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Spence, John C.; Gauvin, Lise – Journal of Drug Education, 1996
Using a stratified random sampling procedure, 754 student athletes were surveyed regarding drug and alcohol use in eight different sports from eight universities across Canada. Provides statistics of substances athletes reported using, including pain medications, weight loss products, anabolic steroids, smokeless tobacco products, alcohol,…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Athletes, Behavior Standards, Cocaine
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Merrett, Frank; Jones, Linda – Educational Studies, 1994
Reports on a study about the general rule structures in 24 British primary schools and the systems of sanctions and rewards used to maintain them. Finds that all primary school teachers were considered responsible for rules being kept and that primary schools use fewer sanctions when rules are broken. (CFR)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Standards, Classroom Techniques, Discipline Policy
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Congress, Elaine – Journal of Multicultural Social Work, 1992
Reexamines traditional social work values related to client autonomy, confidentiality, paternalism, and antidiscrimination considering the current cultural diversity of social work students. Discusses the social work educator's role in modeling professional values and the impact of culturally different beliefs about family and interpersonal…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Confidentiality, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
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Lo, Jane-Jane; Wheatley, Grayson H. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1994
Describes the relationship between learning opportunities and the negotiation of social norms in mathematics class discussions based on data from interviews and observation of a third-grade classroom. Includes several transcripts of observations. (31 references) (MKR)
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Constructivism (Learning), Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education
Hannafin, Robert D.; Savenye, Wilhelmina C. – Educational Technology, 1993
Examines reasons why some elementary and secondary school teachers resist computers and discusses the changing role of teachers who do use computers. Topics addressed include a historical perspective on educational technology focusing on microcomputers; social norms and education; societal resistance to new instructional methods; educational…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Change, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware
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Johns, Beverley Holden – Preventing School Failure, 1998
Outlines new provisions in the reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that benefit children with behavior or emotional disorders. Provisions that focus on keeping students in school, accurate assessment of student behavior, positive behavioral interventions, and children who bring weapons or drugs to school are discussed. (CR)
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Standards, Discipline Policy, Discipline Problems
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Sawhill, Isabel V. – Public Interest, 2000
Most adolescent mothers are unmarried and on welfare. Congress enacted new welfare legislation that emphasizes reducing teen pregnancy and requiring work, but states are reluctant to meet this challenge. Discusses child poverty's new face, public policy and culture wars, welfare reform, and social norms. Concludes that reducing unwed parenthood…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Standards, Births to Single Women, Children
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Lintonen, T. P.; Konu, A. I. – Health Education Research, 2004
Adolescents tend to overestimate peer drinking; the resulting misperception of the social norm predicts the child's own future drinking. This study examined the misperception's relatedness to a person's drinking pattern in order to facilitate the segmentation of the audience for health education interventions. Adolescent Health and Lifestyle…
Descriptors: Health Education, Audiences, Drinking, Questionnaires
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Persson, Andreas; Kerr, Margaret; Stattin, Hakan – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
In a study of adolescents in the 1970s, girls were high in normbreaking if they attended youth recreation centers "and" were heavily involved with peers or boys (Stattin et al., 2003). The present study investigated whether these results could be replicated on a modern sample, and then examined parent-child relationships and personality…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Recreation, Behavior Standards, Social Behavior
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2006
Financial incentives for teen parents are components of state welfare programs intended to encourage enrollment, attendance, and completion of high school as a means of increasing employment and earnings and reducing welfare dependence. The incentives take the form of bonuses and sanctions to the welfare grant related to school enrollment,…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Child Rearing, Sanctions, Welfare Recipients
Schiffman, Carole B. – 1995
Growing populations of older adults, ethnic minorities, and the low-literate create unique concerns for the design of visual information. Those for whom text presents a barrier will respond most to legibility, use of familiar formats and symbols, and simplification. Guidelines for those processes are needed, and this paper, in particular,…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Cultural Differences
Quinn, Jennifer Woods – 1994
This study sought to identify a norm for teaching development at five different higher education institutions. Identifying institutional norms is important because much of individual behavior in an institution is governed by such norms. Faculty (N=145) at five institutions (a community college district, two liberal arts colleges, a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, College Faculty, College Instruction, Community Colleges
Gallimore, Ronald; And Others – 1992
This paper presents a series of propositions concerning processes that are at work in mentoring relationships, with each proposition accompanied by a brief discussion of the theory and research on which it is based. Examples are provided of the role of mentoring in the development of creative individuals. The propositions cover the following…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Apprenticeships, Behavior Standards
Here's How, 1983
One of a series of practitioner-oriented newsletters, the document provides elementary school principals with information about school discipline and Public Law 94-142 (The Education for All Handicapped Children Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973). Focusing on the impact of this law on general education classroom teachers and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Problems, Behavior Standards, Classroom Environment
Butler, Fonda P. – 1989
In March 1989, the Kentucky Department of Education assembled a task force to make recommendations regarding the issue of teaching values and character in public schools in Kentucky. The 23-member task force represented educators, parents, the legislature, state and local school boards, law enforcement agencies, higher education, Catholic…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Behavior Standards, Cluster Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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