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Download full textAsher, Steven R. – 1983
Grounding their efforts on results of previous research, investigators have sought to improve peer relationships of unpopular children through direct instruction in social skills. Generally, such interventions have been effective in promoting specific outcomes. For example, skill-training programs improve children's ability to form colleague…
Descriptors: Children, Friendship, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Acceptance
Lau, Sing; Li, Wing-Ling – Creativity Research Journal, 1996
A study involving 633 Grade five Chinese students in Hong Kong found significant sex and popularity group differences in peer-nominated creativity and popularity group differences in teacher-rated creativity. Overall, peer status and perceived creativity were highly related. Students perceived boys as more creative than girls. (DB)
Descriptors: Creativity, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Musun-Baskett, Linda – 1986
This study compared different strategies for computing sociometric status to determine the extent to which they agree. It is argued that, if the different strategies lead to significant differences in whether a child is classified as popular or unpopular, then the technique for computing social acceptance would be an important issue in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Peer Acceptance, Peer Evaluation
Peer reviewedHymel, Shelley – Child Development, 1986
Examines the hypothesis that biases in peer interpretations of social behavior may contribute to the stability of social acceptance and rejection in children. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children
Moely, Barbara E.; Johnson, Terry D. – 1985
A study was conducted to investigate the peer concepts held by 16 second-grade, 17 fourth-grade, and 17 sixth-grade students. A paired comparisons sociometric procedure was used to obtain children's descriptions of their classmates in the areas of reading, mathematics, drawing, and an athletic skill (running). In addition, the procedure measured…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Ravaud, Jean-Francois; And Others – Exceptional Child, 1987
Nondisabled students (n=65) and disabled students (n=120) from mainstreamed grades 6 through 12 were surveyed and compared to non-mainstreamed controls. Responses were analyzed in the categories of stereotypes, peer-ratings, and self-ratings. Nondisabled students favorably described the disabled in general, but descriptions of actual disabled…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities, Intergroup Relations, Mainstreaming
McIntosh, Ruth; Vaughn, Sharon – 1993
This study examined the aggressive behaviors of children through peer ratings to teacher ratings of problem behaviors and social skills and peer ratings of friendship. Peer data are valid measures and may be more accurate than teacher or self measures because peers are more likely to be present when aggression occurs. This study examines a peer…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavioral Science Research, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
