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Peer reviewedSwift, Marshall S.; Spivack, George – Exceptional Children, 1973
Reported were data on the classroom functioning of 602 high school students attending eight different urban ghetto schools, including assessments of reasoning ability, verbal productivity, original and independent thinking, anxiety, rapport, obstreperousness, negativism, withdrawal, and expression of inability to cope with achievement demands.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
Download full textHyland, Patricia K.; Keaton, Constance J. – 1994
The intent of this study was to reduce the numbers of off-task behaviors of a group of 32 sixth-grade students in an economically disadvantaged, urban, junior high school. The subjects of the study were given the materials (paper, the mathematics book, and pencils) and seated before the tardy bell. Following teacher graphing of each of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedMaxwell, Bruce Edward – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1992
Empirical evidence from a study of 15 male and 12 female abused, neglected, troubled, or homeless adolescents in a St. Louis (Missouri) shelter indicates greater hostility and depression and lower self-esteem for these subjects than for those in comparative studies of the 3 measures (hostility, depression, and self-esteem) used. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
