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Hochbaum, Godfrey M. – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1978
Behavior change is the overriding, if not the only, goal in health education. Implications of this fact for the nature and method for educational diagnosis, curriculums, educational strategy, and evaluation are discussed. (Author/MJB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Philosophy
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Crano, William D.; Aronoff, Joel – American Sociological Review, 1978
The results of this study indicate that while women are strongly committed to expressive activities during the infancy of their children, the intensity of this commitment decreases substantially in early childhood. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Family Involvement
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Fontein, Hazel – Social Education, 1978
Maintains that most discipline problems arise when students are asked to perform beyond their capabilities. Outlines several techniques for teaching social studies to slow learners. Techniques involve students in group reading, simulations, globe and map drills, neighborhood surveys, and art projects. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Discipline Problems, Elementary Education
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Bushway, Ann; Nash, William R. – Review of Educational Research, 1977
Cheating in the classroom appears to be widespread at all levels of American education. This research review examines: (1) characteristics of cheaters, (2) situational factors influencing the student's decision to cheat or not to cheat, and (3) reasons for cheating, as reported by students. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cheating, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Schofield, Janet Ward; Sagar, H. Andrew – Integrated Education, 1977
This study of seating patterns in a middle school shows that race is an extremely important grouping criterion even for children who have chosen to attend a desegregated school. Sex was found to be an even stronger grouping criterion. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Desegregation Effects, Elementary Education, Group Dynamics
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Reddin, W. J. – Group and Organization Studies, 1977
The author presents a synthesized typology of leader behavior. The behavior typology is built on the dimensions of task orientation, relationship orientation, and leader effectiveness. There are eight resulting leader types: more effective-high relationship orientation-high task orientation to less effective-low relationship orientation-low task…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Group Dynamics, Leadership
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Gollub, Wendy Leebov; Sloan, Earline – Urban Education, 1978
This article synthesizes research findings that establish the relationship between teacher expectancy effect and the social evils of poverty and prejudice. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Bias, Minority Groups, Negative Attitudes
Science News, 1976
Recent research indicates that early right brain hemisphere specialization for spatial tasks may be due to sex differences. Early specialization has been demonstrated in males asked to perform spatial tasks. An apparently longer period of female brain plasticity may explain why males have a higher incidence of developmental language problems. (MA)
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Developmental Psychology
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Argyris, Chris – American Psychologist, 1976
Results suggest that adults may not be able to discover-invent-produce the learning that is necessary to behave more effectively; that they may be unaware of this possibility; and that if they try to get help from well intentioned others, it will tend to make things worse. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Conceptual Schemes
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Bernard, Jessie – Journal of Social Issues, 1976
Sex-role change is examined in terms of three models which focus on the relationship between norm and behavior in the process of change. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Conceptual Schemes
Thompson, Charles L.; Hicks, Margaret Brabson – Together, 1976
The study focused on the effect of an experienced group leader on subrole behavior of eighth-grade students (N=26) participating in group counseling sessions. Results indicated skilled leaders maintain group focus as evidenced by larger number of growth subrole behaviors and fewer incidences of nongrowth subrole behavior in leader-led groups.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Group Counseling, Group Dynamics, Interaction Process Analysis
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Catlin, Nancy; And Others – College Student Journal, 1976
Cohabitating college couples (N=89) responded to a questionnaire pertaining to their current sexual relationships and individual sexual behavior patterns, historical and present. Results indicate that those individuals, especially the males, had been unusually precocious in their sexual development. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Higher Education, Marital Status
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Goldbart, Stephen; Cooper, Lowell – Small Group Behavior, 1976
Non-task-oriented activities that take place in a therapy group are conceived of as processes geared towards establishing and reassuring safety. The authors take an existentialist Langian approach to safety and discuss the notion that necessarily unresolved perceptions of ontological insecurity act upon members as individuals and as a group. (NG)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Existentialism, Group Dynamics, Group Therapy
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Strassberg, Donald S.; And Others – Small Group Behavior, 1976
This study sought to explore the pattern of self-disclosure in parent discussion groups. Subjects were 16 parents. Patterns of self-disclosure to occur contiguously, suggesting that reciprocity in self-disclosure is a general phenomenon operating in a variety of group settings. (NG)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Group Dynamics, Interaction Process Analysis, Parent Child Relationship
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Eran, Mordechai; Jacobson, Dan – Journal of Gerontology, 1976
Vroom's expectancy theory model to predict older worker's choices between employment or retirement hypothesized that a person's preference would be a function of differences between instrumentality of employment and retirement for attainment of outcomes, multiplied by the valence of each outcome, summed over outcomes. Results supported the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Males, Models, Older Adults
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