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Download full textSHELDON, WILLIAM D. – 1968
THE EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS IN THE MOBILE SUBURBS (THE MEGALOPOLIS) ARE AS SERIOUS IN MAGNITUDE AND TOTAL EFFECT AS THOSE OF THE MUCH PUBLICIZED CENTER CITY. BECAUSE OF THE MOBILITY AND THE HETEROGENIETY OF THESE AREAS, MANY STUDENTS RECEIVE INADEQUATE EDUCATION AND ENTER SOCIETY AS SEMILITERATES. AN ANALYSIS OF CENTERVILLE, A TYPICAL MAGALOPOLITAN…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Educational Needs, Educational Problems, Environmental Influences
Burrows, Kathryn, Ed. – Coombe Lodge Report, 1974
This is a report of a conference concerned with educating "less-able" 16-19 year old students within the British school system. These students vary from being physically handicapped, to educationally "sub-normal," to simply lacking in vocational skills. Topics of papers presented include: defining disadvantaged young people,…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Curriculum Development, Daily Living Skills, Disadvantaged Youth
Schulz, Harriette – 1975
The publication contains abstracts and annotated bibliographical references of research projects and programs in adult basic education. The projects and programs cited represent the results of a survey to search out studies that delineate project population, methods, materials, and results. The survey was designed to limit the time period covered…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Adult Education
Farmer, George L. – 1969
This document considers the education of Oriental Americans a dilemma, since the Oriental-American minority is reported to represent proportionately the highest educated group in the U.S., bears a pluralistic and bicultural background, and a long history of having been subjected to restrictions and exploitation in the American West. The main…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Community
Birch, D. W.; And Others – 1974
The teaching function is examined to determine an improved budgetary planning and control system as well as comparisons across universities and polytechnics. The inputs, outcomes and processes of the teaching function are identified and defined, with available data collected and measured with reference to those defined variables and parameters.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conference Reports, Data Processing, Dropout Rate
Benjamin, Barbara Cohen; And Others – 1976
The Learning Skills Center (LSC) at Los Angeles City College is an individualized learning laboratory which offers assistance to students in communication skills and quantitative skills, and provides tutoring in all college-level courses. ISC's programs are diagnostic and prescriptive, and services are available to students on both voluntary and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Bibliographies, Community Colleges, Dropout Rate
Husband, Robert L. – 1976
Specific factors related to attrition at Spring Arbor College were identified, along with several basic problems with attrition-retention studies found in a review of the literature. Using the "significant other" model, this project differed from the general research by taking a relational perspective to the problem of attrition. The…
Descriptors: Attendance, College Students, Dropouts, Enrollment Trends
Nichols, Irene A.; Shauffer, Carole B. – 1975
This study examined the relationship between self-concept and two measures of academic performance, achievement and attrition. The Tennessee Self Concept Scale (TSCS) was administered to 158 female junior college freshmen. data were collected on achievement (GPA), attrition (Drop nontransfers, Transfers, Persisters), academic ability (SAT), and…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Dropouts
PDF pending restorationHaenn, Joseph F.; And Others – 1976
The subject mortality problems of an experimental design which covers the period of student recruitment through posttesting over a 13-month period, is detailed in this study. Out of an effective applicant pool of 72 students randomly assigned to experimental and control groups, only 38 students remained at the end of the study with complete test…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Career Education, Control Groups, Dropouts
Kantor, Jeffrey E.; Guinn, Nancy – 1975
The performance and career progression of a sample of 20,705 airmen were monitored throughout their initial tour of service. For comparative purposes, this sample was divided into high school graduate and nongraduate groups and further subdivided by Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFOT) mental categories. Points of comparison included:…
Descriptors: Ability, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Dropouts
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Evaluation. – 1972
In 1971-72, 1,045 school districts in the State of Texas provided supplementary instruction and/or services to educationally/economically disadvantaged children through the use of Federal funds made available under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The number of pupils who have participated in these projects has…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Dropouts, Educational Diagnosis
Bly, Ervin; Anderson, Floyd L. – 1969
Prepared by an instructor and a curriculum development specialist, this course of study was designed to meet the individual needs of the dropout and/or hard-core unemployed youth by providing skill training, related information, and supportive services knowledge about offset printing. The course provides training in offset printing and related…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Curriculum Guides
Wisconsin State Board of Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education, Madison. – 1970
Followup is a process by which an educational institution seeks to determine how effectively it is meeting the current and future needs of those it serves. Various research, administrative and student personnel at district and state levels helped develop these guidelines, which are intended to give assistance to vocational, technical, and adult…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Dropout Research, Educational Research, Followup Studies
Frazier, William Donald – 1966
This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of two types of vocational education programs in improving students' social and vocational adjustment and success. In a comparison between dropout rehabilitation and high school vocational graduates, 92 graduates of the Oklahoma City Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) Youth Program…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Programs
Rothman, Esther P. – 1970
The author describes her experiences as principal of the Livingston School for Girls (New York City) which was created for delinquent adolescents suspended from regular schools. Using specific incidents and personal interpretations, the author discusses the policy and objectives of the school through descriptions of the girls themselves,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Delinquency, Disadvantaged Youth
