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Henderson, William E. – 1971
This Quinmester course on money and banking, part of the political and economic studies cluster for grades 10, 11, and 12, aims at examining the nature, role and scope of money in a capitalistic economy. Emphasis is placed upon understanding the operation of government policies affecting banking, with its subsequent influences on our national…
Descriptors: Banking, Course Objectives, Curriculum Guides, Economics
Wolk, Donald J., Ed. – 1971
This pamphlet was written for social studies teachers to inform and stimulate the creative programing of drug education. Chapters written by the editor were: 1) Why drugs?; 2) The Drugs of Concern; 3) Excessive Drug Use: Signs, Symptoms, and Family-Related Factors; and, 4) Four Rules for Teaching about Drugs. Other authors and chapter titles are:…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Drug Education, Drug Legislation
Oberle, Wayne H.; Kuvlesky, William P. – 1971
The purpose of this study was to examine metropolitan-nonmetropolitan and sex differences in the role models selected by Negro high school sophomores. A questionnaire was grouped-administered to 111 metropolitan males, 170 metropolitan females, 98 nonmetropolitan males, and 99 nonmetropolitan females. The results of the study indicated that sex…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Cross Cultural Studies, Family Influence, Grade 10
Palmer, William S. – California English Journal, 1971
A study in which the patterns and possibilities of free modifiers in the writing habits of three students, who were rated low in language ability, is described. The primary purpose of the study was to determine if complicated syntactic elements used as free modifiers could be lifted from the complex subject of grammar and be presented as…
Descriptors: Context Free Grammar, English Instruction, Grade 10, Grammar
Jackson, Gregg; Cosca, Cecilia – 1973
Teacher-pupil interactions among students of different ethnic groups, with particular focus on possible disparities between Mexican Americans and Anglos, were compared. Data were also collected on Blacks and other ethnic group students, but the number of these students proved inadequate for statistical analysis. Classroom observations in rural,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, Classroom Desegregation, Educational Opportunities
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Hater, Mary A.; And Others – 1972
The purpose of this study was to verify that mean cloze scores predict the reading difficulty of passages written in mathematical English. Twenty-two mathematical passages exemplifying different writing styles and content were selected from instructional materials written for upper elementary school and junior and senior high school. Using a fifth…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Grade 10, Grade 7
Cincinnati Univ., OH. – 1971
To develop an information system and model sampling for administrators of developmental career exploration programs in Grades 9 and 10, a series of summer workshops directed teachers, coordinators, and administrators to develop this curriculum guide for a student centered career education curriculum providing "hands-on" experiences. This…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education
Curry, Charles; Crosen, Roger – 1976
This teaching guide provides vocational teachers with a method for implementing work ethics instruction. Twenty-three lesson plans are included, which are organized into eight instructional units: Learning about Work; Developing Personally; Conducting Yourself Ethically; Developing Human Relations Skills; Getting a Job; Performing on the Job;…
Descriptors: Career Education, Employment, Ethical Instruction, Ethics
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Williams, Ray – Art Education, 1988
Presents a lesson plan which uses Marilyn Levine's "Brown Boots, Leather Laces" to introduce students in grades 10-12 to naturalistic representation and the "trompe l'oeil" artistic tradition. Discusses Levine's background. Includes instructional strategies and student objectives, as well as a photograph of the artwork. (GEA)
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression
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Rowe, Deborah Wells; Rayford, Lawrence – Reading Research Quarterly, 1987
Indicates that a broad age range of students can use some purpose questions as cues to activate background knowledge. Suggest topic familiarity, amount of information presented, and the presence of genre clues as text features affecting schema activation. (NKA)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 1
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Hoffmann, Lore; Lehrke, Manfred – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1986
Reports the results of a broad-based study of 11- to 16-year-old students' interests in physics and technology. Results indicate that the subjects students find most interesting are under-represented in the physics curriculum, while those they find the least interesting are over-represented. Draws conclusions regarding instruction which arouses…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
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Zimmerman, Barry J.; Pons, Manuel Martinez – American Educational Research Journal, 1986
Forty tenth graders from a high achievement track and forty from lower achievement tracks of a suburban high school were interviewed concerning their use of self-regulated learning strategies during class, homework, and study. Fourteen categories of self-regulation strategies were identified from student answers that dealt with six learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 10, High Achievement, High Schools
Randhawa, Bikkar S.; And Others – Journal of Visual/Verbal Languaging, 1982
Replications of two basic experiments in support of the dual-coding processing model with grade 10 and college subjects used pictures, concrete words, and abstract words as stimuli presented at fast and slow rates for immediate and sequential recall. Results seem to be consistent with predictions of simultaneous-successive cognitive theory. (MBR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, Grade 10, Higher Education
Stoneberg, Bert D., Jr. – Online Submission, 2004
The purpose of this study was to screen for gender-based (female-male) and ethnic-based (Hispanic-White) differential item functioning (DIF) in the 2003 Idaho Standards Achievement Tests of reading, language arts and mathematics at grades 4, 8 and 10. The vendor, the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA), assembled the computer-administered…
Descriptors: State Standards, Grade 8, Grade 10, Grade 4
Hauser, Carl; Kingsbury, Gage – Northwest Evaluation Association, 2004
This study was designed to answer two key questions about the fixed portions of the fourth, eighth, and tenth grade spring 2003 Idaho Standards Achievement Tests (ISAT) in Reading, Language Usage and Mathematics: (1) To what extent do test items exhibit substantive differences in functioning across student groups formed based on ethnicity and…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 8, Grade 10, Test Items
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