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Download full textTashakkori, Abbas; Thompson, Vaida D. – 1990
This research explored the effects of a number of factors derived from extant intention-behavior models on a general behavioral intention to engage in protection against Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and a specific behavioral intention to use condoms as protection in vaginal sex. Data pertaining to beliefs, knowledge about AIDS, fear…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Beliefs, Black Students, College Students
Fitzgerald, Jill; Markham, Lynda R. – 1987
A study investigated the effects of direct instruction in the process of revision on students' knowledge of the revision process, their ability to make revisions on paper, and the quality of their writing. Subjects, 30 sixth grade students, were divided into an experimental and a control group. The experimental group received instruction in the…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Knowledge Level, Learning Processes
Center for the Study of Community Colleges, Los Angeles, CA. – 1983
The General Academic Assessment (GAA), an instrument designed to measure students' knowledge of the liberal arts, was developed by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges for use by community colleges to informing decisions about curriculum modifications and estimating institutional outcomes. The instrument, which includes 29 demographic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Knowledge Level, Liberal Arts
Hudson, Vivian D. – 1986
This practicum addressed the expressed need to improve the knowledge and expertise of the teaching staff employed at a child-parent center, which served 170 preschool and kindergarten children attending classes in an elementary school in an economically depressed community. Specifically, the in-service intervention aimed to immprove staff…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Faculty Development
Cardozier, V. R. – 1985
The process of recruiting and selecting college faculty at a new college, the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, is discussed. The university was established in September 1973 to serve students who would complete 2 years at community/junior colleges in the Permian Basin area. The school's mission and the two towns near the college are…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Interpersonal Competence
Carey, Susan; And Others – 1988
One goal of science educators is to help students to understand the nature of scientific knowledge and reasoning. Reported are ideas related to what junior high students do, can and should know about the nature of science and the use of technology in imparting such knowledge. The studies reported in this document are designed to probe junior high…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Epistemology, Inquiry, Junior High School Students
Beins, Bernard C. – 1987
Students in a college introductory statistics class were evaluated with conceptual and computational tests and the relationship between their levels of knowledge on the two forms of testing was assessed. There were significant correlations between their abilities to perform computations and to answer more conceptual questions on individual tests…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Mathematics, Comprehension, Computation
Clegg, Ambrose A.; And Others – 1988
A study was conducted in Cuyahoga Community College's (Ohio) Principles of Economics classes to determine: (1) whether microcomputer-assisted instruction using tutorial/drill programs would significantly increase students' learning of economic concepts as measured by pre- and post-tests; (2) the relationship between demographic variables and pre-…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conventional Instruction
Klein, Daniel; And Others – 1983
A study investigated the impact of sex education on current high school students and high school alumni. Studied were the views of current students and alumni, about the achievement of 33 program outcomes, at two high schools (one in the East and the other in the Midwest) identified as having exemplary sex education programs. The Sex Education…
Descriptors: Followup Studies, High School Graduates, High School Students, High Schools
Rabinowitz, Mitchell; Valentine, Kim M. – 1984
Predicting that when presented with a general context children and adults would produce different specific inferences, a study examined children's and adults' script representations of a common event and the use of representation in comprehension. In the first phase of the study, 23 fourth grade and 48 college students were asked to generate…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students
McKinney, C. Warren; And Others – 1988
This research study was designed to assess preservice elementary education teachers' knowledge of world geography. The "High School Subject Tests: World Geography," developed by Scott, Foresman and Company for use with high school students, was administered to 124 undergraduate elementary education majors enrolled in social studies…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Chambliss, Catherine – 1987
Undergraduate students' educational needs concerning Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and the faculty role in AIDS education are discussed. Results of a study at the Ursinus College (Pennsylvania) campus to assess both knowledge of and attitudes toward AIDS are summarized. Seventy-three percent of the 141 Introductory Psychology students…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, College Faculty, College Students, Communicable Diseases
Springate, Kay W. – 1983
Forty-eight children, equally divided among three-, four-, and five-year-old groups, were subjects in a study that explored the development and interrelationships among several facets of writing knowledge and reading readiness skills. Three categories of tasks were administered: knowledge of functions, knowledge of forms, and reading readiness…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Child Development, Handwriting
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1978
National performance for 17-year-olds in school, 17-year-olds not in school and young adults aged 26-35 in the area of career and occupational development (COD) was assessed to determine whether or not education status and career development skills are related. Within each of the groups, performance of various subgroups was examined, defined by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Age Groups, Basic Skills
Saveland, Robert N., Ed. – 1980
The objective of this study was to find out with what major geographic place names, various 13-year-old children from different countries were familiar. Anglo-American, Latin American, Western European, African, Asian, and Arab cultures were represented among the countries participating in the project. A sampling of students (usually at least 300)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cultural Differences
