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Download full textAlameda County School Dept., Hayward, CA. – 1972
The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effects of a comprehensive career development program operating during the 1971-72 school year on selected behaviors of students, parents, school staffs, and community participants. Through career development experiences within the normal curriculum in certain experimental schools the project had as…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement
Ilg, Frances L.; Ames, Louise Bates – 1964
This combined text and manual presents the basic educational viewpoint of the Gesell Institute, that children should be entered in school (and consequently grouped and promoted) on the basis of their developmental or behavioral age, not on the basis of their chronological age or IQ. The introduction describes the research in which the Institute…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Development, Behavior Rating Scales, Cognitive Development
Swassing, R.H. – 1969
To compile a list of evaluation instruments, the fiscal 1968 end-of-year reports of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VI-A activities from 50 states and six territories and a random selection of end-of-year reports of Public Law (PL) 89-313 activities were analyzed and compared for the instruments which had been used. Title VI-A…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Attitude Measures, Auditory Tests, Behavior Rating Scales
Haipt, Mildred – 1990
Little empirical research has documented the impressionistic reports that mature-age students bring a unique and highly desirable set of personal qualities to the teaching profession. To help fill the gap, this study gathered empirical data from both mature-age and college-age students (N=74) on the following: (1) personality characteristics; (2)…
Descriptors: Adults (30 to 45), Beginning Teachers, Career Change, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedReynolds, Arthur J. – American Educational Research Journal, 1991
A longitudinal early schooling process model was developed for first-year and second-year reading achievement, mathematics achievement, and socioemotional maturity with 1,539 low-income minority children. Data were collected from children and teachers over four time periods. Results indicate that family- and school-related cognitive readiness had…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Carroll, James A. – 1977
The Defining Issues Test (DIT) has been subjected to construct validation in a number of studies relating it to the development of moral judgment and to measures of cognitive development and political attitudes. The DIT has been found to have significant positive correlations with the Comprehension of Social-Moral Concepts Test for a variety of…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Cognitive Development, Comparative Testing, Comprehension
Donoghue, Mildred R. – 1969
Research studies from different areas of the country are cited to support a favorable view of the effects of FLES instruction and to identify the most effective FLES instructional arrangements. Effects of FLES instruction on language achievement in elementary and high school and on general achievement in elementary school are noted. A study on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary School Students, FLES
Nunnelley, Jeanette – 1996
This pilot study compared developmental outcomes, academic achievement, and parent involvement for children attending a Title I full-day kindergarten with those of children attending a Title I half-day program in New Albany, Indiana. The subjects were nine children from the full-day program and ten children from the half-day program. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developmental Programs, Full Day Half Day Schedules, Individual Development
Boyd, Lenore A.; Chissom, Brad – 1977
This normative study of the American Association on Mental Deficiency (AAMD) Adaptive Behavior Scale--Public School Version was based on 291 Texas public school children divided into 12 categories. The categories were: age, ethnic, or racial group (white or non-white), and assignment to regular classes or special education classes for the educable…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Education, Handicapped Children
Lambert, Nadine M. – 1977
Adaptive behavior is defined as the degree to which individuals are able to function and maintain themselves independently, and meet the culturally imposed demands of personal an social responsibility. In 1969, the American Association on Mental Deficiency sponsored the development of the Adaptive Behavior Scale to provide a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Rating Scales, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Planning
Peters, Richard Oakes; Fisher, L. Timothy – 1976
Career education is an ongoing process which begins at an early age in the life of the child with the development of an awareness of careers and occupations, and proceeds systematically through the stages of exploration, counseling and guidance, training, and job placement. The New Hampshire Supervisory School Union 58 Experimental Schools (ES)…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Education
CUMMINS, EMERY J.; PALOMARES, UVALDO H. – 1968
MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS FROM 13 GRADE LEVELS WITHIN THE WASCO, CALIFORNIA, PUBLIC SCHOOLS WERE TESTED IN MARCH, 1967, AS PART OF AN EVALUATION OF STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF RURAL MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS IN CALIFORNIA. ANALYSIS OF TEST RESULTS REVEALED THAT MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS FELL PROGRESSIVELY BEHIND IN PERCEPTUAL MOTOR DEVELOPMENT--A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Methods
New York Univ., NY. Inst. for Developmental Studies. – 1965
The tests described in this index are used by the Institute for Developmental Studies in its principal areas of research and do not include recently developed tests. The research at the Institute is concerned with (1) the relationship of differing environments to language development, (2) classroom communication between teachers and children of…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Tests, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Development
Ellison, Robert L.; And Others – 1978
As part of Utah's 1978 statewide assessment, a number of tests were administered to over 4,000 fifth grade students from 64 elementary schools and over 2,000 eleventh graders from thirty high schools. This report presents the results in each of the areas tested: (1) intellectual maturity--measured by reading and mathematics achievement on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aesthetic Education, Affective Objectives, Classroom Environment
CUMMINS, EMERY J.; PALOMARES, UVALDO H. – 1968
MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS FROM 8 GRADE LEVELS WITHIN THE SAN YSIDRO, CALIFORNIA, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT WERE TESTED IN JUNE, 1967, AS PART OF AN EVALUATION OF THE RURAL MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENT POPULATION IN CALIFORNIA. ANALYSIS OF TEST RESULTS REVEALED THAT MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS FELL PROGRESSIVELY BEHIND IN PERCEPTUAL MOTOR DEVELOPMENT--A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Methods
