A two-year pilot study evaluated a curriculum innovation at one rural and one urban high school in Maryland. Called the Community-Based Learning and Service (CBLS) Program, the innovation involved placing large numbers of students during part of the school day with community sponsors where they could learn about and provide community services as…

The Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, under the US Office of Education and later the National Institute of Education, designed and carried out a five year plan intended to modify its programs in ways that would enable its largely Mexican American students and community to profit more from the education offered. An…

The study of the same people at several occasions is known by various names: panel studies, multi-wave, multi-variable models, cohort analysis, and gain score analysis. The use of econometric concepts, path analysis, and structural equation analysis to study multi-wave, multi-variable models became widespread in methodological practice in the late…

A study compared employed mothers with working women who do not have children along dimensions reflective of their life histories and labor market experiences. It utilized data from two nationwide longitudinal surveys--the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women aged 14 to 24 and the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of…

A study examined the types of individuals receiving on-the-job-training and the effect of such training on productivity and earnings. Two years of data from the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (an 11-year longitudinal study with a sample size of about 200 individuals) concerning the on-the-job-training, labor market experience, and income…

This paper presents the "uses of the past" model of personality development, a model in which adult development transforms an individual's history into resources for meeting present demands. The components of the model are delineated in terms of how: (1) neither the past nor the present is fixed in its effects or its contribution to present…

Retrospective studies of the intellectual performances of children who later became psychotic adults have yielded evidence of early interference in the development of intelligence in future schizophrenics. The intellectual assessments of 153 children were examined during two test periods in the St. Louis Risk Research Project. In 1967-1972, the…

Although most people are occasionally lonely, others find loneliness to be an enduring problem. Loneliness is often associated with a variety of personality characteristics which interfere with the formation of interpersonal relationships. The interrelationship of shyness and loneliness over time and in response to varying situations was examined…

A comparative study was made between education majors at the University of Georgia (UGA) and at Georgia Southern College (GSC) in an effort to evaluate the teacher education programs of the two schools and to assess the effectiveness of competency based teacher education. A questionnaire submitted to entering education students in both schools…

These papers describe recent techniques used in followup studies of teacher education programs and suggest issues which may evolve from or be enhanced by the study findings. They provide a source of information about current efforts in planning the evaluation of teacher education programs. The first paper describes a study which was designed to…

Children's early utterances were studied to determine whether there are developmental changes in the content, context, frequency, and form of their speech and the degree to which the changes correspond to changes in Piagetian cognitive stage. Twenty children were studied; six were 10 or 11 months old, and the remaining 14 were distributed evenly…

Examined in this document are the different ways in which the age a woman has her first child might affect her later well-being. Specific questions addressed include: (1) How do teenage mothers compare later in life with young women who postpone their first birth to their early twenties? and (2) If they are less well off, what explanation can…

Findings of television research conducted in Montreal and Windsor, Canada, in February-May 1978, that studied numerous aspects of the parent-adolescent-television relationship are summarized in this report. Particular emphasis is given to differences between ethnic and English families, differences in the ways adolescent boys and girls perceive…

This study tests the general hypothesis that preschool experience has a measurable effect upon children's noncognitive development between the time they enter and the time they leave the preschool program. The California Preschool Competency Scale (CPSCS) was administered to 4-year-old children in a prekindergarten program (PreK) in the fall of…

A longitudinal study was conducted in three Maryland counties to determine the predictive validity of the Maryland Systematic Teacher Observation Instrument (MSTOI) and other initial assessment instruments as screening devices to identify kindergarten children with potential reading and/or learning difficulties. The MSTOI was also examined to…