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Noeth, Richard J. – 1979
Career experiences, plans, and academic characteristics of 30,000 college-bound seniors in the state of Washington in 1979 are detailed. Among findings were that a large number of college-bound seniors have been active in extracurricular activities, ranging from athletics to community service to special interest groups; that 67 percent held a…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Cohort Analysis, College Bound Students
Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Meghir, Costas – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2007
The impact of date of birth on cognitive test scores is well documented across many countries, with the youngest children in each academic year performing more poorly, on average, than the older members of their cohort (see, for example, Bedard and Dhuey (2006) or Puhani and Weber (2005)1). However, relatively little is known about the driving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Age Differences, Age Grade Placement