The purpose of this research paper is to find a correlation between peer, genetic, and environmental influences and the behavior and personality development during childhood. This study focuses on the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre to try to explain certain kinds of behavior. The study made on 275 freshmen at Cornell University showed that…

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and the Division of Violence Prevention in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collaborated to conduct a rigorous impact evaluation of programs aimed at improving students' behavior. For this evaluation, such programs were termed Social…

THIS PROJECT ANALYZED PERSONALITY CHANGES IN COLLEGE WOMEN AS MEASURED BY A DISCHRONIC SERIES OF TEST BATTERIES. THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO DETERMINE THOSE CHANGES WHICH HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT, ATTITUDES, VALUES, AND OPINIONS OF AN EXTENSIVELY TESTED SAMPLE OF COLLEGE WOMEN. SIX GRADUATING SENIOR CLASSES AND SIX ENTERING…

The authors examined the prediction of occupational attainment by age 40 from contextual and personal variables assessed during childhood and adolescence in 2 participant samples: (a) the Columbia County Longitudinal Study, a study of 856 third graders in a semirural county in New York State that began in 1960, and (b) the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal…

The United Cerebral Palsy of Queens Center conducted a creative dramatics workshop for mental handicaps. Main objectives of the workshop were personality development and social improvement toward better job potential in the outside employment situation. (TA)

This mental health curriculum guide, intended for use with children in grades four through six, further develops the concepts and understandings introduced in the primary grades. The contents of the guide are presented in outline form and cover the family as a social unit, role arrangements in family life, and the construct of personality. For…

Supporting earlier research evidence showing that participation in school activities is related to later positive cognitive, social, and personality development, the findings of this study suggest that the advantages for the well rounded development of the individual student in small schools--those graduating 150 or fewer students per year--may…

THIS STUDY EXPLORED THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS AND, IN PARTICULAR, TEACHER PERSONALITY SIGNIFICANCE. TO CLARIFY THE CONCEPT OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING, INFORMATION ON THE NATURE OF SPECIFIC KINDS OF TEACHERS WAS SOUGHT. INTERVIEWS AND UNSTRUCTURED OBSERVATIONS OF INSERVICE TEACHERS WERE CONDUCTED. A STUDY WAS ALSO…

THE EDUCATION AND ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TOTALLY DEAF IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SOCIETY WERE DESCRIBED. DISCUSSED IN DETAIL WERE THE FOLLOWING TOPICS--(1) A DESCRIPTIVE MODEL OF DEAF INDIVIDUALS, (2) EDUCATION OF THE DEAF, (3) SIGN LANGUAGE, AND (4) EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH IN LANGUAGE AND CONCEPT FORMATION. THESE DISCUSSIONS SUGGESTED THAT THE…

SUCCESSFUL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PUPILS FROM LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS IN DEPRESSED NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE URBAN NORTH ARE COMPARED WITH AVERAGE AND FAILING PUPILS FROM IDENTICAL SETTINGS. THE AIM OF THE 3 YEAR PROJECT IS TO DOCUMENT DIFFERENT PATTERNS OF PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND TO RELATE THESE PATTERNS TO SCHOLASTIC PERFORMANCE. EMPHASIS IS ON…