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McDonald, Thomas P.; And Others – 1993
A survey of 258 North Carolina families with children (ages 3 to 12) having emotional disturbances focused on: (1) the wide range of characteristics of the child, family, and community; (2) characteristics that families bring to their situation as well as characteristics that can be changed by experience and the use of resources and services; and…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Coping, Demography
Gendreau, Joan C.; And Others – 1980
One of a series of materials developed by Project APT (Administrators, Parents, and Teachers/Assessment, Programing, and Training), a program designed to foster home/school coordination in educational planning and program implementation for severely mentally retarded and/or multiply handicapped students; the booklet provides five screening tools…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Behavior Rating Scales, Check Lists, Cognitive Tests
Child Welfare League of America, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1997
The primary challenge of delivering and evaluating family-based services lies in successfully assessing changes in families. This guide provides instruction for use of the Family Assessment Form (FAF), an instrument to help practitioners assess families at the beginning of service, develop individualized family service plans, monitor family…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caseworker Approach, Check Lists, Evaluation
Carlson, Dawn; Ehrlich, Nat – US Department of Education, 2005
The 2001 Survey of Assistive Technology and Information Technology Use and Need by Persons With Disabilities in the United States (AT Survey), was conducted over a nine-month period from March through December 2001. Each respondent was screened in as a person with a disability based on a screening instrument developed by the National Institute on…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Assistive Technology, Information Technology, Family Environment
Kinzig, Karen; Nakai, Janet – 1995
Kindergarten and third-grade students in two suburban communities located in northern Illinois participated in the implementation of a program for improving student's engagement in social interactions and academic activities. The problem documentation indicated a need for teacher's intervention in order to improve student's social academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Classroom Environment
Gandara, Patricia – 1995
This study examined the factors influencing the academic success of 50 Mexican-Americans from low-income families who received Ph.D., J.D., or M.D. degrees from prestigious universities. All of the subjects received their college and graduate education during the 1960s and 1970s, and were interviewed using a 141-question interview protocol. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, College Faculty, Cultural Influences
Stricker, Lawrence J.; Rock, Donald A.; Pollack, Judith M.; Wenglinsky, Harold H. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2002
This study explored individual differences in educational disadvantage-- deficits in formal and informal education in the school, home, and elsewhere--in the SAT test-taking population. Factor analysis identified six educational disadvantage factors--four concerning the students' schools and two the students' nativity and parenting--and one family…
Descriptors: Research Reports, College Entrance Examinations, Individual Differences, Disadvantaged
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