This dissertation focused on master's education cohorts at a small midwestern university. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between various demographic factors and other student characteristics as they were reported on a survey instrument. Of particular interest were those responses to attitudinal questions…

This article examines the problem of learning to learn from the perspective of research on the organization and quality of students' knowledge. This approach is based on the assumption that students' learning competencies can be studied through the analysis of the outcomes of schooling. The article synthesizes findings of a long-term research…

The present paper comments on and extends the citation analysis of verbal operant publications based on Skinner's "Verbal Behavior" (1957) by Dymond, O'Hora, Whelan, and O'Donovan (2006). Variations in population parameters were evaluated for only those studies that Dymond et al. categorized as empirical. Preliminary results indicate that the…

The social and economic transformations of Russian society in the post-Soviet period not only inflicted a "cultural trauma" (P. Sztompka) on the mass consciousness of the people of Russia, deforming it and erasing the old stereotypes, but they also had an impact on the generation of the young men and women between the ages of 17 and 20…

Background: There has been no longitudinal study in Taiwan to identify the nature and the scale of medical care utilization of people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) up to the present. The aim of this study is to describe inpatient utilization among people under ID care in institutions in order to identify the pattern of medical care needs…

This study presents an investigation of information literacy as defined by the ETS iSkills™ assessment and by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Information Literacy Scale (ILS). As two related but distinct measures, both iSkills and the ILS were used with undergraduate students at NJIT during the spring 2006 semester. Undergraduate…

This study represents a systematic replication of a previous intervention which took place in schools in Mangere from 2003 to 2005. (McNaughton, MacDonald, Maituanai-Toloa, Lai, & Farry, 2006). The contexts and theoretical rationale are the same for the present study as those for the original Mangere study. The authors have repeated that…

Used the 1980 Current Population Survey to highlight differentials in life-course events of American women born during the first half of the 20th century. Results indicated blacks have greater variation than whites around nearly all life-course events studied, but the overall level of variation among both blacks and whites has been declining…

Examined the relative change in income of older women. The income distribution of cohorts entering old age more recently is well above that of the preceding cohorts. The position of older women relative to middle-aged women, however, has not improved, and cohorts continued to experience large drops in income as they enter old age. (Author/BL)

Analysis of suicide rates of successive birth cohorts indicated that male birth cohorts were characterized by a given suicide rate (low, average, or high) throughout their life. Female birth cohorts varied during their life, with those having a higher suicide rate early in their life having a lower one 20 years later, and vice-versa. (Author)

This document updates the Athletic Tracking Study completed by the Palomar College Institutional Research and Planning department in 1999. To complete this study, the authors placed student athletes into cohorts based on the year in which they began participating in the athletic program. They then tracked the persistence and performance of each…

This paper describes the design of a study intended to examine the devolution of welfare in four cities. The study will measure the economic effects of new policies on individual and potential welfare recipients; describe the new programs and policies as they are put in place; examine the experiences of a small number of families; look at how the…

Presents an occupational competition model consisting of work qualifications, opportunities, rewards, and shelters to account for cohort representation in occupations. U.S. census data are used to follow four male and four female cohorts in 63 occupations over 20-year periods from 1920-40 and 1950-70. (Author/AM)

Delineates how changes in research methodology have impacted field of gerontology over past three decades. Illustrates impact of methodological changes on gerontology by discussing example of age-cohort-period problem as an innovation in research design. Examines case of confirmatory factor analysis as an illustration of how methodological…

Presents a mathematical model for projecting class cohort sizes for districts and schools via demographic data. The model allows entry of estimates for local preschool data to predict first-grade entrants, which are progressed through the school system. Average retention rates, school apportionments and national demographic projections can be…