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Basseches, Michael; Hamilton, Stephen F. – 1980
Objectives of a study of the impact of participatory-democratic work experience on adolescent development are (1) to explore the possibilities for facilitating adolescent development by promoting participatory-democratic work structure in Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) programs and to augment past research on YCC by monitoring the structure of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Control Groups
BARRITT, LOREN S.; AND OTHERS – 1967
A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO ASSESS THE CHANGES IN THE PSYCHOLINGUISTIC FUNCTIONING OF NEGRO AND WHITE KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST-GRADE PUPILS ONE YEAR AFTER THE INTEGRATION OF SIX SUBURBAN SCHOOLS. THE ILLINOIS TEST OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ABILITY WAS ADMINISTERED BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL REASSIGNMENT TO PUPILS IN (1) THE PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO URBAN SENDING…
Descriptors: Black Students, Bus Transportation, Cognitive Ability, Control Groups
BOOCOCK, SARANE S.; AND OTHERS – 1967
AN EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED TO INVESTIGATE STUDENTS' SENSE OF CONTROL OVER THEIR OWN DESTINIES, THE EFFECTS OF SIMULATION GAMES ON THESE CONTROL BELIEFS, AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF THESE ISSUES TO THE RACIAL COMPOSITION OF A SCHOOL. IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT INDIVIDUALS LACKING A SENSE OF CONTROL HAD HAD LIMITED EXPERIENCE WITH SITUATIONS WHICH COULD…
Descriptors: Black Students, Control Groups, Data, Educational Experiments
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. – 1966
PROJECT CONCERN IS A 2-YEAR EXPERIMENTAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM IN WHICH OVER 250 DISADVANTAGED YOUNGSTERS IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE FIVE ARE BUSED FROM THEIR INNER CITY SCHOOLS TO FIVE MIDDLE CLASS SUBURBAN SCHOOL SYSTEMS. IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE CHANGE IN MILIEU, WITH OR WITHOUT SOME SUPPORTIVE SERVICES, WILL CREATE POSITIVE CHANGES IN THE…
Descriptors: Black Students, Bus Transportation, Control Groups, Disadvantaged Youth
Applegate, Neil J. – 1976
Two different control groups were used to evaluate the use of pre- and post-test examination questions presented in the format of a Navy training film. The control group was given a paper-and-pencil pre- and post-test while the experimental group received the pre- and post-test questions within the context and format of the film. While no…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Comparative Testing, Control Groups, Criterion Referenced Tests
FERGUSON, EDWARD T., JR. – 1968
A COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROJECT AND COOPERATIVE METHODS OF TEACHING HIGH SCHOOL DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION IN THE COMPETENCY AREAS OF ECONOMIC UNDERSTANDING AND SALES COMPREHENSION USED (1) 251 GRADE 11 STUDENTS IN DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION PROJECT METHOD CLASSES, (2) 299 GRADE 11 STUDENTS IN SCIENCE OR ENGLISH CLASSES, (3) 216 GRADE 12…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Cooperative Education
PETERSON, JOHN F.
INFORMATION ON THE BACKGROUND AND ATTITUDES OF AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OF 191 HIGH-POTENTIAL, LOW-ACHIEVING 10TH-GRADE STUDENTS WAS SUPPLIED TO THEIR TEACHERS TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF THIS INFORMATION ON THE STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE. TEACHERS OF STUDENTS (114) IN A QUASI-CONTROL GROUP WERE INFORMED THAT THEIR PUPILS HAD TESTED AS UNDERACHIEVERS, BUT…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Control Groups, Educational Research, Experimental Groups
Kibler, Robert J., Ed. – 1964
Chapter V is made up of information on the attitudes and background of participants in an experimental freshman year program for underachieving high school graduates at Southern Illinois University. Included is a description of changes and differences among the students resulting from the experimental treatment and of the participants' reactions…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Background, College Freshmen, College Programs
White, Stroller Tod – 1967
This study investigated the extent to which the Analytic Trouble Shooting Program (ATS) trained troubleshooters in an automobile assembly plant (1) to use information about a problem to determine the cause of that problem and (2) to anticipate and prevent problems. Troubleshooters in two specific departments were general foremen, foremen, process…
Descriptors: Assembly (Manufacturing), Control Groups, Doctoral Dissertations, Engineers
Farrell, Glen Michael – 1969
This study evaluated whether effectiveness in curriculum planning groups is raised by involving a professional adult educator as a nondirective, information giving group member, or by training group chairmen in discussion leadership skills. Group effectiveness was measured by member satisfaction with the group product, satisfaction with…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Control Groups, Creativity, Curriculum Development
Dawson, George G.; Davison, Donald D. – 1973
A group of 34 experimental and 45 control teachers provided data on 1,866 pupils in 75 different classrooms in 24 communities in the United States to determine the extent to which the workshop training provided for recipients of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation Fellowships in the summer of 1972 affected the economic understanding of their pupils.…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Economics Education, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Schneider, Virginia Lee – 1970
To find an improved method of teaching remedial English classes, a study was made to determine whether: (1) emphasis on reading skills leads to improved writing, (2) reading can be improved in an English class, (3) reading skills can be taught by teachers with little or no training. Six sections of Remedial Freshman English were used. Three…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Control Groups, Developmental Reading, English Instruction
Bies, John David – 1972
The major purpose of this study was to ascertain whether or not a relationship existed between problem-solving ability and environmental factors. A secondary and related purpose was to find and examine any differences between demographic and curriculum groups. Data were collected from students and from school records in three public high schools…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Environment
Katz, Phyllis A. – 1972
The theoretical rationale underlying the present investigations begins with the assumption that perceptual categorization of racial groups is a prerequisite for subsequent attitude development. It is predicted that if increased perceptual similarity of other groups does indeed initiate attitude acquisition, then it follows that a decrease in…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Blacks, Childhood Attitudes, Control Groups
JOHNSON, RODNEY H. – 1965
A 3-YEAR STUDY OF THE RESULTS OF BASAL AND INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAMS IN 14 FIRST-GRADE EXPERIMENTAL AND 14 CONTROL CLASSROOMS IN EIGHT SCHOOL SYSTEMS IN WISCONSIN IS PRESENTED. SUBJECTS INCLUDED 359 BOYS AND 349 GIRLS. ALL EXPERIMENTAL (INDIVIDUALIZED) CLASSES WERE PAIRED WITH CONTROL (BASAL) CLASSES EITHER IN THE SAME BUILDING OR IN THE…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
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