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Peer reviewedHelms, Janet E. – Journal of Black Psychology, 1993
Argues that little of what Michael L. Penn, Stanley O. Gaines, and Layli Phillips (1993) have to say in their article "On the Desirability of Own-Group Preference" about ethnic own-group preference is new and that it is distorted and naive interpretation of social history to carry on the tradition of blaming African Americans for the…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Blacks, Ethnicity, Group Membership
Direct linkHaviland, Amelia M.; Nagin, Daniel S. – Psychometrika, 2005
A central theme of research on human development and psychopathology is whether a therapeutic intervention or a turning-point event, such as a family break-up, alters the trajectory of the behavior under study. This paper lays out and applies a method for using observational longitudinal data to make more confident causal inferences about the…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Causal Models, Inferences, Longitudinal Studies
Hatch, Katharine D.; McCarthy, Christopher J. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2005
This study examined the long-term effects of participation in a half-day, low-element challenge course on the group functioning of members of college student organizations. Seventy-six participants completed measures of group cohesion, group effectiveness, and individual effectiveness within the group at four points in time: (a) one week prior to…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Student Organizations, College Students, Student Participation
Forum on Education Abroad, 2006
In 2006, the Forum on Education Abroad conducted a State of the Field Survey of its membership. This survey is meant to be the first of an annual assessment of what is on the minds of Forum members and, by extension, the field of education abroad in general. The 2006 survey was developed and designed by the Forum Data Committee with input form the…
Descriptors: Mail Surveys, Professional Associations, Study Abroad, Educational Attitudes
Mika, Marie – Social Forces, 2006
This article addresses social movement framing, generally, and within contemporary animal rights movements specifically by conducting focus group analyses of a non-activist population. This contrasts with previous studies of recruitment that have examined the conversion process retroactively, culling data from those already involved in a cause. By…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Focus Groups, Animals, Political Attitudes
Download full textHon, Linda Childers; And Others – 1996
A survey was conducted to examine whether an underlying structure existed among items related to the practice of diversity, particularly practices related to diversity as an institutional process versus diversity as an assured outcome. The survey also examined whether a structure existed among items related to attitudes and beliefs about the…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Faculty, Diversity (Institutional), Full Time Faculty
Tonso, Karen L. – 1994
In a nontraditional engineering course students participated in internships in which they worked in teams for local industry or government clients to develop an engineering solution to an open-ended problem. This paper focuses on one of the teams as it solved the problem and explores the organization of the team's work within the constraints of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Course Content, Engineering Education
Zareh, Frances; Mayer, Stephen – 1983
Research on white college males has shown that people have a more complex schema regarding in-groups than out-groups. In an attempt to replicate the studies (Linville and Jones) on cognitive complexity and liking with a noncollege, racially and sexually mixed population, 60 randomly selected adult males and females read three vignettes describing…
Descriptors: Adults, Attribution Theory, Bias, Blacks
Douglass, Rebecca S. – 1984
A study was conducted to define a set of alternative organizational models to help overcome current obstacles to Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS) membership and set the stage for maximum utilization of the cost efficiencies and program improvement benefits of collaborative curriculum development. The methodology…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Competency Based Education, Consortia, Coordination
Cook, Stuart W. – 1980
Proposals to use interracial/cross-ethnic learning teams in desegregated classrooms raise issues from research that demonstrate the complicated nature of the relationship between learning teams and classroom interracial relations. According to the research, relationships are affected by the characteristics of learning teams, namely…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competition, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Behavior
Cerf, J. George; And Others – 1982
Research concerning crafts-artists in the United States involved two phases: a survey of craft organizations and members and a survey of professional and subscriber crafts-artists. This report describes the sampling, data collection, and data processing procedures used in the surveys, describes the questionnaires and other materials sent to crafts…
Descriptors: Adults, Craft Workers, Enrollment, Group Membership
Burstein, Leigh – 1981
Research on school reform efforts and reform evaluation and the recognition that individual students are in constant transition and are members of multiple groups whose dynamics differ over the duration of schooling were examined. A conceptual framework for developing design and analysis strategies for investigating educational reform efforts is…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Group Membership, Instructional Innovation
Ade, William – 1982
A study of 107 Illinois elementary school teachers who were enrolled in graduate courses investigated the relationship between teacher characteristics and congruity, incongruity, and inconsistency with the policies of two teacher associations. The teacher characteristics consisted of age, educational attainment, interest in politics, membership in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Policy, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
ALEXANDER, FRANK D.; HARSHAW, JEAN – 1964
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY EXAMINED CHARACTERISTICS OF 1,128 HOME DEMONSTRATION UNITS TO SUGGEST HYPOTHESES AND SCOPE FOR A MORE INTENSIVE STUDY OF A SMALL SAMPLE OF UNITS, AND TO PROVIDE GUIDANCE IN SAMPLING. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM A SPECIALLY DESIGNED MEMBERSHIP CARD USED IN 1962. UNIT SIZE AVERAGED 23.6 MEMBERS BUT THE RANGE WAS FAIRLY GREAT. A NEED…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Children, Clubs, Educational Background
Nashville - Davidson County Metropolitan Public Schools, TN. – 1980
This guide presents a two phase program for teaching communication skills in the elementary grades. The first phase focuses on teaching the conditions that constitute an effective group and the communications skills necessary for effective group relationships. Definitions of terms are presented to teachers as well as suggestions for teaching and…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Group Behavior, Group Discussion
