Analyzed trends of drug use as reported by four cohorts of 11th graders at three-year intervals between 1977 and 1986. Most salient trend was progressively higher percentages in perceived harmfulness of drugs. Higher percentages of health risk factors connected with various categories of drug use were not associated with significant trend of…

In the four-school stratified sample of eleventh graders, the females scored significantly higher in vocational attitude. For both sexes, the relationship between overall self-esteem level and vocational attitude maturity was significant. The self-concept variables contributing to vocational attitude maturity in each sex were identified.…

A Modified form of Sigel's Styles of Categorization Tests discriminated group and individual categorization preferences in 5th, 8th, and 11th graders consistent with the expectations of developmental theory and research for these age groups. (Author/DEP)

Presents high school students' responses to a yearly writing assessment which asked them to explain why there are discrepancies in the performances of males and females in reading and math. Finds that the largest category of responses was "the way things are," followed by the equally broad categories of work, society, school, and logic. (SR)

Two perspectives provide the theoretical framework for this study. The first provides confirmatory maximum likelihood estimates of factor loadings and factor intercorrelations; the second, and more important, provides statistical tests of hypotheses that factor structures and patterns of values are invariant for female and male adolescents. The…

Evaluation to determine if identical illustrations used in learning and testing situations are equally effective for boys and girls of the same grade level. Subjects were members of grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. (AJ)

Discusses the performance of 11th-grade students from Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Trinidad (n=1216) on an Errors in Biological Labeling Test (EBLT). Concludes that performance was low in six categories of errors, and that girls performed significantly better on each category of error than did boys. Contains 15…

Reports research on the influences of sex, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity on the reasons high school students gave for their career choices. (Author/EF)

Surveyed 189 eleventh graders to assess attitudes toward war in general and attitudes toward Persian Gulf War. Reactions to war were associated with gender, race, and school setting. Students in study were slightly less supportive of war, in general, but more supportive of Gulf War than were past subjects on conflicts of their day (Vietnam and…

In this study of incidental learning effects upon listening ability, 135 eleventh grade students participated in a program of testing and training in note-taking skills. (Authors)

Male and female eleventh grade students from 14 schools in Tel Aviv were tested to determine the effect of gender and other factors on values and value judgments. No predominating factor was found, although gender effect could be quantified. (DM)

This study sought to discover whether high school juniors might have a relatively consistent preferred way of responding to short stories, even when the stories are dissimilar. "Way of responding" included engagement (the reader's report of his involvement with the text), interpretation (the reader's report of the relation of the text to the world…

The purpose of this 1967 study was to compare rural-urban differences in the academic aspirations held by some 6000 Minnesota high school juniors. Criteria for determining the college plans of adolescents were taken from responses to the question "What further schooling do you plan after high school?" Those selecting the alternative…

Focus of this investigation was to suggest that dissonance between an individual's needs and his perceptions of the environment is related to anxiety, alienation and discrepant GPA (grade point average). (Authors/MB)