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Walker, Wendy D. – 1991
The concept of adolescence as a period during which certain kinds of behavior are to be expected has become institionalized in the American education system; acceptance of this "rite of passage" creates barriers for adolescent female refugees from the Hmong and Mien hilltribes of Laos, whose cultures do not include the concept of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Asian Americans, Case Studies, Cross Cultural Studies
Download full textWilkinson, L. David; Galindo, Letticia – 1989
The knowledge that 17-year-old students in a local city school district had of literature and history was assessed using the same test items administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). A review of national results of the NAEP examination in 1986 has highlighted the gaps in knowledge of this age group. The Austin (Texas)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Comparative Testing
Fox, G. Thomas, Jr. – 1974
Syntactical rule differences in black dialect that can be more helpful to young adolescents' perceptions than the corresponding rules in standard English were studied. The syntactical rule in black dialect that was identified as being more explicit than the corresponding rule in standard English was the invariant "be" verb form (as in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Dialects, Black Students, Junior High School Students
Israeli-American Comparison in Videotaped Interaction between Fathers and Adolescent Boys and Girls.
Woidislawsky, Rita; And Others – 1983
As part of a program in which father-adolescent interactions are videotaped in a search for the determinants of achieving behavior, a sample of 37 father-adolescent pairs were studied as the two worked together while the blindfolded adolescent built a tower of irregularly shaped blocks. Discriminant function treatment of coded analysis of verbal…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Kovach, Bernadette S.; Hillman, Stephen B. – 2002
The association between ethnic group identification, attributional style, and the use of self-protective attributions with respect to self-esteem, academic achievement and motivation among ethnically diverse adolescents was examined. Participants in the study included 422 African American, 90 Arab American, and 194 European American high school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Adolescents, Arabs
Buchen, Irving H. – 1980
This paper summarizes various theories of youth activism and makes a projection of what adolescence may be like by the year 2000. The major objective is to aid social scientists and futurists as they attempt to interpret the role of youth in social and cultural change. The hypothesis is that observation and analysis of recent and contemporary…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cohort Analysis, Cultural Context, Cultural Traits
