This study investigates how 15 Design & Technology (D&T) students (aged 15 years) participated in three stages of the design process in a technology mediated environment. The three stages are named "Situation," "Ideation" and "Development." The learning process is mediated by "Knowledge Forum" (KF),…

The present study describes students flows before and after the latest reform of upper secondary school in which a third year as well as a new grading system and new entrance requirements were introduced in vocational programmes. Published and unpublished data on student flows through upper secondary school before and after implementation of the…

The ECTS grade transfer scale is an interface grade scale to help European universities, students and employers to understand the level of student achievement. Hence, the ECTS scale can be seen as an interface, transforming local scales to a common system where A-E denote passing grades. By definition, ECTS should distribute the passing students…

We provide an interpretation of authority in schools among a convenience sample teacher candidates. We analyzed responses of a convenience sample of thirty-one undergraduate interns enrolled in two cohorts of block methods courses at a southern urban university. Approximately four of five students consented to have their reflections analyzed. The…

In the period after the collapse of the Soviet Union, cadre problems in Russian science gradually came to be included among the problems that are the most pressing and whose solutions need to be given top priority. The mass exodus of young and middle-aged qualified specialists from scientific research institutes, design bureaus, and scientific…

Recent models of human capital formation represent a synthesis of the human capital approach and a life cycle view of human development that is grounded in neuroscience (Heckman 2007). This model of human development, the stability of the home and parental mental health can have notable impacts on skill development in children that may affect the…

Discusses how American experiences with death have changed since 1900 and shows how changes have served to transform attitudes and responses toward death. Compares individuals born prior to advent of atomic bomb to those born in nuclear age, and considers pervasive influence of television and other media in changing attitudes. (Author/NB)

Surveyed 65 counselors newly entering the field to examine attitudes toward women and motherhood. Results indicated that counselors who work with adolescents and families have more liberal attitudes toward women than nonfamily counselors, and women were more liberal than men. (JAC)

Analyses were performed by sex on four waves of panel data from high school and college-age cohorts, using adolescent/college-age data as well as data from young adulthood, and on multiple subsamples of adolescents who participated in the 1978 National Study of Adolescent Drinking. Results showed one common factor, unconventionality, accounts for…

Cohort analysis was used to compare changes in the prevalence of marital instability among Mexican American women with those observed among Black and Anglo women in the southwestern United States. Recent (1960-70) trends were found to be toward increased divergence in levels of marital instability among these three groups. (Author/GC)

The Occupational Work Ethic Inventory was completed by 2,232 of 2,274 industry workers. Comparison of 5 age groups revealed that workers aged 36 to 55 had higher scores on the ambitious dimension, suggesting they are less apathetic, irresponsible, and negligent and more conscientious, enthusiastic, hard working, independent, persistent, and…

Conducted cohort analyses on data obtained from Danish Cause-of-Death statistics on suicide registered during years 1922-91. Although some differences could be found as to course of events during life span of cohorts and also when material was adjusted for sex, no significant differences could be found between various birth cohorts in total rates…

Comparison of cohort that entered law firms between 1969 and 1973 and one that entered between 1980 and 1983 showed women are considerably less likely to be promoted and slightly more likely to leave. Gap between male and female partnerships rates at years years' experience falls from 32-14%. Probability of promotion for women was greater in the…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether an early call-up strategy helps in attracting better students to a private university in Lebanon. Early admission call-up was administered to the top 25 percentile-ranked students of main feeder schools at a private university in Lebanon. Admission data was accrued for students who applied for…

The third-year evaluation of the federally funded Washington, D.C. voucher program shows that low-income students offered vouchers in the first two years of the program had modestly higher reading scores after three years but showed no significant difference in mathematics. Students were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups, and the…