of control, and attitudes toward work, community, and family orientations are especially…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Career Development, Educational Development, Ethnic Groups
Fleming, Emmett L., Jr.; And Others – 1974
Though a previous study examined the data for vocational-technical students provided by the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, it did not exhaust the possibilities for evaluation of the data. The current study concentrated on three specific areas of analysis: (1) educational characteristics of students and selected…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Aspiration, Background, Data Analysis
Dougherty, Kevin – 1979
This paper deals with continuities and changes over the period 1963 to 1976 in the organization and goals of the federally supported vocational education program. Summarized first are major pieces of vocational education passed in the years from 1917 to 1963, including the Vocational Education Act of 1917, the Vocational Education Act of 1946, the…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Educational Benefits, Educational Change, Educational History
Salley, Charles D., Ed.; And Others – 1979
Proceedings of the 1979 conference of the Southern Association for Institutional Research (SAIR) are presented. The conference theme was the future of institutional research. Contents include reports of preconference workshops, speeches, panel reports, abstracts of papers, and reports pertaining to the affairs of the SAIR. Documents and authors…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Education, Collective Bargaining, College Administration
Download full textAssociation for Institutional Research. – 1981
Proceedings of the 1981 Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Forum and the 1981-82 AIR Directory are presented in a single volume. General session addresses and authors from the forum are as follows: "Some Possible Revolutions by 2001" (Michael Marien); "Information, the Non-Depletive Resource" (John W. Lacey);…
Descriptors: Awards, Biology, College Role, Committees
Sheppard, N. Alan; And Others – 1977
Intended to aid secondary school vocational education teachers, this document provides learning activities for educators to use in meeting the needs of culturally diverse students and outlines strategies to improve teaching effectiveness in overcoming cultural differences. Section I summarizes background information on cultural pluralism and the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Behavior Patterns, Blacks
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 22 titles deal with the following topics: computer-assisted instruction; school characteristics and reading achievement; the process of reading acquisition; on-task behavior, teacher involvement, and reading achievement; the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Behavioral Objectives
Eide, Kjell – 1978
In this speech the author examines the contact points between education and the world of work and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the relation of the two systems. He identifies and evaluates the following major areas of contact: (1) pre-school education, which is growing for children as both parents increasingly choose to work, but whose…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Cooperative Planning, Educational Change
Alexander, Karl L.; And Others – 1978
In investigating educational goals, academic performance, academic self-esteem, and educational attainment, researchers should realize the importance of the school environment as well as individual student characteristics. To evaluate the significance of school effects, a project was undertaken to ascertain why students in high status schools were…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, College Attendance
Klein, Lawrence R.; Ghozeil, Susan – 1979
This volume makes available to a broad readership dissertation findings from social and behavioral sciences research supported by the Employment and Training Administration. Each of twenty-one dissertations, rewritten in the vernacular, is presented in condensed form for primarily nonacademic readers. These popularized selections, which have been…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Content Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Economic Factors
Ekstrand, Lars Henric – 1978
This report is a compilation of five research papers in second language acquisition and immigrant adaptability that are part of studies conducted in Sweden over the last twenty years. (1) "Language teaching and psycho-physics" discusses basic measurement problems in the assessment of second language proficiency, where testing of writing and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age, Biculturalism, Bilingual Students
Energy and Man's Environment, Inc., Portland, OR. – 1978
The instructional materials and classroom activities described in the document are intended to aid teachers in grades 10 through 12 develop and implement educational programs dealing with energy-related issues. The document is presented in four sections. Section I explains the organization of the document and summarizes how teachers should…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Concept Teaching, Conservation Education, Curriculum Guides
BACKMAN, CARL W.; SECORD, PAUL F. – 1967
THIS REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE OF THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION FOCUSES ON THE FORCES (I.E. SOCIAL CLASS, PARENTS, PERSONALITY, CURRICULUM PURSUED, AND FRIENDS) WHICH INFLUENCE STUDENTS TO REMAIN IN SCHOOL OR DROP OUT. IN THE CLASSROOM SITUATION, THE TEACHER, THROUGH THE USE OF POWER, AND THE PEER GROUP, THROUGH GROUP NORMS, HAVE THE MOST…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Classroom Environment, College Students, Educational Environment
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 40 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of oral reading of literature by teachers on reading attitudes of fourth grade students; (2) two instructional programs for teaching first grade…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basal Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education
