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Soar, Robert S. – 1966
By making detailed observations of the entire classroom process and by administering relevant tests and indices to teachers and students, this 2-year study attempted to determine what factors affect educational effectiveness. The theoretical basis was that the ways to achieve the varied goals of education (knowledge of subject matter and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Educational Objectives
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1973
Purpose, progress, and in most cases, major findings are presented for research conducted at Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J. during 1972-73. Under the rubric, Psychological Research, summaries are provided for work dealing with human development, learning and cognition, personality, and social behavior. For the category, Educational…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Computer Science, Creativity Research, Cultural Differences
Freeberg, Norman E. – 1974
A battery of tests, designed expressly for use in assessment of disadvantaged adolescents enrolled in youth-work training programs, was validated predictively against both short-term (program completion) and longer-term (post-program) behavioral outcome dimensions. Measures of the battery displayed their best validities with such longer-term…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aspiration, Attitude Measures, Disadvantaged
Adkins, Dorothy C. – 1971
Research on the differences in motivation to achieve in school among 10 groups of four-year-olds utilized a new, 75-item objective projective test called Gumpgookies. This test was individually administered to approximately 2000 children mainly from low economic backgrounds. The various ethnic and religious groups were compared with respect to…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Cross Cultural Studies
Znoj, Hans J. – 1999
This paper explores the concept that the experience of growth may be structurally similar to the emotional experience of religion and hope. It develops this view by focusing on two studies that involve a series of coping and outcome variables, together with analysis of Park, Cohen, and Murch's (1997) instrument on stress related to personal…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Counseling, Counselors
Ackerman, Philip L. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
This report reviews a theoretically inspired empirical investigation of individual differences in knowledge, abilities, and nonability traits as part of an ongoing effort to better understand adult intellectual development and to develop more accurate measures of adult intelligence. Twenty Knowledge Scales were constructed, drawing on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Adult Development, Intellectual Development, Individual Differences
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Balkam, Rochelle – Social Education, 1996
Presents a lesson plan designed to help students think about the qualities, types, and components of leadership and how these relate to the responsibilities of the US President. Includes sets of discussion questions, preceded by informational handouts, concerning, general qualities of leadership, specific leaders, and leadership in everyday life.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Decision Making, Evaluation Criteria
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Poston, Dudley L., Jr.; Falbo, Toni – American Journal of Sociology, 1990
Using data from a 1987 survey of 1,460 schoolchildren, their parents and teachers, in urban and rural areas of Changchun, China, examines academic and personality outcomes in only children. Finds results similar to Western surveys: only children are more likely to be academically talented. Reveals, however, Chinese rural only children do not score…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Birth Order, Comparative Analysis
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McGiverin, Rolland H. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1990
Discusses the growing importance of test collections in academic libraries and provides resources for test collection development. Tests in the following areas are described in detail: academic; achievement and aptitude; child development; educational development and preschool readiness; intelligence; personality; sensory motor skills; special…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Auditory Tests
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Ehrman, Madeline E.; Oxford, Rebecca L. – Modern Language Journal, 1995
Examines the relationships of individual difference variables to end-of-training proficiency ratings in speaking and reading for a large sample of adults in intensive training in a wide range of languages at the U.S. Department of State. Variables included tested cognitive aptitude, learning strategies, learning styles, personality, motivation and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style, Data Analysis
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Brutsaert, H; Bracke, P. – Educational Studies, 1994
Reports on a study of the effects of single-sex and mixed-sex schooling on personality characteristics among 2095 Belgian sixth-grade students. Finds that it is not the student gender composition but the gender composition of the teaching staff that exerts influence. (CFR)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Coeducation, Educational Environment, Educational Philosophy
Monoszon, Ele Isaevich – Soviet Education, 1989
Excerpts chapter five from Ele Monoszon's "The Establishment and Development of Soviet Pedagogy." Defines didactics from a Marxist-Leninist perspective, identifying principles and problems in content, methods, and organization of instruction. Reviews teachers' participation in research and development of Soviet pedagogy. (CH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communism, Educational History, Educational Objectives
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Blackburn, Robert T.; Bently, Richard J. – Research in Higher Education, 1993
A study with 894 college faculty investigated the effects of certain stress variables on different kinds of faculty research activity; psychological and organizational variables thought to moderate stress; and the effects of stressors and moderators for gender, institution type, and discipline (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences)…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Environmental Influences, Faculty Publishing, Higher Education
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Baker, Rachel; And Others – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1996
Describes a battery of biological and social research methods used to compare characteristics of urban schoolchildren, homeless street children, squatter children, and village children. Highlights the importance of methods that link the physical, psychological, and social aspects of children's lives. (KDFB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anthropology, Child Labor, Children
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Developmental Psychology, 1998
Used a variety of family factors to predict development of children who averaged 30 hours of nonparental care per week for each month of their lives and of those who experienced no more than 10 hours of nonparental care per week. Multivariate analyses provided no evidence that family factors predicted outcomes differently for these two groups.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Child Development, Day Care
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