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Fuller, Carol; Powell, Daisy; Fox, Simon – Educational Review, 2017
In this paper we explore the role of outdoor residential experiences on the sense of efficacy and examination attainment of a group of under achieving students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds. The article reports on a three year project which focuses on two groups of Year 9 (age 14) to Year 11 (age 16) students. The results reported here…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 9, Grade 10
Vickers, Nolan Lamar – 1972
This study investigated the effects of three different methods of teaching English on English achievement and attitude toward school of tenth-grade, educationally deprived students. Three groups of twenty students were matched according to English achievement scores, chronological ages, and attitude scores. Pretests and posttests of attitude and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attitudes
GOLDEN, RUTH I. – 1962
AN AUDIOLINGUAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUE FOR IMPROVING RURAL SPEECH PATTERNS OF DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS WAS EVALUATED. THE SAMPLES CONSISTED OF 72 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO WERE DIVIDED EQUALLY AMONG EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUPS. A SERIES OF LESSONS ON ENGLISH USAGE FOR LISTENING AND REPETITION WERE ADMINISTERED TO THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP. THESE…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 10, High School Students
Thompson, Joseph Edward – 1973
The objectives of this investigation were to study the effects of instruction in the development of qualitative vocabulary on overt, latent, and written qualitative vocabulary performance of urban students of lower socioeconomic background, and to study the effects of such instruction on pupil performance in reading comprehension. Data used to…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Doctoral Dissertations, Grade 10, Grade 8