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Eagle, Eva – 1989
A study using the 1980 High School and Beyond senior cohort was undertaken to assess the relative impact of socioeconomic status (SES), parental attention, mother's working patterns, and family structure on student achievement. More specifically, this report describes the relationship between educational attainment and the components of the SES…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affluent Youth, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
This guide is intended for use in teaching a graphic communications systems. The course has been designed to provide students with an opportunity to assess audiences; design, produce, and deliver printed and photographic messages; and analyze the impacts of these messages. The first two sections discuss the guide's development within the framework…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audiovisual Communications, Behavioral Objectives, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Mohapatra, Manindra Kumar – 1981
Data from a self-administered questionnaire survey of all 188 high school juniors and seniors who attended the only high school in a rural county in Kentucky were utilized to explore various dimensions of youth political culture in that county. The study was part of a continuing effort to understand and analyze the political culture and…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Federal Programs, Foreign Policy, Government Role
Kuvlesky, William P. – 1981
A 1973 study of 341 Mexican American nonmetropolitan high school sophomores in South Texas and 300 Mexican American sophomores and seniors in El Paso high schools and a 1978-79 replication study of 89 metropolitan and 65 nonmetropolitan Mexican American youth explored the difference in their Spanish-English language usage patterns. Both studies…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Grade 10, Grade 12
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. for Management and Planning Services. – 1980
Results of the fifth year of testing by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction are presented. In 1980, objective-referenced tests in mathematics and reading were given to a sample of Wisconsin's public school students in grades 4, 8, and 12. Students were also given the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) in mathematics, reading,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1980
Results from the third national writing assessment of 17-year-old students conducted in 1979 by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are presented in this volume. Chapter one provides highlights of the results of the test assessment which indicate neither a major decline nor improvement in writing performance of 17-year-old…
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Gains, Black Students, Cohesion (Written Composition)
McCormick, Robert W. – 1978
The success or lack of success of the students who participated in the experimental pre-postsecondary programs conducted in four Ohio areas in 1974-75 was assessed. The program rationale was the need to offer students in grades 11 and 12 a diversity of pre-postsecondary programs to prepare them for postsecondary occupational or baccalaureate…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Admission Criteria, Career Choice, Career Education
Ryan, Susan C. – 1978
Results of New Hampshire's first biennial Educational Assessment Program involving 7,500 public school students in grades 5, 9, and 12 are reported. Multiple choice and essay tests were administered in reading, writing, mathematics, state and national history, and government. Instructional assistance--including workshops, suggested classroom…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Sizemore, Robert W. – 1979
Teachers may fail with junior high school age and black students because these groups differ from their senior high school age and white counterparts in their perceptions of which teacher behaviors are important. To test this hypothesis, black and white ninth and twelfth graders were asked to select their three best and three worst teachers and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Students, Grade 12, Grade 9
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1979
The 168 items selected for administration to 7,905 17-year olds in 1976-77, were developed from existing National Assessment items and from existing sets of life/coping skills. Skills designated as basic included: career development; citizenship; community resource utilization; consumer protection; family management; health maintenance; and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Daily Living Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Harmatuck, L. – 1977
Nearly 15,000 Wisconsin public school students in grades 4, 8, and 12 were tested in Spring, 1977, as part of the Wisconsin Pupil Assessment Program. Objectives were: (1) to measure student progress in attaining specific mathematics objectives; (2) to determine how students compared nationally in reading, language, and mathematics; and (3) to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Trends
YOUNG, RAYMOND – 1966
THE NEEDS FOR VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN THE SHIAWASSEE-CLINTON AREA OF MICHIGAN WERE DETERMINED FROM QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM 1,146 SENIORS OF 1965, 416 GRADUATES OF 1960 AND 1962, 1,034 PARENTS OF FIFTH GRADERS, AND 250 BUSINESS FIRMS. EXISTING COURSE OFFERINGS WERE DETERMINED FROM COURSE TITLES IN AREA HIGH SCHOOLS. ANALYSIS OF DATA…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Curriculum, Educational Needs, Employer Attitudes
Fountain Valley School District, CA. – 1976
Designed as a resource for high school teachers (9-12), this curriculum activities guide is fourth in a set of four based on an articulated (K-12) career education competency curriculum model designed to infuse career education into the curriculum on a districtwide basis. Materials for each of the four program components are arranged under the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Planning, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
Gillespie, Judith A.; Patrick, John J. – 1975
This teacher's guide to unit three of the first-semester "Comparing Political Experiences" course provides teaching instructions to meet the unit objectives. The guide outlines instructional objectives and procedures for each of the 16 activities described in the 12th-grade student materials. Each instructional procedure is designed to…
Descriptors: Civics, Class Activities, Course Content, Decision Making
Gillespie, Judith A.; Lazarus, Stuart – 1975
Unit two to the second-semester "Comparing Political Experiences" course focuses on a specific controversial political issue: court-ordered busing in Boston. A documentary approach represents the core of instruction in this 12th-grade unit. This approach avoids lengthy narratives of a theoretical approach and yet is more in-depth than…
Descriptors: Busing, Case Studies, Class Activities, Concept Teaching
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