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Cruickshank, Donald; Leonard, James – 1967
In order to collect data supportive of the development of new curriculum and curriculum materials for use in the preparation of teachers to work with disadvantaged children, a study was conducted to determine the type and extent of problems perceived by teachers as they teach in inner-city or "ghetto" schools. Each of 12 school district…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disadvantaged Youth, Discipline Problems, Educational Problems
Fox, Wayne L.; And Others – 1969
A study was designed to examine relationships of aptitude level to training performance on tasks of varying complexity and to determine if differential job training might be required. A complexity rated training battery with eight tasks (simple/choice monitoring, rifle assembly/disassembly, equipment preparation, map symbols, phonetic alphabet,…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement Rating, Adult Vocational Education, Aptitude
Skeen, Elois M. – 1975
The document reports an outside evaluation of a Niagara Falls Adult Basic Education Program special project entitled "Identification of Preferred Cognitive Styles and Matching Adult Reading Program Alternatives for the 0-4 Grade Levels." It was concerned with (1) research, training in cognitive style mapping, and development of a survey…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
Hickey, Albert E., Ed. – 1968
References to literature published before July 1968 on computer-assisted instruction (CAI) are presented in this survey. Nine subject area chapters, providing the framework for the references, deal with general statements on CAI (including benefits, state of the art, problems, roles in society, financial support, and trends); applications of CAI…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Edwards, Daniel W. – 1970
The development of one instrument from a multi-method battery to assess exploration preferences, a questionnaire of individual preferences, is described. The objectives of the study in which it was employed and the concept of exploration are briefly outlined. Over 1000 questionnaire items relevant to high school students' social desirability were…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Grade 11, Grade 8, Grade 9
Horowitz, Frances D. – 1973
This monograph is a collection of papers describing a series of loosely related studies of visual attention, auditory stimulation, and language discrimination in young infants. Titles include: (1) Infant Attention and Discrimination: Methodological and Substantive Issues; (2) The Addition of Auditory Stimulation (Music) and an Interspersed…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli
McDonald, Geraldine – 1976
Differing attitudes of researchers and preschool teachers towards research in early childhood are discussed in this paper. These differences are seen as arising from causes such as the special training of each group and the nature of the work they do, the distribution of the sexes in each group and the social institutions which back them. The…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Attitudes, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices

Janicki, Terence C.; Peterson, Penelope L. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Aptitude-treatment interactions in large- and small-group learning situations were investigated. Students who initially preferred small groups did worse in that approach than in the large-group approach. High- and low-ability students did better and had more positive attitudes in the small- and large-group approaches, respectively. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction

Elder, Glen H., Jr.; And Others – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1996
Studied families in the Iowa Youth and Family Project for the social and developmental pathways by which adolescents approach decisions to relocate. Found that lack of socioeconomic opportunity, relatively weak and declining ties to family and religious community, and strong educational prospects were potent factors. Also found that plans to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Career Choice, Economic Opportunities

Alva, Sylvia Alatorre – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1993
Using grades and standardized test scores as criteria variables, a survey determined relative effects of sociocultural variables, personality factors, and student perceptions of school and social events in explaining differential patterns of academic achievement for 89 Asian-American tenth graders. Findings are discussed in connection with the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Asian American Students, Asian Americans

Donaldson, Gordon A., Jr. – NASSP Bulletin, 2000
Maine's gubernatorially appointed Commission on Secondary Education produced eight overarching observations and six core principles governing learning climate, teacher expectations, differentiated instruction, assessment, democratic engagement, and program coherency. This new vision challenges schools and communities to rethink how they assess,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adolescents, Coherence, Core Curriculum

Storch, Stacey A.; Whitehurst, Grover J. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2001
Tested a model of individual differences in the development of emergent literacy. Focused on home environment contributions to children's emerging literacy skills and on processes relating family environment and two domains of emergent literacy (outside-in and inside-out). Found that early connections between home, language, and emergent literacy…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Emergent Literacy, Family Environment
Rosenblatt, Zehava; Shirom, Arie – Journal of Educational Administration, 2005
Purpose: To examine the effects of specific personal and job characteristics on year-to-year (2000-2001) changes in teachers' frequency of absences. Design/methodology/approach: With few exceptions, the population of elementary- and middle-school teachers in the Israeli public education system (N=51,916) was studied. Hierarchical regression…
Descriptors: Teacher Attendance, Public Education, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Background
Noble, Kimberly G.; Norman, M. Frank; Farah, Martha J. – Developmental Science, 2005
Socioeconomic status (SES) is strongly associated with cognitive ability and achievement during childhood and beyond. Little is known about the developmental relationships between SES and specific brain systems or their associated cognitive functions. In this study we assessed neurocognitive functioning of kindergarteners from different…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Young Children, Kindergarten, Cognitive Processes
Beach, Richard W.; Appleman, Deborah; Hynds, Susan; Wilhelm, Jeffrey – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
This text for pre-service and in-service English education courses presents current methods of teaching literature to middle and high school students. The methods are based on social constructivist/socio-cultural theories of literacy learning, and incorporate research on literary response conducted by the authors. "Teaching Literature to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literature, Reading Difficulties, Adolescent Literature