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Rottmann, Larry – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 1992
Describes student demonstrations on the night that U.S. planes bombed Iraq in the Persian Gulf War. Compares attitudes and feelings to the Vietnam War era. Concludes that the students incorrectly supported the Gulf War action. (CFR)
Descriptors: Group Behavior, Higher Education, Nationalism, Political Attitudes
Steineger, Melissa – Northwest Education, 1999
Schools in the Eugene, Oregon, area are participating in the Peaceable Educational Practices (PEP) project, which identifies research-based best practices for reducing school violence. Three general strategies include school data collection, schoolwide policies and programs, and tailoring strategies to the school. PEP schools have seen a dramatic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Data Collection

Dubois, Nicole; Beauvois, Jean-Leon – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1996
Explores the extent that intergroup attributions may be affected by the mobilization of an academic status that explicitly positions students within a school hierarchy. Calculates internality scores for students categorized as good versus bad based on a questionnaire of attributions. Explains the results within the frame of two theoretical fields.…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Educational Psychology, Group Behavior, Higher Education

Robinson, Peter B. – Simulation & Gaming, 1996
The MINEFIELD exercise is an experiential learning activity in entrepreneurship education which simulates a group escape from a prisoner of war camp. This article describes the scenario, probable outcomes, and game variations. Debriefing questions highlight concepts like vision and mission, strategies versus tactics, management versus leadership,…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Education, Concept Teaching, Entrepreneurship

Smith, Eliot; Henry, Susan – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1996
Social identity theory holds that social group memberships become part of the psychological self, affecting thoughts, feelings, and behavior. However, tests of this hypothesis have mainly involved judgmental dependent measures. A method is suggested that can provide more direct evidence. Discusses use of that method. (KW)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics, Group Membership

Zhao, Dingxin – American Journal of Sociology, 1998
Interviews students who were involved with the 1989 Beijing student movement. Finds that the spatial concentration of students on Beijing university campuses nurtured many close-knit social networks and exposed students to environmental influences promoting social action; these conditions helped sustain the student movement and guided its choice…
Descriptors: College Students, Dissent, Foreign Countries, Group Behavior
Hall, Budd L. – Convergence, 2005
Participatory research (PR) is a term that was first articulated in Tanzania in the early 1970s to describe a variety of community-based approaches to the creation of knowledge. Taken together these approaches combine social investigation, education and action in an interrelated process. The International Council for Adult Education provided a…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Participatory Research, Action Research

Somers, Cheryl L.; Tynan, Joshua J. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2006
The purposes of this study were to examine group differences in sexual media consumption and to explore how well adolescents' sexual attitudes and behavior can be explained by viewing of sexually suggestive dialogue (SD) and explicit sexual content (SC) in television media. Participants were 473 male and female high school adolescents who were…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Sexuality, Adolescents, Literature Reviews
Topor, Robert S. – 1992
This guide discusses the use of focus groups in marketing research for higher education. It describes the differences between qualitative and quantitative research, and examines when it is appropriate to use focus group research, when it is not, and why. The guide describes a step-by-step approach in how to plan, formulate, moderate, and report…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Facilities, Group Behavior, Group Discussion
Cherbo, Joni Maya; Peters, Monnie – 1995
Data gleaned from the 1982, 1985, and 1992 Surveys of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPAs) were used in this analysis of participation in opera and musical theater/operetta. Findings indicate that opera is the least popular of the fine arts, being the least frequented and the least selected as an activity respondents would like to attend more…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audience Participation, Audience Response, Audiences
Murk, Peter J. – 1994
Using a brief experiential group activity called "Choosing a Color Exercise" as an introductory measure, this paper explains the basics of group dynamics and reviews the major theoretical relationships between the group's structure, the dynamics of maintenance and task behaviors, and effective individual performances. The types of functional and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Group Behavior, Group Discussion, Group Dynamics

Bailey, Leona G. – Foreign Language Annals, 1975
This paper analyzes both Flanders' and the Foreign Language Interaction (FLint) methods of classroom observation and concludes that both systems are deficient in accuracy, reliability and practicality. Observing, recording and decision-making difficulties are inherent, and system complexities and teacher biases add to the problems. (CHK)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Group Behavior, Interaction, Interaction Process Analysis
Taylor, Dalmas A.; Moriarty, Beatrice – 1985
The present experiment investigated factors which enhance the salience of group membership and consequent ingroup bias. Subject dyads, who were always white, interacted either competitively or interdependently with either white or black confederate dyads. Ingroup bias was assessed as a function of attraction toward the outgroup (experimental…
Descriptors: Competition, Group Activities, Group Behavior, Group Membership
Gouran, Dennis S. – 1982
To provide a theoretical base for investigating the influence of inferential error on group decision making, current literature on both inferential error and decision making is reviewed and applied to the Watergate incident. Although groups tend to make fewer inferential errors because members' inferences are generally not biased in the same…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Research, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making
Rasheed, Mohammed A. – 1979
An Arabic translation of the "Work Environment Scale" was administered to the employees of Riyadh University's College of Education in Saudi Arabia for the purpose of gathering data useful in administrative decision-making. The survey investigated the work environment of the college as it is perceived by three distinct groups: the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Decision Making, Employer Employee Relationship, Group Behavior