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Boettger, Mary Ann – 1994
This study examined whether the educational practice of retaining students in junior first grade for a year between kindergarten and first grade enhanced their academic achievement and self-concept of academic ability. Subjects were 120 students randomly selected from a midwestern school district and divided equally into 4 groups: (1) recommended…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Attendance
Hagedorn, Linda Serra; Doyle, Susan K. – 1993
This study, conducted at an urban research university, attempted to identify those conditions valuable in recruiting and subsequently retaining older (over 35 years of age) female doctoral students. The study used data from a Spring 1991 survey of all graduate students which solicited information about experiences, accomplishments, and growth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Age Groups, Chronological Age

Innocenti, Mark S. – 1994
This report is the fourth in a series of follow-up analyses of nine longitudinal studies addressing the costs and effectiveness of alternative types of early intervention for children with disabilities. An introduction provides an historical perspective and conceptual framework for the studies, including common study elements and how research…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
O'Sullivan, Julia T. – 1992
A study investigated the effects of sex and grade in school on students' reading proficiency, students' beliefs about their reading, parents' beliefs about the students' reading, and teacher's beliefs about the students' reading. The study also examined causal relationships between student, parent, and teacher beliefs and students' reading…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Portes, Pedro R.; And Others – 1993
Patterns of assistance in parent-child dyads were examined by developing measures that could be used to explore the nature of assistance and learner action sequences. A microgenetic approach was adopted in a teaching experiment that may be regarded as a variation of the double stimulation method of L. S. Vygotsky. A second goal was to explore the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Comparative Testing, Cross Cultural Studies
Johnson, Jeanie; Estes-Rickner, Bettie – 1991
This bibliography lists basic periodical titles that should be included in school library collections for elementary schools in Oklahoma. The periodicals are grouped by library phase of development, from the phase 1 stage with the smallest collections, to the expanded phase 3 collection. Each entry contains an annotation describing the use of the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
Hill, Nancy E. – 1993
A study examined age and sex differences in engagement style and locus of control and their influence on African-American parent-adolescent relationships. The study subjects were 71 students in 9th grade and 57 students in 11th grade from 4 high schools in a large midwestern city; 46 college freshmen attending a large midwestern university; and 46…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Black Students, Blacks
Wintre, Maxine Gallander; McVey, Gail – 1991
This study modifies and expands on earlier research in an effort to incorporate an examination of consultant's sex as an instrumental dimension in determining children's and adolescents' consultant preferences. It was hypothesized that: (1) children would prefer same-sex consultants, and this preference would continue for female adolescents; (2)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Consultants
Preisler, Bent; Caffi, Claudia – 1993
Two papers address different issues in linguistic theory. "Attitudes, Norms and Standardization in English: Some Aspects of the Language In Its Social Context," by Bent Preisler, looks at how attitudes affect language norms and ultimately, standardization in British and U.S. English. It begins with the attitudes and communicative…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Language, Communication Problems
Knezek, Gerald A.; Miyashita, Keiko T. – 1993
This paper presents the 1992 findings of a three-nation longitudinal study of the psychological effects of computer use during primary school. Results are based on an analysis of Likert-type ratings by 3,036 students in grades 1 through 3 at 21 elementary schools in Japan (1,236 students), the United States (1,072 students plus 247 Hispanic…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Cross Cultural Studies
McKinnon, Norma M. – 1991
At Northern Maine Technical College (NMTC), the mean age of students increased from 19.7 years in 1978 to 28.6 in 1991. In an effort to evaluate NMTC's nursing programs as perceived by traditional students (under 22 years of age) and nontraditional students (22 years of age or older), questionnaires were administered to 59 practical nursing…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis
Jones, Paul; Packham, Gary; Miller, Christopher; Jones, Amanda – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2004
The proliferation of e-Learning programmes on offer within the UK raises critical issues that have yet to be fully addressed in terms of the nature of learning, effective pedagogy, learning expectations and student profile. The amalgamation and influence of these factors is also having an impact upon student retention. This paper examines student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Withdrawal (Education), Student Attrition
McMurray, Alan R.; Bentley, Ernest L., Jr. – 1987
To test a situational leadership model, this study sought to determine (1) whether, among a population of educational administrators in East Tennessee, individuals possessing high flexibility/high effectiveness leadership characteristics can be identified and (2) whether those leaders consciously apply Hersey and Blanchard's concept of maturity…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Age Differences, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Shaw, Edward L., Jr.; Doan, Robert L. – 1990
The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference in attitude toward and achievement in science between boys and girls in grade two (n=129) and in grade five (n=154) and to compare the differences found for elementary school students to those found previously for middle school students. For this study, "attitude toward science" was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Career Choice, Career Guidance
Masters, James R. – 1986
In 1985, for the first time, Pennsylvania's student assessment program included measures of a higher order thinking skills goal termed Analytical Thinking. These tests utilize a decision-making model to assess such skills as drawing inferences, identifying appropriate information to gather before making a decision, analogical reasoning,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Cognitive Ability