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Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1980
This report describes the background, development, validation, and major components of the Standardized Assessment System (SAS). (The SAS is a multi-component system designed for use in evaluating a wide variety of experimental and demonstration youth programs initiated the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act--YEDPA--of 1977.)…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Awareness, Decision Making Skills, Demonstration Programs
Wong, Eleanor; Smisko, Barbara – 1978
This handbook contains a synopsis of the technical data on a variety of tests and inventories used in career assessment. The test abstracts provided include a description of the components of the tests, norms used, coefficients of reliability and validity, and the advantages of uses of the tests. The tests are grouped in three categories: (1)…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning
Jacobsen, Linda S.; Borchardt, Gordon C. – 1980
In order to identify a battery of aptitude tests which could adequately predict the success of applicants to its court-reporting program, MacCormac Junior College contracted with Science Research Associates in Fall 1976 to conduct a longitudinal validation study of court-reporting aptitude measures. Eight tests were administered to each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admissions Counseling, Aptitude Tests, Clerical Occupations
National Library for Psychology and Education, Stockholm (Sweden). – 1977
The compilation offers abstracts and source information about 328 behavioral science research projects in Sweden during 1976 and the first four months of 1977. The entries, grouped alphabetically by author, include 24 subject categories such as adult education, applied psychology, communication systems, developmental psychology, experimental…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Behavioral Science Research
Reardon, Robert C.; Vernick, Stacie H.; Reed, Corey A. – 2001
Civilian employment data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1960-1990 were analyzed with respect to the following factors: (1) the six kinds of work considered in the Holland occupational classification system (realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional); (2) occupation; (3) employment; (4) gender; (5)…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Comparative Analysis
Callahan, Carolyn M.; Sowa, Claudia J.; May, Kathleen M.; Tomchin, Ellen Menaker; Plucker, Jonathan A.; Cunningham, Caroline M.; Taylor, Wesley – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2004
This research monograph on the social and emotional development of gifted students' is divided into four parts. Part 1 of the report focuses on analysis of the literature. Parts 2-4 present results of seven qualitative and quantitative studies of adolescent development. In Part 2, Studies 1 and 2 expand Lazarus and Folkman's cognitive appraisal…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Academically Gifted, Females, Construct Validity
Mednick, Fred – 1996
Arguing that adolescence is a syndrome to be managed rather than a stage to be outgrown, this book offers suggestions from a high school principal as an insider's guide to today's teenage world. The book contends that the major task of adolescence is to gain mastery over emotion, and that a partnership between parents and educators is imperative…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Rearing
Flanagan, John C.; And Others – 1977
Project TALENT is a longitudinal survey designed to investigate the personal, educational, and experiential factors that promote or inhibit the development of human talents. Extensive data were obtained in 1960 from a sample of over 400,000 students in grades 9-12 in the United States. These data included cognitive skills of the individuals, their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Planning, Cognitive Ability, Educational Experience
Arkansas Univ., Fayetteville. Dept. of Vocational Education. – 1978
This curriculum guide is designed for Arkansas ninth-grade students to explore business careers through the use of competency-based instructional materials. Exploratory business teachers are asked to incorporate the twenty-three units of study into a sequence best suited to their teaching style. Units include such topics as "Social Security,""What…
Descriptors: Accounting, Banking, Business Communication, Business Correspondence
McDaniel, Ernest D.; And Others – 1973
Patterns of cognitive, affective, and social growth of elementary school children are described and the school and home variables which influence such growth are identified in this longitudinal study. This final report presents the final instruments and the interpretive data associated with them. The study permits the tracing of developmental…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Development, Educational Environment
Sanders, Mavis G., Ed. – 2000
This collection of papers examines historical approaches and current research and practice related to the education of adolescents placed at risk of school failure as a result of social and economic conditions. After "Preface: Research, Policy and Practice in the Education of Poor and Minority Adolescents" (Mavis G. Sanders), there are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Accountability, Adolescents
Porter, Louise – 1999
Noting that adults caring for young children often find themselves responding to children's misbehavior in ways contradictory to their overall goals of children's autonomy and self-management, this book provides practical child-centered suggestions for responding to young children's disruptive behavior and suggests behavior management techniques…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Abuse, Child Behavior
Lamb-Parker, Faith, Ed.; Hagen, John, Ed.; Robinson, Ruth, Ed.; Clark, Cheryl, Ed. – 1998
This report summarizes the conference proceedings of the fourth Head Start National Research Conference. The focus of the conference was on creating a shared agenda for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers related to serving children and families in an era of rapid change. Keynote topics and speakers are: "Countering the Health…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Child Development, Child Health, Classroom Environment
Huhta, Ari, Ed.; And Others – 1993
A collection of articles on second-language testing includes: "The State of Language Testing in the 1990s" (J. Charles Alderson); "The Exercise of Power and Control in the Rhetorics of Testing" (Elana Shohamy); "Institutional and Political Aspects of Language Testing" (Bernard Spolsky); "Language Planning Policy…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Criterion Referenced Tests, Difficulty Level, Educational Trends
Day, Nancy; And Others – 1983
This package of seven modules that introduce health occupations II is one of six such packages containing a total of 46 modules that comprise Health Occupations Education II, the second course of a two-year course of study. Each module may contain some or all of the following components: introduction, directions, objectives, a list of learning…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Behavior Standards, Behavioral Objectives
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