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Burgess, Kim B.; Ladd, Gary W. – Child Development, 1999
Compared aggressive, withdrawn, and aggressive/withdrawn children to normative and matched control groups on teacher and peer relationship attributes, loneliness, and social satisfaction from kindergarten through grade 2. Found that withdrawn behavior was neither highly stable nor predictive of relational difficulties. Aggression was fairly stable…
Descriptors: Aggression, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior
Whitehead, Kevin A.; Kriel, Anita J.; Richter, Linda M. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2005
In the face of extreme poverty and inequality in South Africa, community mobilization interventions represent an important way in which people can be empowered to improve their life. Successfully conducting community mobilization interventions in rural South African communities requires anticipating and addressing a number of potential barriers in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Well Being, Foreign Countries, Barriers
Tzivinikou, Sotiria – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2004
Early identification of problem readers and appropriate interventions would reduce subsequent failure and would enhance reading skills. Screening instruments measure the risk/probability that reading problems will occur. In this article we discuss certain aspects with regard to the most important indices of screening measures: predictive accuracy,…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Identification, Reading Skills, Screening Tests
Fritz, Susan M.; Ward, Sarah M.; Byrne, Pat F.; Namuth, Deana M.; Egger, Valerie A. – Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2004
Consumer acceptance or rejection of biotechnology is often shaped by information prepared by communicators with varying levels of scientific knowledge, awareness, and acceptance. This study compared the prior, post-workshop, and sustained (1 year) biotechnology awareness, acceptance, and attitudes of professionals who communicate biotechnology to…
Descriptors: Scientists, Entomology, Health Personnel, Genetics
Chase, Clinton I. – 1999
This book provides basic skills and knowledge about assessment so that teachers can expand their ability to deal with appraisal problems in their own settings. The first section deals with the basic principles of assessment. The second section concerns creating and applying assessment tools. The third section reviews issues in understanding and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Fink, Arlene – 1995
The nine-volume Survey Kit is designed to help readers prepare and conduct surveys and become better users of survey results. All the books in the series contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use, illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of "dos and don'ts," and…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Educational Research, Error of Measurement
Croft, Cedric – 1993
Standards-based assessment, or at least the concept of standards-based assessment, will provide a key strategy for the implementation of the New Zealand National Qualifications Framework. This paper considers the meaning of standards-based assessment and its role in New Zealand's assessment for nationally recognized qualifications. Standards-based…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competence, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
Stanley, William B.; And Others – 1985
This study investigated a number of questions regarding the nature of social concept development in young children. Subjects were 64 kindergarten children and 65 first grade public school students from lower to upper middle class socioeconomic levels, of whom 66 were male, 63 were female, 78 were Caucasian, and 51 were black. Two assessment…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Blacks, Concept Formation, Difficulty Level
Schutz, Robert W. – 1977
The measurement of change is such a broad topic that this article must limit its focus to a few specific subtopics. These specific topics include: longitudinal research design, attrition in research studies, the statistical analysis of difference scores, and the comparison of analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multivariate analysis of variance…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Analysis of Variance, Attrition (Research Studies), Behavior Change
Classroom Observation Data: Is It Valid? Is It Generalizable? A Compendium of Methodological Papers.
Borich, Gary; And Others – 1977
The issues discussed in these four papers concern the validity and generalizability of classroom observation instruments. These issues have been studied and are reported here in an attempt to better define the limits to which classroom observation instruments can be used in researching relationships between teacher behavior and student outcome.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Elementary Education
Howerton, Mary Lou P.; And Others – 1977
The relationships of quantitative measures of writing skills to overall writing quality as measured by the E.T.S. Composition Evaluation Scale (CES) were examined. Quantitative measures included indices of language productivity, vocabulary diversity, spelling, and syntactic maturity. Power of specific indices to account for variation in overall…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Grade 12, Grade 4
Price, Gary G.; And Others – 1978
A detailed description is provided of the variable allocated learning time (ALT), which is part of the analysis in phase I of the Evaluation of Practices in Individualized Schooling. The variable is defined; the questionnaires on which the variable is based are listed, the procedures used to scale the variable are explained; the distribution of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Evaluation Methods
Costello, Francis J. – 1977
Since the administrative evaluation of faculty at the University of New Haven has been hampered by the faculty's distrust of student input, this study aimed to improve the faculty's confidence in student evaluations of instruction. A student evaluation of instructors was statistically compared to grades issued by the instructors, and to class…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Faculty, College Students, Evaluation Methods
Marsh, Herbert W.; Overall, J. U. – 1979
College instructors evaluted the quality of their own teaching and were evaluated by their students in 331 different courses. Student evaluations of teaching correlated with instructor self evaluations in courses taught by teaching assistants, in undergraduate courses taught by faculty, and in graduate level courses, demonstrating their validity…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Course Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Factor Analysis
Sweigert, Ray L., Jr. – 1975
In establishing educational goals through the Delphi technique, convergence of perception is of paramount interest. Progress toward integrated schools and changing sex roles make the perception of educational goals by groups defined by race and sex of practical significance. In three studies involving panels of community leaders, educators, and…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Convergent Thinking, Data Analysis, Educational Objectives