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Gartstein, Maria A.; Bateman, Alison E. – Infant and Child Development, 2008
In this longitudinal study, 83 parents of infants between 3 and 12 months completed questionnaires assessing demographic information, infant temperament, and maternal depression. When these children were at least 18 months of age, parents completed follow-up questionnaires assessing toddler temperament and depression-like symptoms. We were…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Personality Traits, Parents
Huidor, Ofelia; Cooper, Robert – Education and Urban Society, 2010
This article examines the experiences of 20 students of color who voluntarily attend a racially integrated school. The study draws from the Socio-Cultural dimension of schooling as a framework to understand how the students of color fared on a social, cultural, and environmental level within a predominantly White school. Through a questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Campuses, Voluntary Desegregation, School Desegregation, Educational Opportunities
Fleming, Jacqueline – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2012
In this important resource, Dr. Fleming (a noted expert in the field of minority retention) draws on educational evaluations she has developed in the course of her distinguished career. This book analyzes the common factors and the role institutional characteristics play in minority student retention to show what really works in increasing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Minority Group Students, School Holding Power
Laanan, Frankie Santos – Community College Journal of Research & Practice, 2007
The movement of students from community colleges to 4-year colleges or universities has been an area of inquiry that has received attention from researchers and policy makers. A plethora of research has focused on the academic outcomes of transfer students at senior institutions. Specifically, the concept of "transfer shock" has been…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Culture Conflict, Community Colleges, Questionnaires
Jeffers, Adam R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This project examines the early educational experiences of 6 young African American males (ages 18-25) who attended urban schools in San Diego, California. All 6 men were incarcerated for at least 1-year before participating in a pre-release program. The participants were part of a pre-release program in San Diego, California, which was selected…
Descriptors: African Americans, Urban Schools, Institutionalized Persons, Criminals
Sarama, Julie; Clements, Douglas H.; Starkey, Prentice; Klein, Alice; Wakeley, Ann – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2008
This study used a randomized field trial design to evaluate the efficacy of a research-based model for scaling up an intervention focused on preschool mathematics. Although the successes of research-based educational practices have been documented, equally well known is the paucity of successful efforts to bring these practices to scale. The same…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Intervention, Mathematics Achievement
Kano, Megumi; Franke, Todd; Afifi, Abdelmonem A.; Bourque, Linda B. – Educational Researcher, 2008
To ensure accurate interpretation of research findings, researchers should report details about their research design, data collection method, and response rates when presenting findings from survey research. A review of 100 peer-reviewed articles reporting the results of survey research on K-12 schools with principals as the designated…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, School Surveys, Mail Surveys, Case Studies
Orange Coast Junior Coll. District, Costa Mesa, CA. – 1969
A 9-item questionnaire was given to registering students for fall and spring 1969. For easier handling, its form was changed for the next semester. By accident, the two versions were handed out and 687 students answered both in quick succession. The staff decided to compare the two forms to see if the answers differed. Two questions were…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Reliability, Two Year Colleges
McConnell, Arleigh W. – Journal of Secondary Education, 1971
Descriptors: Administrators, Labor Turnover, Principals, Questionnaires
Somerville, Jerry – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2008
The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify critically important factors that affect the meaningful assessment of student learning outcomes and study why these factors were critically important. A three-round Delphi process was used to solicit the opinions of individuals who were actively involved in student learning outcomes assessment…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Communication Strategies, Student Evaluation, Community Colleges
Tozcu, Anjel – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
This study explores the use of the interactive whiteboards in teaching the non-Latin based orthographies of Hindi, Pashto, Dari, Persian (Farsi), and Hebrew. All these languages use non-roman scripts, and except for Hindi, they are cursive. Thus, letters within words are connected and for beginners the script may look quite complicated,…
Descriptors: Internet, Indo European Languages, Alphabets, Second Language Instruction
Thompson, Gail; Madhuri, Marga; Taylor, Deborah – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
Two pressing education reforms entail improving students' reading skills and improving high schools in the United States. In this article, the authors focus on both of these issues by adding the voices of students in an underperforming high school to the discussion about reading reform. We present the results of a larger study pertaining…
Descriptors: High Schools, Focus Groups, Educational Change, Reading Skills
Aberson, Christopher L.; Porter, Michael K.; Gaffney, Amber M. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2008
This study examined the role of Hispanic students' friendships with White non-Hispanics (n-Hs) and African Americans (AAs) in predicting implicit and explicit prejudices toward these groups. Participants (N = 73) completed implicit and explicit attitude measures and a friendship questionnaire. Friendships were associated with implicit attitudes…
Descriptors: Friendship, Attitude Measures, Student Attitudes, Peer Relationship
Luman, Kyle; Zweifler, John; Grumbach, Kevin – Journal of Rural Health, 2007
Context: Few studies have systematically examined the experience of rural practice from the physician's perspective or included physicians from an array of specialties, particularly non-primary care. Purpose: To better understand differences between rural and urban physicians in perceptions of their practice environment. Methods: In 2001-2002,…
Descriptors: Specialists, Questionnaires, Patients, Rural Areas
Sabharwal, Seema – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of the study was to examine if there was a significant difference between first-grade English Learners (EL) who constitute a majority (greater than 50%) of the English language mainstream classroom (homogeneous grouping) and first-grade EL who constitute a minority (less than 50%) of the English language mainstream classrooms…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Homogeneous Grouping, Heterogeneous Grouping, Grade 1