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Direct linkSibiya, Solomon; Van Rooyen, Linda – International Review of Education, 2005
This study seeks to identify the key factors influencing the participation of adult learners in literacy campaigns in South Africa. Preliminary research has indicated that adult educators often do not know and understand what inspires adult learners to participate in literacy education. The present study underscores that illiterates tend to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Functional Literacy, Adult Students
Liu, Hsien-Yung; Silverman, Stephen – Sport, Education and Society, 2006
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the educational value orientations of physical education teachers in Taiwan, and the relationships of gender, teaching experience, grade level, and the locations in which they work. Value orientations were measured with the Value Orientation Inventory-2, which was translated into complicated Chinese for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods
Download full textPrediger, Dale J.; Swaney, Kyle B. – 1985
This study determined the validity of vocational interest scores for persons with high, medium, and low levels of experience appropriate to their predominant interests. The experiences and interests of a national sample of 1,380 young adults were assessed concurrently with scales paralleling Holland's types. The degree of congruence between…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role
Alexander, Karl L.; Cook, Martha A. – 1979
Using two complimentary data sets, the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 and the Study of Academic Prediction and Growth, the conventional interpretation of educational plans as motives and thus determinants of educational attainment is questioned. It was found that when questioned about their educational loans: (1) as…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Aspiration, Career Planning, College Attendance
Ladd, Everett Carll, Jr. – 1979
Survey data on professional activities, concerns, and commitments of the professoriat show that as a group faculty spend only a modest amount of time on scholarship and much more on teaching, by preference. This is especially true of older faculty and those in two-year colleges. In general this appears to fit with faculty responsibilities. Their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Higher Education, Interest Research
Newman, Isadore; And Others – 1974
Vocational interests among eighth and ninth grade students were examined and factor structures by grade, sex, and race were compared. The Ohio Vocational Interest Survey (OVIS) was the only inventory given. Results indicate that: (1) eighth and ninth grade students have similar interest patterns, (2) black and white eighth and ninth grade students…
Descriptors: Blacks, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Females
Harmon, Lenore W. – 1974
The paper considers how the technical aspects of interest measurement can contribute to sex bias and suggests guidelines for evaluating interest inventories for sex bias and for developing interest inventories which minimize sex bias. An overview is given of interest measurement techniques: in selecting a pool of items, developing scales, and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Interest Inventories, Interest Research
Peer reviewedHoffmann, Lore; Lehrke, Manfred – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1986
Reports the results of a broad-based study of 11- to 16-year-old students' interests in physics and technology. Results indicate that the subjects students find most interesting are under-represented in the physics curriculum, while those they find the least interesting are over-represented. Draws conclusions regarding instruction which arouses…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
Athanasou, James A. – 1998
The topic of repeated judgments of interest in vocational education was examined in a study in which 10 female full-time technical and further education (TAFE) students (aged 15-60 years) were handed 120 randomly selected real profiles of TAFE students who had completed subject interest surveys in a previous study. The 10 TAFE students judged how…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Case Studies, Decision Making, Educational Attitudes
Peer reviewedLunneborg, Clifford E.; Lunneborg, Patricia W. – Teaching of Psychology, 1991
Presents study results comparing psychology graduates with graduates in other areas. Includes comparisons of high school interests, grades, and achievement measures. Concludes that psychology graduates exhibited vocational interests in artistic, general cultural, scientific, and service areas. Reports that psychology majors had similar interests…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, College Graduates, Comparative Analysis
Lytle, R. R.; Johnson, K. E.; Hui, Y. J. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2005
An overview is provided of (a) deaf education in China, (b) views of deaf Chinese, and (c) recent empowering international collaborations. China's national policy focuses on oral/aural education and hearing rehabilitation. However, everyday practice in schools for deaf children includes various forms of Chinese Sign Language. Early childhood…
Descriptors: Deafness, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Hearing Therapy
Judge, Sharon – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2006
Assistive technology is guaranteed by law to be included when appropriate on individualized education plans (IEP) for young children with disabilities. Yet, the full potential of technology remains unfulfilled due to insufficient knowledge of options available, limited professional development, and a dearth of evidence on its effectiveness for…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Assistive Technology, Young Children, Individualized Instruction
Leathem, Paul J. – 1985
Data from two national surveys originally designed to measure public attitudes toward science and technology were examined to determine the relationships among several variable characteristics of the survey population and their attentiveness to local school politics. Survey respondents were divided into two groups: those who indicated they were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education, Interest Research
KRIPPNER, STANLEY – 1961
THE FREQUENCY AND INFLUENCES OF VOCATIONAL TYPE PREFERENCES AMONG APPROXIMATELY 350 SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADERS WERE DETERMINED DURING THIS STUDY. PROJECT ACTIVITIES WERE CONDUCTED AS SUPPLEMENTARY TO COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT NO. 367, "A STUDY OF INTERESTS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH," AND WERE REPORTED IN A DOCTORAL DISSERTATION. DATA WERE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Planning, Grade 7, Grade 8
Peer reviewedMartinez, Michael E.; Haertel, Edward – Science Education, 1991
Examines features of science experiments that make them interesting to middle school students (n=59 seventh graders). Compared a model of interest in learning with the reasons students gave for liking experiments. Latent partition analysis was used to derive an empirical model from characteristics of interesting science experiments. (PR)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Research, Grade 7, Interest Research
