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Taylor, Elizabeth; And Others – 1981
Students' understandings of the concept of social class before and after taking the Social Science Foundation course (D101) at Great Britain's Open University were investigated in 1980. Among the students' conceptions before the course was that people are middle class or working class according to their job. Other conceptions were that social…
Descriptors: College Students, Course Objectives, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries
Madhere, Serge; Walker, Elaine – 1985
This study delineates the relationships between social background, classroom experience, and academic abilities. Classroom experience is mainly judged in terms of students' affective dispositions. The objective is to clarify how these dispositions are shaped by the personal and situational factors in a child's social background, and then how they,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Basic Skills
Budoff, Milton; And Others – 1977
In two different studies the relationships between study time patterns, retrieval time patterns, and clustering were examined. In the first study middle Socioeconomic Status white students in grades 2 through 5 increased their use of the clustering strategy as a function of the organizational nature of the list. List composition facilitated…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Background, Black Students, Cluster Grouping
Cookson, Peter W., Jr. – 1980
Values about education held by private school educators tend to be those best suited to preparing their mostly middle- and upper-middle-class students for managerial and professional careers. Social scientists have hypothesized that schools readying students for social leadership will stress internalized student behavior norms instead of obedience…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education
Dahlstrom, Edmund – 1979
The larger study of which this research is a part examines the relationship between social scientists and practitioners in the development and dissemination of knowledge through higher education. In this publication the term "cognitive development" is used to refer to the creation and dissemination of knowledge in a field. The concept of the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Democracy, Higher Education, Information Dissemination
Senate Committee of Canada (Ontario). Standing Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Science.
Experiences in prenatal life and early childhood that may cause personality disorders or criminal behavior in later life are examined in these proceedings of the Subcommittee on Childhood Experiences as Causes of Criminal Behavior of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Science, Senate of Canada. This issue, the fourth in a series of 19…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Child Abuse
Radin, Norma; Epstein, Ann – 1975
This study demonstrated the effectiveness of a reliable, inexpensive method for observing fathers interacting with their preschool children in the home. Fathers in 180 white families were interviewed about their child rearing attitudes and practices, and observed while playing games with their four-year old children. When a factor analysis of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Evaluation Methods, Factor Structure, Fathers
SARRI, ROSEMARY C.; VINTER, ROBERT D. – 1967
IN A 3-YEAR STUDY OF PUPIL MALPERFORMANCE IN FIVE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MICHIGAN, THE FOLLOWING FACTORS WERE EXAMINED--(1) STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS AND BEHAVIORS, (SOCIAL CLASS, MOTIVATIONS, ETC.) AND (2) SCHOOL CONDITIONS AND PRACTICES. PERFORMANCE AND MALPERFORMANCE PATTERNS WERE FELT TO BE A RESULT OF THE INTERACTION OF BOTH…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Educational Research, High School Students
Johnson, Ronald L.; Johnson, Kent J. – 1968
A study compared social and social-psychological characteristics of 112 male respondents who moved to 4 other states from North Dakota (the most rural state in the nation) between the years 1961 and 1965 with similar characteristics of 513 North Dakota male residents who remained in their respective communities throughout the five-year period.…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Males
BARRITT, LOREN S. – 1968
THIS SPEECH PRESENTS THE FINDINGS OF A STUDY OF THE VERBAL RECALL ABILITY OF 102 HIGH AND LOW SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (SES) CHILDREN IN THE PRIMARY GRADES. THE HIGH SES SUBJECTS ATTENDED A UNIVERSITY SCHOOL IN AN UPPER-MIDDLE-CLASS SUBURB, AND AT LEAST ONE OF THEIR PARENTS HAD ATTENDED COLLEGE. THE LOW SES SUBJECTS WERE IN A COMPLETELY NEGRO SUBURBAN…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Data Analysis, Experiments
COHEN, S. ALAN
THIS PAPER DOCUMENTS THE GENERAL CONDITIONS OF DISADVANTAGED AMERICANS AND EXAMINES THE PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS WHICH GROW OUT OF THEM. SPECIFIC STATISTICS ARE REPORTED WHICH DESCRIBE INADEQUATE MEDICAL SERVICES FOR NEGROES, POOR HEALTH, POVERTY LEVEL INCOMES, AND EDUCATIONAL RETARDATION. THE PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL FACTORS DISCUSSED INCLUDE VISUAL…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attitudes, Educational Retardation
Farran, Dale C.; And Others – 1977
This study attempted to identify maternal variables within social class which were predictive of child status over time. Data on patterns of mother/child interactions were collected for the experimental and control groups of poverty mother/child dyads at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center and a group of general population high…
Descriptors: Child Development, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Infants
Perkin, Harold – 1977
The professionalism of society, the higher education of British elites, and the control of British higher education are addressed in the three papers comprising this report. The rise of a professional society, defined as a society increasingly based on technical or bureaucratic knowledge, and on trained expertise and certification by paper…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Role, Educational Administration, Educational Philosophy
Mills, Gladys H. – 1975
The stated purpose of this bibliography is to assist school administrators, legislators, governors, and others in identifying documents already in their libraries which might assist in decision making at their respective levels, encourage effective action, and enhance the sense of urgency which the great American dream of equal educational…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bias, Bibliographies, Educational Finance
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1973
These papers were presented at a series of conferences on language and cultural differences organized by the Texas Education Agency to help school administrators deal with bilingual education, racial integration, and implementation of court orders. The papers address five areas of concern: the concept and definition of culture, culture and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness
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