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Kaufman, H. G. – 1974
The book is primarily concerned with understanding the causes of and prescribing cures for the obsolescence of knowledge and skills among professionals. The focus is on the role of the organization in creating, as well as overcoming, obsolescence. Since management bears much of the onus for allowing obsolescence to occur, it is only just that it…
Descriptors: Administration, Adult Counseling, Age, Career Change
Jensen, Arthur R. – 1970
Large representative samples of Negro and Mexican-American children from Kindergarten through 8th grade in largely de facto segregated schools were compared with white children in the same California school district on tests of mental abilities and scholastic achievement, personality inventories, and indices of socioeconomic and cultural…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Black Students
Stratton, John R., Ed.; Terry, Robert M., Ed. – 1968
Thirty-one articles discuss problems and programs in the prevention of delinquency. Topics considered include prerequisites for successful prevention; problems of identifying potential delinquency, and problems of implementing prevention programs. Also treated are the role of existing community agencies and institutions, special programs and…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Agency Cooperation, Community Characteristics, Community Programs
Mancuso, James C.; And Others – 1969
This monograph contains papers presented at a symposium on the values, goals and career concepts of youth. The first article discusses cognitive personality theory which maintains that all behavior is a judgmental process carried out upon stimuli which impinge upon the organism. Major issues in general behavior theory are presented followed by a…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior, Behavior Change, Careers
Morgan, Margaret K., Ed.; And Others – 1974
Ten papers dealing with various aspects of cognitive and affective dimensions of the allied health student are presented. They are: "A Review of Research on Cognitive and Affective Dimensions of Education for the Health Related Professions" by Margaret K. Morgan, "Methodological Problems in the Study of Affective and Cognitive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Affective Behavior, Affective Measures
Nordloh, Mary J. – 1973
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the ninth and tenth grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Hiles, Dorothy; And Others – 1971
The quinmester behavioral studies course for grades seven through nine focuses on factors influencing the young teenagers' attitudes, behavior, and relationships with others. A major objective is for the teenager to examine his own values and behavior, and those of his peers, preparing him for the changes and challenges that will confront him and…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Behavioral Objectives, Behavioral Sciences, Curriculum Guides
Ellickson, Phyllis L.; McGuigan, Kimberly A. – RAND Corporation, 2005
The nation's youth are increasingly affected by violence, both as its perpetrators and as its victims. Many violence prevention programs aim to reverse this trend, but few have been rigorously evaluated, and even fewer have been shown to work. To devise better programs, researchers need more information. To that end, RAND researchers identified…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Violence, Prevention, Public Health
Garbarino, James; Kostelny, Kathleen; Dubrow, Nancy – 1991
War and violence are part of day-to-day life for many of the world's children. This book explores the lives of the children of Cambodia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and inner-city Chicago. Through research on the psychological and developmental effects of trauma in early life and interviews with children in war zones…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Behavior, Child Development, Child Health
Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Bailey, Phillip; Daley, Christine E. – 1997
This study investigated predictors of foreign language anxiety in 210 university students enrolled in French, Spanish, German, and Japanese language courses. Several instruments were used to gather information on student characteristics, study behaviors, attitudes, and language anxiety experience during the fourth week of the semester. Results…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Anxiety, College Freshmen
pierSath, Chath – 2000
This qualitative research assesses mental health resources from the perspective of providers in Cambodia and in Lowell, Massachusetts. The research documents culturally relevant coping strategies available to Cambodians for combating the effects of trauma and stress. Interviews were conducted with 11 caregivers in Cambodia and with 6 providers in…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Asian Americans, Buddhism, Cambodians
Moral Education in America: Schools and the Shaping of Character from Colonial Times to the Present.
McClellan, B. Edward – 1999
This work explores the grand themes and practices in the history of moral education from the earliest days of Colonial America. Chapter 1, "Moral Education in Early America," traces the nature and scope of moral education practiced by early European settlers. Chapter 2, "The Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Moral Education,"…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cognitive Development, Colonial History (United States), Curriculum Design
Peng, Samuel S.; Jaffe, Jay – National Center for Education Statistics, 1980
The primary purpose of this study is to develop composite variables for several sets of items included in the Second and Third Follow-Up Questionnaires of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS). The need for this study is derived from the following considerations: (1) reduction of data dimensions, and (2) provision…
Descriptors: Test Items, Questionnaires, High School Students, Student Characteristics

Hurley, John R. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1996
Examines the results of 258 undergraduates rating of each others' self-acceptance and acceptance of others. The students had previously participated in 32 small, interpersonal learning groups. They rated each other on subscale items including dominant/submissive, expressive/guarded, and active/passive. Discusses the general trends and differences…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Extraversion Introversion, Group Dynamics

Ge, Xiaojia; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined evidence for reciprocal influence between adoptive parents' behavior and heritable characteristics of adopted children. Found that psychiatric disorders of biological parents were significantly related to children's antisocial/hostile behaviors and consequently with adoptive parents' behavior. Also, the adoptee's antisocial/hostile…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Adopted Children