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Peer reviewedMackenzie, Brian – American Psychologist, 1984
The choice between genetic and environmental explanations is most properly based on "jointly genetic/environmental designs," which control for both genetic and environmental differences in a behavior genetic framework. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Environmental Influences, Genetics, Intelligence Quotient
Direct linkSpencer, Margaret Beale – American Psychologist, 2005
Decades following Brown v. Board of Education (1954), issues regarding the effects of skin color, poverty, and racial differences in the availability of protective factors persist. For a multiethnic sample of mainly African American (56%), female (69%), and high-achieving (65%) youths, a dual-axis model of vulnerability is used to compare four…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Poverty, Youth, Racial Identification
Peer reviewedJones, Lyle V. – American Psychologist, 1984
Discusses societal changes that may have contributed to increasing average achievement levels (especially in mathematics) for Black students. Considers the long-term beneficial effects of school desegregation. (GC)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Black Achievement, Black Students
Peer reviewedGerard, Harold B. – American Psychologist, 1983
Social scientists' assertions in 1954, that desegregation would improve minority student performance by freeing minority children from "pariah" status, and the hypothesis that interracial classroom contact would result in improved minority student achievement, are both unsupported by research. Effective school desegregation programs must…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Desegregation Effects, Elementary Secondary Education, Minority Groups
Peer reviewedBrooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Furstenberg, Frank F., Jr. – American Psychologist, 1989
Reviews the state of knowledge on adolescent sexual behavior in the following areas: (1) onset of sexual behavior as a function of cohort, gender, and ethnic differences; (2) biological, social, and cognitive processes underlying such behavior; (3) demographic trends in the use of contraceptives; (4) research problems; and (5) successful programs.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Child Development
