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Diercks, Eileen; And Others – 1987
Although limited finances and a student body of 3,200 have made it necessary to be selective in acquiring educational technology, the Plainfield (Illinois) Community Consolidated School District No. 202 has been very active in the regional partnership for excellence. Curricular programs at the Plainfield High School include use of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education, Education Service Centers
Download full textCraigie, Doug; And Others – 1993
Focusing on the area of student participation, this paper considers the findings of a research project conducted by a team at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean, and funded by the New South Wales Department of School Education. The project was broadly focused on investigating the dynamics of communication within the school communities of…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
Kemis, Mari; And Others – 1994
Financial conditions and new demands suggest that Iowa school districts will continually struggle to satisfy state and community needs. Given this situation and districts' opportunities for seeking alternative arrangements, the recent trend in school closings and district reorganization is likely to continue through the year 2000. This study…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Educational Quality, Educational Trends, Extracurricular Activities
Peltier, Gary; And Others – 1989
This study compares 1988 National Merit Scholars enrolled in rural public schools with a senior class smaller than 99 students to other merit scholars and the national sample of SAT takers. Rural scholars were more likely to be female (45.5%) and Caucasian (98%) than other scholars. Involvement in extracurricular activities was significantly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Educational Technology, Extracurricular Activities
Ehman, Lee H.; Eyler, Janet – 1982
A longitudinal study of political attitudes and behavior of high school students reveals varying results when two different methods of data analysis are applied. A sample of 293 students was questioned (during their sophomore year in 1974 and again in 1976 when they were seniors) about political orientation, number of social studies classes taken,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Data Analysis, Educational Research, Extracurricular Activities
RUSHING, DONALD – 1967
THE RIVER VIEW SCHOOL DISTRICT IN COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO, HAS EMERGED SINCE 1957 AS A RESULT OF CONSOLIDATION OF SMALL RURAL SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTY. THIS CONSOLIDATED DISTRICT NOW HAS ONE HIGH SCHOOL (GRADES 9-12) WITH AN ENROLLMENT OF 1000 STUDENTS. AS A RESULT OF CONSOLIDATION, THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE NOW PROVIDED BETTER EDUCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Bound Students, Educational Opportunities, Extracurricular Activities
Bloomfield, Byron C.; Wakefield, Howard E. – 1968
The mobilization of support data and documentation sufficient to give appropriate physical expression to the required functions of the new senior high school, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, is the objective of this report. The consultants have proceeded in two steps--(1) to identify the functions to be performed in the new high school by analyzing…
Descriptors: Architectural Programing, Curriculum, Decision Making, Design Requirements
Young, Barbara N.; Helton, Carol; Whitley, Marilyn E. – 1997
If teenagers do not find support at school, home, or in the community, then they will find it with peers, gangs, or other means. Subsequently, the importance of extra-curricular involvement for at-risk youth is reported in this paper; to what extent this involvement had potential to influence performance in academics is also examined. Involvement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Correlation, Extracurricular Activities
Peer reviewedHynes, Kevin; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1978
Thirteen predictors of self-reported high school leadership were investigated using data from the Project TALENT sample of high school seniors. The high school leader was characterized as mature, interested in business management, self-confident, socially sensitive, vigorous, and having high socioeconomic status. Cognitive variables were not…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Cognitive Ability, Extracurricular Activities, High School Students
Peer reviewedCarlisle, Robert W.; Deeter, Burton C. – Science and Children, 1989
Reports on the evaluation of a district's science fair. Describes the procedure, literature and questionnaire findings, the effects of the study, and a summary. States that as a result, changes were made in the objectives, project awards, judging criteria, and guidelines for judges. (RT)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Extracurricular Activities, High Schools, Instructional Improvement
Peer reviewedLesko, Nancy – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1988
Examines the professionalization of high school cheerleading, investigating the impact of a national association which establishes cheerleading standards and is involved in cheerleader selection. Finds that the increased status and skill associated with this national organization results in a bureaucratization of cheerleading and usurpation of…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Research, Extracurricular Activities, High School Students
Manners, Pamela A.; Smart, David J. – 1995
The research described in this paper is from the fifth year of a 6-year longitudinal study investigating psychosocial and demographic factors associated with a wide range of behaviors among adolescents. The present analyses investigate the relationship between students' participation in extracurricular activities (athletic teams, musical groups,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Athletics, Ethics, Extracurricular Activities
Zill, Nicholas; And Others – 1995
The Monitoring the Future survey of high school seniors, the Longitudinal Study of American Youth, and the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 were used to provide information about adolescents' time use, their risky behaviors, and the outcomes of time-use patterns in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Spending significant portions of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Extracurricular Activities, High Risk Students
Rathunde, Kevin – 1993
Activities that engaged the full attention of adolescents at school were explored using the Experience Sampling Method, in which subjects were interrupted by a pager to record their experience at the moment the pager signaled. Two variables indicating optimal subjective experience and undivided attention were operationalized: interest and flow…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, After School Programs
Leisey, Robin M.; And Others – 1990
The Coffee County (Georgia) Board of Education voted to consolidate Nicholls and Broxton High Schools with Coffee High School. This case study analyzes the issues of school consolidation, benefits to students and financial implications through sociological and political science perspectives. Data were collected by personal interview, document…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Curriculum Development, Educational Finance, Extracurricular Activities
