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Download full textTierney, Robert J. – 1988
This study of the Apple Classroom of Tomorrow (ACOT) environment focused on the potential of a computer-saturated environment to facilitate students' thinking processes. Four approaches were used: (1) a longtitudinal approach to study student growth and development; (2) observations of students' behavior while writing with the computer to study…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 10
Cohn, Elchanan; Hughes, Woodrow W., Jr. – 1988
The issue of rates of return to educational investment over time is discussed, noting that the examination of this subject enjoyed its heyday in the middle and late 1970s. A longitudinal examination of internal rates of returns to college education for different time periods is included. Some of the reasons for reexamining the issue are: the…
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Benefits, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student
Walter, Eileen L. – 1986
A longitudinal study examined the factors that facilitate or hinder Native American children's literacy acquisition. Subjects, 18 three-year-old children attending Headstart classes on the Lummi Reservation in northwest Washington, were observed during their daily hour of free play for an entire school year. The subjects' experiences with drawing,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Classroom Environment, Early Experience
Chadsey-Rusch, Janis – 1989
The document contains materials relating to the annual meeting of the project directors working with the Secondary Transition Intervention Effectiveness Institute, held December 1-2, 1988. The document includes an agenda, summaries of 10 featured project presentations, summaries of 32 poster sessions, a list of meeting participants, and a…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Federal Government
Heim, Kathleen M. – 1990
The American Library Association's (ALA) Adult Services in the Eighties (ASE) project was undertaken to supply information about areas of current and unique concentration to aid librarians in identifying, describing, and planning the scope of adult services in their own libraries. The ASE project updates a study conducted in 1954--the most recent…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Library Extension, Library Planning, Library Services
Mortenson, Thomas G.; Wu, Zhijun – 1990
The report examines progress made over the last 20 years in expanding the opportunities for educational attainment of young adults from different family income backgrounds. Based on data from published reports of the Census Bureau, the study examined high school graduation, college matriculation, and baccalaureate degree attainment rates for 18-…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison, Educationally Disadvantaged, Enrollment
Wolcott, Ilene; Glezer, Helen – 1989
A study was conducted of the effectiveness of marriage counseling with respect to marital status and the long-term stability of relationships. Data were gathered from clients of approved Australian marriage counseling agencies (n=540) who took a pre-counseling survey during a 4-week period in October-November 1987 and a post-counseling survey 8…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Services, Family Problems, Foreign Countries
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Central Staff Office of Institutional Research. – 1990
Data on enrollments and degrees granted during the years 1948 through 1989 are provided for the community colleges under the program of the State University of New York. Data are presented for the system as a whole as well as for each campus. Fall term enrollments in credit courses are broken down by full-/part-time status and by student level…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Degrees (Academic), Enrollment
Mason, Robin – 1990
The Open University pioneered the first use of computer conferencing in mass distance education in 1988, when it was used to provide tutorial support to more than 1,300 students in the United Kingdom via electronic mail and conference messages. A study of the use of the system in the first year revealed that: (1) only one-third of the students…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Mail, Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation
King Research, Inc., Rockville, MD. – 1987
This survey is designed both to update data reported in the survey of library networks and cooperative organizations conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics in 1977-78 and to provide more specific data that will make possible more sophisticated analyses of the status of library networks and cooperative library organizations.…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Library Automation, Library Cooperation, Library Expenditures
Kreppner, Kurt – 1987
The expansion process of the family after the arrival of a second child was the focus of this longitudinal study. Sixteen families, each with one child between one and three years old and a second child born at the beginning of the study, were observed in everyday situations when one or both parents were interacting with one or both children.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Birth Order, Family Relationship, Family Structure
Brier, Ellen M.; And Others – 1987
A national sample of 337 college students who initially aspired to be physicians were studied for 9 years to determine the influence of precollege characteristics, college origins, and the academic and social experience of college on the likelihood of becoming a physician. Estimates of a 14-variable causal model indicated that the major direct…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Korthagen, Fred A. J.; Verkuyl, Hildelien S. – 1987
Reflective teaching has been the basic principle underlying the teacher education program at the Stichting Opleiding Leraren, a teacher's college in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It has been questioned, however, whether reflective teaching is equally suitable for every student. A longitudinal follow-up study was started in which the central research…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Individual Differences
Handley, Herbert M. – 1986
The effectiveness of Mississippi's Assistant Teacher Program (ATP) was evaluated after its third year of operation, determining: (1) whether first graders who were exposed to teachers and assistant teachers who had been in ATP for three years continued to make progress in academic achievement; (2) the effectiveness of ATP in fostering achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Longitudinal Studies
Terenzini, Patrick T.; Wright, Thomas M. – 1986
Influences on students' reported academic development over a 4-year period were assessed, focusing on college influences on student growth and changes each year. Tinto's model of college student attrition was found to account for about 23% of the variance in students' reports of their academic skill development over 4 years of college. For each…
Descriptors: College Students, Extracurricular Activities, Higher Education, Learning Experience
