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Bryant, Ellen S. – 1974
Trends and changes in Mississippi farms, farmers, and farm populations were investigated for the period between 1950 and 1970 and comparisons were made between the farm population and that of the urban and rural nonfarm segments in terms of growth trends and 1970 characteristics. Data were drawn from both the Censuses of Agriculture (taken at five…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Birth Rate, Blacks, Census Figures
Kaskowitz, David H.; Norwood, Charles R. – 1977
Project Information Packages (PIPs) are informative kits that describe remedial educational programs and contain instructions for installing the projects in a new site. Six such PIPs were evaluated using a norm-referenced procedure applied to standardized test scores. Pretest scores were compared to posttest scores which were calculated according…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Black Students, Demonstration Programs, Diffusion
Rolph, John E.; And Others – 1978
A study was conducted to predict performance of majority and minority students in medical school by analyzing results of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), Parts I and II. Data were collected from members of the 1975 and 1976 graduating classes of nine medical schools, and included Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores,…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, College Choice, College Entrance Examinations
Gerard, Harold B. – 1968
A longitudinal study to determine the conditions surrounding successful or unsuccessful integration of Negroes, Mexican Americans, and Anglos in the Riverside Unified School District in Riverside, California, began in school year 1965-66, and included kindergarten through grade 6. Test batteries placed emphasis on achievement "related…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Adjustment (to Environment), Black Stereotypes, Black Students
Stenner, A. Jackson; Katzenmeyer, W.G.
Structural integrity of a measure is defined in terms of its replicability, constancy, invariance, and stability. Work completed in the development and validation of the Self Observation Scales (SOS) Primary Level (Stenner and Katzenmeyer, 1973) serves to illustrate one method of establishing structural integrity. The name of each scale of the SOS…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Bilingual Students, Black Students, Chinese Americans
Harris, Dale B.; Pinder, Glenn D. – 1977
The results of a modified version of the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test are presented in relation to selected demographic and socioeconomic factors as they affect youths aged 12-17 years in the noninstitutionalized population of the United States. Findings are based on data gathered on a sample of 6,768 adolescents who participated in the Health…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Age Differences, Correlation
Echternacht, Gary – 1975
This study sought to identify distinguishing characteristics of high school vocational students. Academic ability, post secondary school plans, student ratings of their school, psychological variables, values, extracurricular activites, and the influence of various key people were used as independent measures for identifying vocational students.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Planning, Comparative Analysis, Discriminant Analysis

Leigh, Duane E. – 1975
The primary purpose of this paper is to improve on the specification of job experience as measured by current age, minus age at completion of formal schooling. The process of acquiring productive job skills was modeled by first focusing on the determination of the level of first-job occupation and then, given initial occupation, examining the…
Descriptors: Age, Black Employment, Blacks, Career Change
Hilton, Thomas L. – 1971
This final report summarizes all phases of a completed longitudinal research program investigating intellectual growth and vocational development of students from fifth to twelfth grade. Student development over time was studied as an interaction between school, community and family, with each factor influencing career choice. Research objectives…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development
Tippeconnic, John W., III – 1975
Testing the hypothesis that there is a positive relationship between the degree of teacher humanism in pupil control ideology and the degree of favorable student attitude toward school, classmates, and teachers, comparisons were made relative to public and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools. Derived from 6 public and 7 BIA boarding schools…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1977
Since the U.S. Office of Education figures showed (at the time of this report) that on the average, 850,000 young people were dropping out of high school every year, 800,000 more were graduated from high school with no specific marketable skills, and 900,000 were dropping out of universities, junior colleges, and training schools, the study…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Basic Skills, Blacks, Communication Skills
Settersten, Richard A., Jr., Ed.; Furstenberg, Frank F. Jr., Ed.; Rumbaut, Ruben G., Ed. – University of Chicago Press, 2005
"On the Frontier of Adulthood" reveals a startling new fact: adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. A lengthy period before adulthood, often spanning the twenties and even extending into the thirties, is now devoted to further education, job exploration, experimentation in romantic relationships, and personal development. Pathways into…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Public Policy, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Thernstrom, Abigail; Thernstrom, Stephan – 2003
This book analyzes the achievement gap in education, examining the depth of the problem, the inadequacy of conventional explanations, and the limited impact of Title I, Head Start, and other familiar programs. It explains how, scattered across the country, there are excellent schools getting good results with high-needs students. These rare…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian American Students, Black Students, Cultural Differences
Roberson, Donald N., Jr. – 2002
Malcolm Knowles' theory of andragogy asserts that adult learners learn differently from younger learners and hence require a different kind of education. According to Knowles, andragogy is characterized by the following hallmarks: adult learners are self-directed, have accumulated vast experiences that add to their knowledge, are at a stage in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Andragogy
Ford, Donna Y. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2004
With so many unanswered questions and controversies regarding intelligence, testing in general, and testing diverse students in particular, what can educators in gifted education do to ensure that these students have access to and are represented in gifted education programs and services? In this monograph, the author examines test bias by first…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Educational Research, Educational Testing, Standardized Tests