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Download full textEdwards, Ruth W. – 1997
This paper compares data on the prevalence of alcohol and other drug use by students in grades 8 and 12 across four sizes of communities. Data from the American Drug and Alcohol Survey (ADAS), administered in approximately 250 communities during the 1992-93 and 1993-94 school years, were analyzed for four community sizes: very small (population…
Descriptors: Community Size, Drinking, Females, Grade 12
Reck, Una Mae Lange – 1983
The primary objective of a pilot study was to investigate the educational motivation of rural native Appalachian eighth grade females in terms of educational attitudes, educational decisions, and educational self-concept. Results from the study (sample size: 27) indicate strongly that female Appalachian adolescents, about to enter womanhood, do…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Prevention, Educational Attitudes
