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Passmore, David Lynn – 1981
About 2.7 of every 10 16- through 24-year-olds unemployed during March, 1979, were discharged from their last jobs. Regression analysis of data from the March, 1979, Current Population Survey revealed that 16- and 17 year-olds were more than twice as likely as 20- through 24-year-olds to have lost their last job; veterans were about 1.5 times as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age, Age Differences
Becker, Henry Jay – 1977
This report examines the existing literature concerning how young people enter the labor market and specifies what important questions may be analyzed by existing but untapped data and what issues require further research. In reviewing the extent of current knowledge, its scope is found to be limited to three general areas: the role is known of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Background, Bibliographies
Brown, Laurence A., Jr.; Sell, G. Roger – 1977
In order to determine why course enrollments in the SUN (State University of Nebraska) program, which is the University of Mid-America's course delivery system in Nebraska, were markedly lower than expected over a two-year period, a telephone survey with a stratified sample of approximately 1,200 adults was conducted. The survey questions provided…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adults, Age Differences
Sharma, Satish – 1979
Two rural villages with similar characteristics were selected in Punjab (northern India) in order to study attitudes towards planned socio-economic development programs. All household heads (married males) in Bhagpura (123) and Khaira Bet (116) were interviewed; other data were derived separately. Program acceptance (modernism) in both villages…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Attitude Change, Caste
Hobbs, E. D.; And Others – 1979
Achievement Tests in biology, chemistry, physics, earth and space science were administered to 100,000 students in grades 4, 8, and 12. The tests did not reflect course content, they were based instead upon five goals: understanding of scientific concepts, processes, applications, safety, and literacy. A panel judged that performance was less than…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Attitude Measures, Curriculum Evaluation
Johnson, Sylvia T. – 1976
A model of self concept in children was examined by conducting a construct validation of a self concept instrument, the Self-Appraisal Inventory (SAI). The SAI was an 80-item instrument with four subscales: General, Family, Peer and Scholastic, all of which were based on behavioral objectives. The model was made more useful for a school setting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education
Veroff, Joseph; And Others – 1971
A series of studies and analyses to develop brief, reliable measures of intelligence and achievement motivation that would be feasible for use in a cross-sectional sample is summarized. One measure of intelligence meets these criteria. It is a 13-item test of sentence completion skill, which correlates effectively with other measures of…
Descriptors: Achievement, Age Differences, Educational Background, Evaluation Criteria
Moon, Robert D. – 1975
An analysis of the 1970 Elementary School Survey was undertaken to determine the effects of large Federal expenditures for early childhood programs. This national survey gathered data from 3,500 schools, including observations of 20,000 teachers on 80,000 students in grades 2, 4, and 6. The following comparisons were made for second, fourth, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education

Stankovich, Mary Jo; And Others – 1979
The transcripts of the 115 Macomb Community College (MCC) students who graduated in 1978 with an Associate of General Studies degree were analyzed to determine data frequency counts, percentage distributions, and descriptive measurements which profiled the graduates in terms of demography, educational background, veteran status, attendance…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Associate Degrees, Attendance Patterns, College Graduates
Selman, Robert L.; And Others – 1977
This paper describes an on-going study in which clinical research techniques are used to examine children's social cognition and its development. The study focuses on the relation between subjects' verbally expressed reasoning about social issues in two situations: during interview sessions and in natural life settings. Subjects for the study are…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Observation Techniques, Developmental Psychology
Sheppard, Harold L. – 1971
The document offers four research studies dealing with the older worker. The first study, "A Perspective on the Status of Older Americans in Today's Job Market," goes beyond the ordinary statistical analyses of the labor force participation of older adults, and deals with age discrimination by employers and Employment Service offices.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age, Age Differences, Career Change
Gallatin, Judith – 1972
The development of political thinking during adolescence was studied by interviewing 463 suburban and urban schoolchildren of average intelligence in grades 6, 8, 10, and 12. Each subject was interviewed individually by means of a Piaget-type questionnaire. Analysis of the questionnaire responses revealed a very distinctive developmental pattern.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Attitude Change
New York Univ., NY. – 1968
This paper contains the results of a drug use questionnaire given to undergraduate and graduate students in various fields of study, in September 1967. The results are listed according to numerous considerations, among them, sex, age, marital status, study area, domicile, and type of drug used. The roles and policies of the University in education…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Alcoholism, College Housing, College Role
Cline, Marvin G. – 1966
To reemphasize the dangers inherent in the misuse of testing instruments, a study of language and cognitive development in poverty preschoolers investigated 1) whether the interpretation of Peabody scores could be applied to this population, and 2) the contribution of the linguistic form of the Peabody to performance. (MS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Anxiety, Black Students
Hendrix, Sandra; Dokecki, Paul R. – 1973
This paper is a preliminary report of a project designed to determine the family and other environmental factors which are associated with effective functioning in children from low income environments. The purpose of the project was to determine the strengths in poverty situations which should be capitalized on in developing educational programs…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Behavior Patterns