ERIC Number: ED143988
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1976
Pages: 16
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Study of Changes in Parents Employed as Paraprofessionals in a Home Intervention Follow-Through Program.
Greenwood, Gordon E.; And Others
The purpose of this study was to assess self-concept, teaching behavior, and life-style changes in parents employed as paid paraprofessionals in the University of Florida Follow-Through Program during 1971-1972. Results indicate that such parents made statistically significant gains on the feelings-of-competence factor of the How I See Myself self-concept instrument. Their teaching behaviors (systematically observed from videotapes) changed toward significantly more praising and accepting and asking more open-ended questions and toward significantly less lecturing and directing. Life-style changes reported (by means of two questionnaires) were (a) increases in the amount of education completed, (b) changes in housing conditions, (c) increases in the use of "school-type" English, and (d) changes in attitude toward understanding and managing children. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Behavior Change, Education, Home Programs, Life Style, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Parent Attitudes, Parent Background, Parent Child Relationship, Self Concept, Social Science Research
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Authoring Institution: American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. Journal Supplement Abstract Service.
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