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Heafner, Tina Lane, Ed.; Hartshorne, Richard, Ed.; Thripp, Richard, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
National efforts have been made to encourage technology integration in teacher preparation with expectations for frequent and successful applications with K-12 learners. While online learning has become pervasive in many fields in education, it has been somewhat slow to catch on in K-12 settings. The "Handbook of Research on Emerging…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Teacher Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Richards, Herbert C.; Bear, George G. – 1986
Richards, Gaver, and Golicz (1984) found that, in contrast to peers whose grades were accurately predicted from performance on aptitude tests, both extremely underachieving and extremely overachieving fourth-graders had negative academic attitudes. The present study aimed to replicate and extend these findings. Subjects in the replication study…
Descriptors: Demography, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades, Negative Attitudes
Mayton, Daniel M. – 1989
Values are a central concept in understanding and predicting human behavior. Value priority differences have been shown to predict important political, social, and economic attitudes and behaviors. The purpose of this study was to identify differences and similarities among the value hierarchies of adolescents who have never tried alcohol,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Differences, Drinking
Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M. – 1983
Recent American research has explored developmental trends in gender segregation of children's peer groups. However, it is important to differentiate systematic trends in children from systematic changes in their environments. This report, based on data gathered from 1972 to 1975, presents evidence on gender segregation in Kipsigis children's peer…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries
Mattai, P. Rudy; Ohiwerei, Godwin – 1989
This document comprises a review of the factors which may account for the seeming general low interest among African Americans in migration and for the lack of interest among rural Southern blacks in study abroad. A review of the literature on migration indicates that the following factors directly influence the decision to migrate: (1) costs; (2)…
Descriptors: Blacks, College Students, Geographic Regions, Higher Education
Matthews, Doris B. – 1984
Preadolescents are faced with a variety of pressures, but usually receive little help in stress management from the school. To examine the effects of relaxation training on rural middle school students (N = 532), researchers implemented a daily 15-minute program of relaxation training exercises on aduio tapes in the regular classroom setting. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Middle Schools, Physiology
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Goetz, Judith Preissle; Breneman, E. Anne Rowley – Elementary School Journal, 1988
Uses Boocock's model of the social context of education to compare divergent climates for Black students in two rural southern elementary schools. In both schools Black and White teachers and students use an assumed color blindness and a preoccupation with subject matter to mask differential treatment of Black students. (SKC)
Descriptors: Black Youth, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Minority Group Children
Easton, Stanley E. – Small School Forum, 1985
Children and youth in rural American communities generally learn social studies/citizenship knowledge, skills, and attitudes from a variety of sources and to about the same extent as their nonrural counterparts. Although rural schools as a class are well within the educational mainstream, learning opportunities in rural schools vary widely. (BRR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Citizenship Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews
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Hilton, Laurence M.; Mumma, Karen – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1991
The study compared results of the Preschool Language Scale, administered to 214 rural and 214 suburban children in Nebraska. Both groups scored above age level, but a higher percentage of rural children failed a wide range of verbal ability and auditory comprehension items. The scale did not meet criteria for nonbiased, ecologically valid…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
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Seyfrit, Carole L. – Rural Sociology, 1986
Questions one of the assumed benefits of rapid growth in rural areas--the retention of rural youths through finding employment in their home communities. Finds no relationship between migration intentions of 970 high school seniors in rural Utah counties and rapid growth in local energy-related extractive employment. (LFL)
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Economic Development, Employment Opportunities, Energy Occupations
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Lempers, Jacques D.; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Investigates the relationship between family economic hardship and adolescent distress among 622 students in grades 9-12. Hardship effects varied according to type of distress. Hardship had direct and indirect effects on the depression-loneliness factor and an indirect effect on the delinquency-drug use factor. (RJC)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Delinquency, Depression (Psychology), Family Financial Resources
Planck, Ulrich – 1984
Conducted in 1955 and 1980, random sample interview data of 17 to 28 year-old West Germans from places of less than 5,000 inhabitants are used to support the thesis that the post-adolescent phase has been prolonged in the countryside of West Germany during these years of increasing technical and economic development. Findings indicate occupational…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Attitudes, Developing Nations
Easton, Stanley E.; Ellerbruch, Lawrence W. – 1985
Data provided by the 1981-82 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were used to study the citizenship and social studies achievement of rural 13-year-olds. The NAEP extreme rural sample included 901 13-year-olds from schools in areas with less than 10,000 people and many farmers or farm workers in residence. School size in this sample…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Adolescents, Citizenship Education, Comparative Testing
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Farris, M. Cynthia; And Others – Research in Rural Education, 1985
Examines how well structural and social psychological variables explain occupational aspirations of 447 rural, low-income southern youth during preadolescence, adolescence, and young adulthood (contacts were made in 1969, 1975, and 1979). Finds results vary from Ginsburg's theory of three stages with occupational expectations declining rapidly…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Career Choice, Economically Disadvantaged
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Freeman, Norman H.; Sanger, Daniella – Visual Arts Research, 1995
Summarizes interviews with British West Indies children concerning the production of art and the role of the artist. Demonstrates that children's perceptions undergo a shift from naive realism (pretty things make pretty pictures) to a more interpretive stance (the artist's efforts define the final product). (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art Products
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