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Sosin, Kim; And Others – Journal of Economic Education, 1997
Uses test questions from the Basic Economics Test (BET) to reveal that elementary students are capable of understanding economics concepts. Maintains that neither ethnic background nor parental income makes a difference in economic learning. The most statistically significant determinant of improved scores was the extent to which a concept was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Glasgow, Kristan L.; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Examined contemporaneous and predictive relations between parenting styles, adolescents' attributions, and educational outcomes. Found that adolescents who perceived their parents as nonauthoritative were more likely than peers to attribute achievement outcomes to external causes or low ability. The higher the proportion of dysfunctional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Asian Americans, Attribution Theory
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Miller, Sandra E.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1988
Ethnographic methods were used to assess three learning-disabled and three normal tenth and eleventh grade boys at a school with an unusually low dropout rate. Institutional, classroom, and interpersonal factors behind the schools' student retention ability are described. (TJH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Dropouts, Ethnography
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Witte, John F.; Walsh, Daniel J. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1990
Cross-sectional data are presented on the relation between school achievement and measures of school environment (particularly effective schools characteristics) for 38 high schools, 32 middle schools, and 134 elementary schools in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. School environment was assessed through a survey of 5,500 teachers. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Sectional Studies, Educational Environment, Effective Schools Research
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Burns, Barbara; Hagerman, Alison – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1989
Discussion of achievement motivation and children's ideas about themselves as learners focuses on a study of third graders that examined the effects of LOGO programing on performance. Incremental and entity theories of intelligence are explained, and treatment of the experimental group and the control group are described. (26 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Ethington, Corinna A.; Wolfle, Lee M. – American Educational Research Journal, 1988
Factors influencing women's decisions to pursue undergraduate degrees in quantitative fields were studied, using a structural equation model. Significant factors in High School and Beyond study data included courses taken in high school, student socioeconomic status, parental attitudes, and choice of study field as a high school sophomore. (TJH)
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Choice, College Preparation, Course Selection (Students)
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Marcinkiewicz, Henryk R. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1994
Reports on a study examining how well several personal variables predict elementary school teachers' use of computers for teaching. Variables examined included innovativeness, teacher locus of control, perceived relevance of computers, and self-competence in using computers. Data on age, gender, and years of computer experience were also…
Descriptors: Competence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy
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Rocheleau, Bruce – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1995
Studies patterns of computer use based on data from the National Science Foundation's Longitudinal Study of American Youth in which 7th- and 10th-grade students were surveyed for five consecutive years. Highlights include parental backgrounds; socioeconomic status; parental attitudes; student attitudes; gender differences; computer ownership; and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Games, Computer Use
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Levendosky, Alytia A.; And Others – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1995
Depression and maltreatment were analyzed as predictors of childhood adjustment problems, with 68 children (ages 8 through 12) at high risk due to poverty, physical abuse, and neglect. Depression and maltreatment predicted parents' and teachers' ratings of social competence. Depression also predicted parents' ratings of peer rejection, children's…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Depression (Psychology)
Duncan, Greg J.; Wei-Jun, Yeung J. – Children and Youth Services Review, 1995
Examines the consequences for children of life in families that receive at least part of their income from welfare. Suggests these children appear to complete less schooling, even after adjustment for other differences between recipient and nonrecipient families. Low family income and maternal employment are also found to reduce completed…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Children
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Weitzman, Beth C.; And Others – American Journal of Public Health, 1992
Studies the degree to which psychiatric and substance abuse problems and victimization place families at elevated risk of requiring emergency housing and prevalence of these problems among 677 mothers in families requesting shelter and 495 comparison-group housed mothers in New York City. Problems, reported infrequently, correlate with…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Comparative Analysis, Crisis Intervention, Economically Disadvantaged
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Everett, James E.; Armstrong, Robert W. – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 1990
A University of Western Australia market segmentation study for the masters program in business administration examined the relationship between Graduate Management Admission Test scores, work experience, faculty of undergraduate degree, gender, and academic success in the program. Implications of the results for establishing admission criteria…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Bachelors Degrees, Business Administration Education, College Administration
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Brady, Beverly A.; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1992
Study examined whether adaptive and maladaptive functioning related to academic achievement in African-American and white students. Parent interviews indicated adaptive and maladaptive behaviors predicted grade point average and achievement test scores for white students, but only maladaptive behavior predicted scores for African-American…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Black Students, Communication Skills
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Collis, Betty – International Journal of Instructional Media, 1992
This second article in a two-part series on telecommunications in secondary schools examines strategies for better support of telecommunications implementation. Highlights include management strategies for CMC (computer-mediated communication) use; instructional strategies for online database inquiries; teacher support strategies; simulation…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Simulation, Courseware
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Howden, Norman; Dillard, John – Special Libraries, 1991
Discusses various types of technology used in online searching based on a survey of special libraries and online search services in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The use of modem control programs, gateway software packages, CD-ROM, and LANs (local area networks) is examined, and intermediary searching versus end-user searching is considered. (10…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Gateway Systems, Information Centers, Information Technology
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