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Keeves, John P.; Larkin, Anthony I. – International Journal of Educational Research, 1986
Regression analyses examined the relationships among: time spent (periods and hours per week) studying science; time allocated for science homework; time used by teacher; and time not spent in learning. The performance cycle model of achievement, aspiration, and attitude was supported at the between classrooms level. (GDC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention, Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ellison, Patricia; Foster, Mark – ACTA Paediatrica, 1992
Examined over 200 perinatal variables relating to mothers and to children's neurological, cognitive, and motor functions at 15 months and 4 and 7 years. Factor analysis identified latent variables that characterized covariations among perinatal variables. There were many correlations to children's outcomes, particularly for variables relating to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Followup Studies, Longitudinal Studies
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Wong, Kooi Sim – Comparative Education, 1990
Reports survey findings from 930 Singapore secondary teachers on job satisfaction and work centrality and their relationships to work environment, teacher role, classroom practices, and teacher background. Compares results to those from four other countries, and presents path models for Singapore and U.S. data. (SV)
Descriptors: Causal Models, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies
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Brody, Gene H.; Flor, Douglas L.; Gibson, Nicole Morgan – Child Development, 1999
Traced links among family financial resource adequacy, maternal beliefs and behavior, developmental goals, and child outcomes in rural, single-parent African American families of 6- to 9-year-olds. Found that financial adequacy was linked with childrearing efficacy. Efficacy beliefs were linked with parenting practices indirectly through…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beliefs, Black Family, Black Mothers
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Walpole, Sharon; Chow, Sy-Miin; Justice, Laura M. – Early Education and Development, 2004
This study investigated the contributions of initial literacy, oral language, and social adjustment to literacy achievement at the end of the kindergarten year. Data were collected across the kindergarten year from 48 children attending a school serving primarily children from low-income households with research-based curriculum and intervention…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Intervention, Social Adjustment, Spelling
Murray-Harvey, Rosalind; Keeves, John P. – 1994
A study was designed to investigate the complex interrelationship of factors that affect university students' academic achievement. The study used a sample population of 72 students who were enrolled in first year Nursing and Teacher Education courses in 1991 at the Flinders University of South Australia. From data gathered over 2 years, a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
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Sapp, Marty; And Others – 1994
This study found a statistically significant relationship between cognitive-behavioral therapy and improvements in African American middle school students' grade point averages, number of days absent, and number of days tardy. Subjects were 60 junior high school students. The results of a path analysis provided the rationale for conducting this…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Behavioral Objectives, Black Students
Burke, Julie A.; And Others – 1989
This study examined a smoking intervention program, which employed group competitions with rewards, to determine its effects on adolescents' smoking-relevant beliefs, their subjective norms, and peer influence. Initially, 1,187 seventh graders in Burlington, Clinton, and Muscatine, Iowa were surveyed in 1984. Data were gathered from a re-survey…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Analysis of Variance, Communication Research, Grade 7
Stage, Frances K. – 1987
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine associations among background characteristics, commitment levels, institutional involvements, and persistence for male and female university students. Data were collected from college records and surveys completed by 316 university freshmen at the beginning of and 10 weeks into the 1984 fall…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Family Characteristics, Higher Education
Marsh, Herbert W. – 1986
Newman (1984) examined the causal relations between math self-concept and math achievement in an 8-year longitudinal study using Linear Structural Relations (LISREL) analyses. He concluded that math self-concept did not influence subsequent math achievement. However, the study suffered in that math self-concept was inferred from a single-item…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Correlation, Effect Size, Elementary Secondary Education
Chacon-Duque, Fabio J. – 1985
The factors that determine course completion and achievement in college distance education were investigated using a sample of 25 courses offered through the Independent Learning Program at the Pennsylvania State University. The main objective was to develop a multivariate model to explain and predict outcomes of distance education. Additional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Programs, Distance Education
Rutkowski, Edward, Ed. – Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society, 1982
Divided into four parts, this document presents papers covering: quantitative analysis and educational history, ethnicity and education, educational paradigms, and schooling in the urban heartland. The first paper in part 1, "The Social and Economic Correlates of School Attendance among the Children of Textile Workers, 1890" (D. L. Angus, B. A.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Children, Educational History, Educational Policy
Guyton, Edith M. – 1984
A conceptual model was developed and assessed to examine the relationship between critical thinking and political participation. Although the empirical and theoretical bases for the model are not fully discussed, findings based on path analysis are presented. Based on data from 118 graduate and undergraduate students, the model affirms the…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Education, Critical Thinking, Democratic Values
Nolen, Susan Bobbitt; Haladyna, Thomas M. – 1989
This paper describes a model of the influence of personal and environmental factors on students' valuing of two deep-processing strategies for studying expository texts. In the model, task orientation (a form of intrinsic motivation in which learning and understanding are the major goals) interacts with perceptions of the teacher's goals to…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Educational Objectives, High Schools, Learning Motivation
Mumford, Michael D.; And Others – 1987
A multivariate modeling approach was developed to assess the impact of changes in aptitude requirement minimums on U.S. Air Force technical training outcomes. Initially, interviews were conducted with technical training personnel to identify significant student inputs, course content, and training outcome variables. Measures of these variables…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Course Content, Labor Force Development
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