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Haring, Marilyn J.; Nelsen, Edward A. – 1980
Three hundred and eighteen education graduates were surveyed in order to investigate the quality of training they had received in field or campus teacher-preparation programs in elementary education at a large southwestern university. Graduates rated on a scale of 1-5 the quality of training they had received for 44 teaching skills listed in the…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Educational Quality, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Gotts, E. E. – 1979
This final report reviews and evaluates the work completed by the Early Childhood and Parenting Research Program between June 1, 1978 and November 30, 1979. The first project described is the Home Oriented Preschool Education (HOPE) Follow-Up Study. The HOPE Follow-Up Study was designed to examine the effects of HOPE treatments on children and…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Data Collection, Early Experience
Stennett, R. G.; Isaacs, Lorna
The number and characteristics of ninth grade students who ran a high risk of not successfully completing their ninth grade program were investigated. With the assistance of the school guidance counselors data were collected with two forms, one which contained information from teachers about students identified as "high risk" in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Articulation (Education), Failure, Followup Studies
SULEK, HELEN – 1967
TWENTY-EIGHT VOCATIONAL HOME ECONOMICS TEACHERS FROM 20 STATES PARTICIPATED IN A 6-WEEK SUMMER WORKSHOP FOR FIVE CREDIT HOURS IN TWO COURSES DEALING WITH CHILD CARE. THE PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED TO PREPARE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS TO SET UP OCCUPATIONAL CHILD-CARE AIDE TRAINING PROGRAMS AND TO STRENGTHEN THEIR ACADEMIC BACKGROUND IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Child Development, Curriculum Guides, Day Care
STEIN, ANNIE; WOLFF, MAX – 1966
KINDERGARTENS IN FOUR PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS (ONE NEGRO, TWO PUERTO RICAN, AND ONE MIXED) IN NEW YORK CITY WERE STUDIED TO DETERMINE WHETHER A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTAL EFFECT HAD RESULTED FROM A SUMMER HEAD START PROGRAM. THE PERFORMANCE OF 179 FORMER HEAD START CHILDREN WAS MEASURED AGAINST 388 OF THEIR NON-HEAD START CLASSMATES. SEVEN…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Behavior Development, Black Education, Early Childhood Education
Harrison, George F. – 1980
A study compared the academic achievement and job market success of academically and/or economically disadvantaged and nondisadvantaged vocational education students. Data from student records and transcripts and employer follow-ups were collected on 2,191 students enrolled in vocational majors in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Students were classified…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Krusemark, Fred; Dege, Dolores – 1978
BORN FREE is a project designed as a collaborative effort of university-based counseling psychologists and field-site educators to reduce career-related sex stereotyping in 14 educational institutions. This is the second-year evaluation of the project. The report introduction states the purpose and organization of the report, describes the…
Descriptors: Careers, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Primavera, Joanne M. – 1980
In view of new federal guidelines, a project sought to write a procedure for identifying disadvantaged, handicapped, and/or nontraditional students and set up a monitoring system in the Renton Vocational Technical Institute. A literature review showed no practical tracking system had been published. The identification procedure developed included…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Selgas, James W. – 1977
In 1976, a transfer and employment follow-up survey was conducted of 696 Associate of Arts and certificate students who had graduated between December 1974 and August 1975 from Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC). Responses, which were received from 70% of the graduates, indicated that (1) 93% would recommend HACC; (2) 72% were currently…
Descriptors: College Credits, Community Colleges, Employment, Evaluation
Milne, Ann M.; And Others – 1975
This study describes research on the impact of three intensive health curriculum models (respiratory, circulatory, and nervous systems) administered at the fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-grades on the knowledge levels, attitudes, and health behaviors of teenage students. The hypotheses of the study were that students enrolled in one or more units of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cardiovascular System, Cognitive Development
Lazar, Irving; And Others – 1978
This second general technical report of the Consortium for Longitudinal Studies summarizes the findings of current analyses of longitudinal studies of low income children who participated in experimental preschool programs initiated in the 1960s and includes additional data and further analyses of the 1976-77 follow-up study. The pooled data bank…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Achievement Rating, Disadvantaged Youth
Lord, Francis E.; Blaha, Lawrence E. – 1968
To study the needs for orientation and mobility training in Los Angeles County, project a comprehensive training program, and demonstrate a model service in representative regions, 51 blind adolescents (23 girls and 28 boys) ranging in age from 13 to 21 were given an average of 108 class periods of intensive, individual training by orientation and…
Descriptors: Blindness, Case Records, Demonstration Programs, Exceptional Child Research
PLAUT, RICHARD L. – 1957
THIS PUBLICATION DISCUSSES APPROACHES TO THE SEARCH FOR ACADEMIC POTENTIAL AMONG DISADVANTAGED SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, PARTICULARLY THE EFFORTS OF THE NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP SERVICE AND FUND FOR NEGRO STUDENTS (NSSFNS) TO MOTIVATE AND FINANCIALLY AID DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS TO ATTEND INTERRACIAL COLLEGES. BETWEEN 1952 AND 1954, THE NSSFNS SOUTHERN…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Desegregation, Community Involvement, Community Organizations
Fairholm, G.W.; And Others – 1968
This study was conducted to develop quantitative and qualitative productivity standards, work measures, and activity reports to facilitate effective budgeting for library staff in the State University of New York (SUNY) library system. The research methodology used by the study team involved a survey of 11 libraries of the 22 institutions in the…
Descriptors: Administration, Budgeting, College Libraries, Followup Studies
Terman, Lewis M., Ed. – 1959
The 35 years' followup of the Terman investigation on the gifted child is presented. In order to describe the gifted group of mid-life, a general information blank was mailed in 1950 (1,437 subjects) and in 1955 (1,424 subjects). The field study, completed in 1952, included personal interviews, the Concept Mastery Test, supplementary…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior, Demography, Educational Background
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