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Download full textMOSS, DORIS; RICHARDSON, ROBERT – 1967
A STUDY WAS MADE OF STUDENTS WHO DISCONTINUED ATTENDANCE IN THE ADULT BASIC EDUCATION COURSES PROVIDED BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE BRONX, MANHATTAN, BROOKLYN, AND QUEENS. DATA WERE GATHERED BY INTERVIEW OR SCHOOL FILES ON 306 PERSONS--167 NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING, PRIMARILY PUERTO RICANS, AND 139 NATIVE BORN, LARGELY NEGRO. MOST OF THE DROPOUTS WERE…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Age Groups, Blacks
Yadao, Fausto, Jr.; Warlow, G. L. – 1968
A study was made of the relationship of the relative scores of respondents on each of five learning orientations (learning, desire for sociability, personal goal, societal goal, and need fulfillment) to selected personal characteristics (age, sex, marital and family status, occupation, income, residence location, religious preference), social…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Extension Education, Family Status
Edgerton, Robert B. – 1967
The research staff contacted 53 mentally handicapped patients (mean age 34.3, mean IQ 65.3; 28 women, 25 men) discharged from a state hospital training and rehabilitation program. The 48 who cooperated were interviewed and studied for the ways in which they managed their lives and perceived themselves. No difference was found between the success…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Emotional Adjustment, Employer Employee Relationship
Thornton-Stahura, Barbara – 1976
Study objectives were to: derive a set of variables originating from background status attainments and proceeding through marital behavior via a literature search; develop models of marital happiness and family satisfaction by residence; delimit specific variables contributing to marital happiness and family satisfaction by residence within the…
Descriptors: Education, Emotional Adjustment, Family Life, Happiness
Fernandez, Edward W.; And Others – 1977
The report presents advance data from the March 1977 Current Population Survey on selected demographic, social, and economic characteristics of persons of Spanish origin. Persons of Spanish origin are divided into the subcategories of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, and other Spanish origin. Data pertain to such population…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Census Figures, Cubans
Osipow, Samuel H., Ed. – 1975
The volume, consisting of seven papers, provides some data-based inferences about how women choose and implement their careers, principal factors that influence the choice, and barriers that interfere with women's vocational potentialities. Chapter 1, Demographic and Social Factors in Women's Work Lives, and Chapter 2, Measuring the Vocational…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Career Choice, Career Development, Demography
Bachrach, Leona L. – 1974
Characteristics which distinguished patients at federally funded rural community mental health centers in 1971 from those at part rural and non-rural centers were explored. Variables examined were: demographic composition (age, color, and sex), socioeconomic characteristics (annual family income, educational attainment, and marital status),…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Demography, Family Income
Association of American Colleges, Washington, DC. Project on the Status and Education of Women. – 1975
Title IX of the Education Amendemtns of 1972 bars sex discrimination in any academic, extracurricular, research, occupational training or other educational program operated by an organization or agency that receives or benefits from federal aid. The regulation (45 CFR Part 86) for Title IX summarized in this document falls into five categories:…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Athletics, Counseling, Courses
Williams, James W. – 1974
This alumni survey evaluates Alcorn State University by two different methods. Objective data concerning the students' subjective ratings of Alcorn furnished the second means of evaluation. The classes of 1971, 1972, and 1973 were utilized as the particular alumni group to be studied, with 1,428 alumni being sent questionnaires and 446 alumni…
Descriptors: Alumni, Black Colleges, Black Students, Careers
Siegel, Earl; And Others – 1970
This study sought to establish the situational, demographic, and psychosocial characteristics, and the knowledge, attitudes, and practices, of low socioeconomic women as related to degree of involvement in a family planning program; and to determine the basic reasons for noninvolvement in the program. As for women newly admitted to the family…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns
Berardo, Felix M. – 1967
In order to gain greater comprehension of the heterogeneous character of older people and to learn more about the social conditions surrounding the aged survivor, this study focuses on certain sub-samples of the older population: the married and widowed. Specifically, it attempts to assess the social adaptation to widowhood among the aged in 3…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Family Relationship, Financial Support, Friendship
Peirce, Harry Edgar, Jr. – 1969
The purposes of this study were to: develop and measure the effectiveness of instructional units designed to enable young adult farmers to improve their ability to use farm management principles when making decisions, and measure the influence that independent variables have on the young farmer's level of understanding these principles.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Agricultural Education, Conventional Instruction, Doctoral Dissertations
Gurin, Gerald – 1970
Covering 5,891 trainees in a nationwide sample of 324 Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) classes, this longitudinal study concentrated on how trainee attitudes and motives relate to program completion versus dropping out, and to subsequent job histories. Wage rate, extent or duration of employment, completion, dropout status (for…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bibliographies, Employment Level, Family Status
McLean, Catherine D.; Lucas, Rex A. – 1970
The Quo Vadis School of Nursing, established in 1964, offers a two year program which prepares candidates to qualify as Registered Nurses; the unique feature of the school is that it accepts only mature students--between 30 and 50 years of age. The research program of the School was intended as a 10-year study with special emphasis on this unique…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, Attitudes, Experimental Programs
Kanun, Clara – 1970
Using official records and two sample surveys, this longitudinal study analyzed patterns of attendance and persistence among University of Minnesota General Extension Division evening class (EC) students. They tended to be young (under 30), male, and married. Roughly half each year were new to the university as well as to the evening classes.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Attendance Patterns, Day Students
