Money has significant impact on people's motivation and behavior. This study examined attitudes toward money of first-year undergraduate university students (N=68) in National Taiwan University. The Money Ethic Scale (MES) was used to identify six factors concerning the meaning of money: good, evil, achievement, respect, budget, and freedom. A personality questionnaire measured the Protestant Work Ethic (PWE), the leisure ethic, and the internal-external locus of control. The results indicated...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
This paper reports on the responses of a cohort of preservice primary teachers to a statement about the extent to which helping children achieve relational understanding is a realistic expectation. Although the preservice teachers' course had included teaching about understanding a number of misconceptions about the meanings of relational and instrumental understanding were evident in the responses of a sizeable minority, along with evidence that many held beliefs that were likely to result in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Misconceptions, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Beswick, Kim
The paper presents an annotated bibliography of children's books (1975-1984) designed to promote understanding of handicapped children. Books were gathered from searches of the literature as well as Books In Print. Selection criteria are described. Entries are presented alphabetically by author, within disability groups (visually handicapped, hearing impaired, speech impaired, orthopedically impaired, specific learning disability, mentally retarded, and multiply handicapped). A final category,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Childrens Literature, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Attitudes
The book offers firsthand accounts of the experiences and perceptions of disabled persons, as well as the views of parents of disabled children. Entries include the following titles: "Reflections of Disabled Children" (J. Umbreit and D. Baker); "The Handicap That Had No Name" (D. Brown); "Orthopedically Disabled: Determination on Wheels" (D. Lattin); "I'm a Person, Not a Wheelchair! Problems of Disabled Adolescents" (M. Winter and D. DeSimone);...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitudes, Disabilities, Parent Attitudes, Personal Narratives, Student Attitudes
Research examining how consumption of alcohol is expected to affect the sexuality of young men and women has found that subjects who rated the female drinker expected alcohol to facilitate a greater increase in sexuality for the target than did subjects who rated the male drinker. This research, however, did not employ a nonalcohol drinking control condition. This study was conducted to examine subjects' expectations of men's and women's sexuality (or more specifically, their level of interest...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Dating (Social), Drinking, Expectation, Higher Education,...
Religious clients prefer to see a therapist who has a belief system similar to their own. In this study college students (N=194) from undergraduate psychology classes rated their willingness to see four hypothetical counselors when the word spirituality was included or excluded from the counselors' descriptions. Each counselor description included a name, academic degree, qualifications, years of experience, counseling style, specialty areas, clientele, and photograph of a woman between the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Qualifications, Higher...
Much of the research on sex bias looks at impressions at a single point in time. However, impressions are often changed as information is accumulated. This study attempted to look at the dynamic nature of impression formation. Impressions of both male and female job applicants were measured before and after subjects had an opportunity to view relevant information about the applicant, and the amount of information used by each subject was recorded. Subjects were 72 male and 85 female volunteers...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Change, College Students, Higher Education, Job Applicants, Sex Bias, Sex...
This document describes a study to assess the change in students' responses toward the visual arts as a result of their participation in an entrance level art course. The course was structured to provide the students with an understanding of art skills, a recognition of excellence in art objects, and knowledge of diversity of delivery through style and media. The students were provided with a forum to produce, criticize, and make judgments in the visual arts. Student responses toward art works...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Educational Research, Secondary Education, Student...
A sample of 88 seniors completed the 1971 Senior Survey questionnaire (Part II) concerning their experiences at the State University of New York, Buffalo. These students had a generally favorable opinion of the SUNY/B faculty they knew, and they expressed a somewhat more positive view of faculty in their own departments than of others. The academic activities that were the most important contributors to the students' academic education were: class lectures, general preparation for class, and,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Student College Relationship, Surveys, Faulman,...
A project at Loyola University introduced microcomputers into the animal operant laboratory taught in conjunction with a course on the psychology of learning. An IBM-compatible (Zenith) microcomputer, interfacing components, and the OPERANT/PC software program were selected to control the operant chambers and collect data. An instructor-generated survey was conducted to assess students' prior experience and computer skills, and handouts, demonstrations, and an initial computer assignment were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Higher Education, Laboratory...
Facts on teenage pregnancy, particularly with reference to Minnesota, are discussed. Contents discuss the following topics: Teenage pregnancy is a significant problem in the United States; adolescents' stage of development influences their views on sexuality; many sexually active adolescents do not use contraceptives; adolescent males have special family planning needs; and, family planning programs for teens are necessary and cost-effective. Concluding remarks suggest action policy-makers can...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Family Planning, Family Problems, Individual...
The focus of this paper is on the relative contribution of participating in a first-year seminar to student satisfaction and the retention of students in the second year at a Research I, urban, and public university. The study compared the measured satisfaction levels of students enrolled in a first-year seminar with students who were not enrolled in such seminars. The relationship between participation in a first-year seminar and retention was investigated by using a logistic regression model...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Participation,...
Attitudes of 50 kindergarten and 50 first grade students with normal hearing toward peers wearing hearing aids were examined. Students viewed eight pictures depicting children in various conditions of hearing aid use (standard body aid, post-auricular aid, in-the-ear aid, and no hearing aid). For each picture, Ss were given nine sets of bipolar adjectives and asked to make a choice for each. Results suggested that the presence or absence of a hearing aid was not perceived uniformly but rather...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Hearing Aids, Hearing Impairments, Kindergarten, Primary Education, Student Attitudes
Recent reserach has attempted to determine systematically how attitudes influence behavior. This research examined whether access to attitude-relevant beliefs and prior experiences would mediate the relation between attitudes and behavior. Subjects were 49 college students with a mean age of 27 who did not live with their parents or in dormitories. Subjects' opinions toward preservation of the environment and their recall of preservation-related beliefs and experiences were assessed during the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior, College Students, Conservation (Environment), Higher Education, Recycling,...
In these workshop materials, Perry's scheme of intellectual and ethical development is graphically portrayed. This is followed by: (1) an epistemological overview of positions two to five of the Perry scheme (what to learn, how to learn, how to think, and how to judge in context); (2) an overview of Perry scheme instrumentation; (3) Perry rating cues for the measure of intellectual development, focusing on a view of knowledge and learning, the role of authority, role of learners/peers,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Epistemology, Ethics, Higher Education, Individual Development, Intellectual...
This report is the continuation report of an evaluation of the implementation of the Individually Guided Education (IGE) Program in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District which began during the second year of the program implementation in 1973-74. The evaluation continued to focus this year on the achievement of program inputs, processes, and outcomes in 11 IGE and 11 matched comparison schools. The major emphasis of the evaluation this year was on determining program effects on student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Program...
The Political World Interview asks the adolescent to imagine a group of people going to a new island where they must set up laws and a government. The interview then probes their reasoning by raising a series of hypothetical proposals and rules. For example, one item asks if the government should require all people to go to church. Designed to tap the adolescent's reasoning processes, the items deal with issues faced by democracies and governments generally, such as limitations on power, on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Activism, Adolescents, Guides, Interviews, Political Attitudes, Politics,...
Several reasons for studying motion pictures and patrons' attitudes toward them include the following: (1) current data show that motion pictures account for 53% of the total United States spectator amusement expenditures; (2) the average weekly United States movie attendance has plummeted by more than half since 1930; (3) despite this decline, box office records continue to be broken by one or two films annually; and (4) there is little systematic collection and dissemination of movie audience...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Change, Audiences, College Students, Films, Higher Education, Media...
The Learning Environment Inventory (LEI) measures student perceptions of the social climate of high school classrooms. The My Class Inventory (MCI), a simplified version of the LEI, is suitable for younger children 8 to 12 years of age. This manual is a revised version of a 1976 manual (previously revised in 1971). In addition to its many editorial changes, the present manual includes a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of research involving use of the LEI and MCI in numerous countries,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classrooms, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation...
During the summer and fall orientation of 1968, 1970, and 1972, a questionnaire prepared by the American Council on Education was administered to the incoming freshmen at the University of South Carolina and 528 other institutions of higher education, including 2-year colleges, 4-year colleges, and universities. The resulting summary data on entering freshmen included information on the entering freshmen at the University of South Carolina and weighted normative data base on questionnaire...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Freshmen, College Students, Higher Education, Religion, Student Attitudes,...
The eroticism which is often present in the classroom has potential creative or destructive power, while the creative use of eroticism depends on the acknowledgement that eroticism exists in some teacher-student relationships, the destructive effect of this eroticism--the denial of its existence--can be feelings of rejection (as seen in "Up the Down Staircase"). Self-acceptance and self-appreciation of eroticism (the new Narcissus) stimulates students' minds and leads to the freedom...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Achievement, Higher Education, Self Esteem, Student Attitudes, Student...
The broad range of changes during high school years is the focus of Youth in Transition, a longitudinal study of over 2,000 boys which began during their tenth-grade year. Open-end interview questions asked in 1966 were repeated 18 months later during the second of three rounds of data collection. The boys were asked to tell the major problems in their lives. The results, reported here as a by-product of the total study, revealed a striking increase in worry about the Vietnam war and the draft....
Topics: ERIC Archive, High School Students, Interviews, Longitudinal Studies, Males, Military Service,...
The purpose of this study was to discover the extent to which the satisfaction of graduate students is associated with the collegiality of faculty-student relationships within the student's own department, the competitiveness of student-student relationships within the department, and the discrepancy between what the student expected graduate school to be like and the reality of graduate school as he perceives it. Seven hundred and sixty-two graduate students at a Midwestern University were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Student Teacher Relationship,...
Two Basic Skill Centers were set up in Minneapolis in 1969 to help inner-city students improve their reading skills. This report covers the fourth year's operation of the project. The goals of the program include remediation of subskill weaknesses, achievement of functional reading levels, and raising the rate of reading growth of children in Target Area schools, who were one or more years below grade level in reading. Individualized instruction was provided for 675 students from grades 3-7,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Tables (Data), Teacher Attitudes, Clark, Sara H.
A basic assumption of the transfer-of-control paradigm is that education involves a gradual shift in responsibility for learning from the teacher to the student. Several issues derived from this approach have been investigated in the three studies reported here: relationship between teacher characteristics and teacher control styles; the effects of different teacher control strategies on student value decisions, performances, and satisfactions; and interactions among teacher control style,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Behavior, Teacher...
This study, part of a larger investigation of African immigrants to the United States, focused on the issues of the African immigrants racial and ethnic identity in relation to African American counterparts and the struggle against Americanization for some of these immigrant students. Also studied were African immigrants perceptions of themselves in the realm of education. Participants were a small sample of black African college students, who were voluntary immigrants. Personal interviews were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Acculturation, African Culture, College Students, Cultural Differences, Higher...
Beginning in 1980, all those who took the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) could request a test disclosure package containing a "mini-testbook" of the questions used in scoring the candidate's test, a copy of the candidate's answer sheet, an answer key, conversion tables, and scoring information. The purpose of this study was to examine test-takers' reactions to these materials and to investigate examinees' perceptions of the effects of test disclosure in general. Respondents...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Entrance Examinations, Disclosure, Higher Education, Questionnaires, Scores,...
A study examined the trajectory of uncertainty about a partner (target uncertainty) and uncertainty about what to say and do (conversational uncertainty) during initial interaction, those factors of the interaction which impact uncertainty, and the extent to which uncertainty reduction is mutual and collects around "critical events." Subjects, 42 opposite-sex dyads consisting of undergraduates enrolled in communication courses at a large southwestern university, met for four minutes...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Higher Education, Interpersonal...
This report shows the results of a questionnaire on academic experiences, administered to students at four different colleges. Included in the term "academic experiences" are such factors as mental activities in class and in studying for class, the role of the teacher, motivation for studying, feelings about courses, and patterns of work. Two main implications from this study are: (1) different approaches to curriculum, teaching, and evaluation do make a substantial difference to the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Motivation, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Study Habits, Teacher Role, Two Year...
This paper, prepared for a faculty seminar in conjunction with an NDEA International Affairs Institute, examines data collected in numerous studies on the political attitudes of children and adolescents. Four widely used models derived to deal with political socialization (the accumulation model, the identification model, the role transfer model, and the cognitive development model) and one less frequently used model (the reduction expansion model) are offered in the opening pages. The major...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitude Change, Political Socialization, Student Attitudes, Torney, Judith V.
This paper is a summary report of a study undertaken to examine the conceptualization and function of college images as a factor in college choice. More specifically, the investigation was focused on the images held of 3 University of California campuses by entering freshmen. It included an examination of (1) the accuracy of the images held by freshmen prior to their actual enrollment at their respective campuses; (2) how entering freshmen obtained their information and impressions of the U. C....
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Choice, Environmental Influences, Environmental Research, Higher Education,...
The responses of 15,357 undergraduates at the University of Maryland, College Park, to the University Student Census are summarized in this study. Results indicate students felt the hardest part of adjusting to college life is selecting a major field of study or career. The census also reported results concerning: part-time jobs; residence; reasons for attending the University; attitudes toward courses and classroom organization; Student Government Association representation; need for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Student Problems, Landry,...
This final report describes activities and accomplishments of a 3-year project at California State University Chico (CSUC) to reengineer the 2-semester elementary accounting course. The new model emphasized, first, shifting from the traditional view of the preparer of accounting information to that of the user; second, forcing the student to adopt an active learning mode; and, third, developing problem-solving, interpersonal, and computer skills. During the 3-year period of the grant,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accounting, Attitude Change, College Instruction, Curriculum Development, Higher...
Included in this addendum are the findings for the Noel-Levitz 2012 National Freshman Attitudes Report by race/ethnicity for incoming students. These data show the percentage of students within each group that agreed with each item. Also included in this paper are the demographic breakdown of the respondents and a brief explanation of the statistical processes used to produce these data. [For the full report, "National Freshman Attitudes Report, 2012. An Exploration of Attitudes that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Race, Ethnicity, Demography, Educational...
Six separate pieces of information comprise this packet of background material on the National Instructional Television Center (NIT). Two brief descriptive statements provide an overview of the history and current operation of NIT and a summary of the consortium concept as it has been utilized by the Center to produce three series of films--"Ripples,""Images and Things," and "Inside/Out." Following this is a listing of the more than 30 agencies which cooperated to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Affective Behavior, Consortia, Educational Television, Elementary Education,...
The Office of Institutional Research conducted an evaluation of the Pass-No Pass (P-N) grading system at the University of Wisconsin-Stephens Point. The second semester, 1971-72, was chosen for the basis of evaluation. Sources of information include student records, a brief questionnaire sent to students who chose at least one P-N course, and a brief questionnaire to faculty who taught the courses chosen under the P-N option. Findings and tables are listed. Investigator's conclusions indicate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Grading, Higher Education, Pass Fail Grading, Program...
The University Opinion Poll conducted a poll to obtain an estimate of student opinion on issues related to foreign students on campus. Four hundred eighty two, 79% of a random sample drawn from all students registered at the University of Minnesota, were contacted for their opinions. Most respondents favored keeping the number of foreign students on campus the same, and most favored continuation of the nonresident tuition policy. They also favored allowing foreign students to work without...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Students, Higher Education, Questionnaires, Research Projects, Student...
This study investigated the attitudes toward statistics of graduate students who used a computer program as part of the instructional effort, which allowed for an individualized, self-paced, student-centered activity-based course. The 9 sections involved in the study were offered in 2001 through 2003, and there were 75 participants for whom there were complete data. Of these, 75% were female. The design of the study was a single-sample pretest-posttest with no control group since the students...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Statistics, Student Attitudes, Kennedy, Robert L.,...
This document presents a report of the proceedings of a conference at which student leaders from all types of colleges and universities all over the country attempted to answer the question, "What should be done to reform American higher education?" At the bottom of every philosophical system there is a fundamental conception of man. The students tried to envision an educational system compatable with a belief in the basic rationality and decency of the individual on the one hand, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational...
A structure is proposed by which nurse educators may unravel the contradictions in learning style research and see more clearly the importance of learning style theory and its applications to nursing education and nursing practice. The application of learning style theory most evident in the nursing literature appears to encompass four major dimensions: (1) learner preference, (2) learner response style, (3) information processing, and (4) cognitive style. Utilizing these theoretical notions in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Nursing,...
Little research on death awareness (defined as the number of deaths experienced, frequency of thoughts about death, and awareness of a grief/mourning period) has been done and little is known about levels of awareness at different ages, though such knowledge would be valuable to bereavement counselors. Contrary to the hypothesis that college age students have a low level of death awareness, a survey of 64 college age students from a midwestern university revealed that they are moderately aware...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bereavement, College Students, Death, Grief, Higher Education, Student Attitudes,...
In research on equity and justice some investigators have reported that men and women use different allocation norms in distributing rewards; men using an equity rule and women an equality rule, while others conclude that such sex differences in reward allocation appear primarily when the allocator is also a co-recipient of the reward. The present study exposed male and female subjects (129 male, 191 female) to three distributive fairness conditions to examine the role of sex in fairness...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Grades (Scholastic), Higher Education, Observation, Rewards, Sex...
The present study sought to provide data that will contribute to an understanding of how a select group of graduating college seniors perceive and feel about work. The sample was composed of 1,860 male and female members of the class of 1972 at 5 colleges in Pennsylvania. The vast majority of the seniors expressed favorable attitudes toward work and see it as a critical and necessary part of adult life. The data suggest the work ethic is neither dead nor dying; rather a work ethic is emerging...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Graduates, Employment, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Surveys, Work...
This report presents data from an annual survey of high school student leaders and high achievers. It is noted that of the nearly 700,000 high achievers featured in this edition, 5,000 students were sent the survey and 2,092 questionnaires were completed. Subjects were high school juniors and seniors selected for recognition by their principals or guidance counselors, other faculty members, national youth organizations or the publishing company because of their high achievement in academic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High Achievement, High School Seniors, High School Students, High Schools, National...
Science education has become one of the priorities of education in the United States. Teachers in several schools have begun to use science kits as one tool to assist them in teaching science. Despite the wide use of science kits, little has been done to determine their effectiveness in promoting science learning. The purpose of this paper is to show how the use of science kits has affected students learning and attitudes toward science in several schools in Southwest Michigan. The subjects of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Learning Modules,...
To measure the success of the recently opened Tarrant County Junior College, a follow-up study was conducted to determine personal characteristics of students, their opinions of their studies at this school, and their post-Tarrant County Junior College activities. Surveys were designed for a group of students who had taken at least one occupational education course and for another group who should have completed 60 credit hours by the end of spring semester 1969 (university-parallel students)....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Individual Characteristics, School Demography,...
This study is based on the results of two identical attitude instruments that were administered to students at Kent State University before and after the shooting of four students by National Guardsmen on May 4, 1970. The attitude instruments had been constructed to permit interconcept comparisons with one data collection. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the events surrounding May 4th had significantly influenced the attitudes of Kent State undergraduates. On a scale of 1...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evaluation, Faculty, Higher Education, Measurement Instruments, Self Concept, Student...
This qualitative research study was conducted at one alternative high school to examine why traditional high school dropouts attend alternative schools. Data were gathered over three stages of research during a 2-year period. Sources of data included 105 hours of site observations, student interviews, and the review of site documents. The data revealed that the students at the alternative high school had established a significant level of informal control. Four major assertions were supported...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High School Students, High Schools, Nontraditional Education, Potential Dropouts,...
The spring of 1969 at the State University of New York at Buffalo was a time of student protest. The student's demands for change involved both campus and off-campus issues: (1) that students control 50% of the voting power in university decisionmaking; (2) that black students determine university policy affecting them; (3) that the Buffalo Police Commissioner be removed from office; (4) that all defense research on the campus be halted; (5) that students be given a legitimate role in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Activism, College Students, Demonstrations (Civil), Higher Education, Student...
This survey is the second of a series of five surveys seeking to determine the characteristics and attitudes of male and female engineering students and the changes in these areas as students proceed through their first two years in engineering programs. Fifteen of the original 16 study schools included in the first survey were included in this survey. A questionnaire of 60 items was administered to a sample of students; 983 instruments were returned. Data are presented for the 60 items. These...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitudes, Educational Research, Engineering, Engineering Education, Higher...
This study surveyed college students' and faculty's feelings toward and knowledge of gays and lesbians. A 20-question survey assessing attitudes toward, opinions of, personal feelings about the knowledge of gays and lesbians was distributed to 450 entering college freshmen at the University of Maine, Farmington. Of these, the first 150 to be completed were used. In addition, surveys were completed by 36 faculty, 14 clerical staff, 31 professional staff, and 7 others, a response rate of 59...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Homosexuality, Knowledge Level,...
This paper will discuss the results of a study in which junior-level college students were asked to select the Dictionary of Occupational Titles worker function numbers (Data, People, Thing), D.O.T. general education development numbers (reasoning development, mathematical development, and language development), and the D.O.T. specific vocational preparation numbers for the profession they hope to occupy after graduation. The student-selected numbers were then compared with the actual numbers...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Occupational Information, Job Skills,...
This study proposed improvements to the sole question posed former students in the British Columbia (BC) colleges and institutes Student Outcomes Survey concerning the incidence of students requesting "transfer credits" and the problems associated with it. The current survey question asked students whether or not they attempted to transfer credits, whether any problems were encountered, and what these problems were in broad terms. By analyzing both the quantitative and qualitative...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Transfer Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Outcomes of...
An annotated bibliography of drug abuse research instruments is presented. The inventory is divided into six sections: attitudes; measurement of effects of drugs; differentiation and characteristics of abusers; access and extent; education and knowledge; and program-related and evaluation. (RS)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Attitudes, Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Health Education,...
Considerable research has gone into the development of student questionnaires for instructional evaluation. Somewhat less effort has been devoted to development of methods for diagnosis and remediation of instructional problems, but such methods are needed in any comprehensive instructional evaluation system. This paper will focus on diagnostic evaluation as a formative process, with discussion of the timing of evaluative procedures and the forms that these procedures could take. The analogues...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Improvement, Questionnaires, Speeches, Student...
This study of the impact of the student vote in California was based on a comprehensive analysis of 54,000 student votes. The precinct analysis method was utilized to examine the voting returns of precincts which contain very close to 100% student populations. Results of the study encompassed an overview of the student vote; voter turnout; presidential results; congressional, state senate, and assembly races; and state ballot propositions. Factors affecting how students vote included...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Citizenship Responsibility, Colleges, Political Issues, Student Attitudes, Student...
In 2009 the Group of Eight (Go8) commissioned market research to examine the attitudes, perceptions and experiences of Australia as a destination for study at the Higher Research Degree level. This backgrounder highlights some of the positive aspects of the Australian experience. The top five aggregated strengths of Australia as a research destination were: Australia's multicultural society, the friendly and welcoming nature of Australian society, the quality of Australia's universities, the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Perception, Higher Education, Satisfaction,...
A SUMMARY WAS PREPARED OF A TWO-PART STUDY OF THE AESTHETIC ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS TOWARDS CONTEMPORARY MUSIC. PART 1 SURVEYED THE AUDIENCES AT SIX CONCERTS TO FIND A PATTERN OF ATTITUDES BY (1) STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MUSIC, (2) AGE AND EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF THE AUDITORS, (3) MUSICAL BACKGROUND, AND (4) SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND. PART 2 DREW UPON A SAMPLE OF 1,300 STUDENTS FROM GRADES 4 THROUGH 12. AN EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN WAS ESTABLISHED IN THIS PHASE WHICH PERMITTED ANALYSIS OF THE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Music, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, HORNYAK, R. ROBERT
Educators and computer scientists have the obligation to humanize students' images of the computer. This can be achieved if students can be brought to realize that computers can be viewed as extensions of the human brain, making possible otherwise inconceivable human advances. Students should be shown that these machines can perform functions similar to those of man's mind, such as mathematical calculations, following instructions, remembering, reasoning deductively, comparing, observing,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Humanism, Humanization, Speeches, Student...
Previous research suggests that belief in the uncontrollability of a situation results in maladaptive attempts to control outcomes; perceptions of cancer's uncontrollability may result in negative attitudes toward the disease and toward patients. To test this theory 160 college students read and responded to a paragraph describing a disease labeled either as cancer or as a fictitious disease. The descriptions were designed to manipulate subjects' perceptions of the degree to which the disease...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cancer, College Students, Higher Education, Locus of Control, Negative Attitudes,...
Recent discussions of achievement motivation hade introduced the notion of achievement orientations. Achievement orientations are constructs which reflect differences in defining success, standards of performance, and preferences for types of achievement tasks. This study investigated the perceived prevalence and evidence-to-inference links of traits related to conceptualizations of achievement through demonstrating competence and superiority. Traits related to demonstrating competence were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Achievement, College Students, Competence, Higher Education, Personality Traits,...
A comprehensive report that provides detailed descriptions of the study structure, the 12 areas investigated, the findings, and the recommendations of a 6-month project to determine the feasibility of operating the Long Branch, New Jersey, High School on a quinmester calendar. The study team covered administrative implementation, athletics and extracurricular activities, budget and facilities, community, commercial and industrial reaction, curriculum, faculty and staff, guidance, junior high...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Student Centered Curriculum, Teacher Attitudes, Year Round...
The Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) Division of the U.S. Army Signal Center and School (USASCS) at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey evaluated CAI's success in teaching basic electronics. An initial feasibility study, interim assessments, and a summative evaluation assessed the value of the developmental, user-oriented, individualized CAI programs created by the USASCS. The CAI material was presented in the tutorial mode on the IBM 1500 System, utilizing the IBM Coursewriter language, an IBM 1510...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Program Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Summative Evaluation, Tutorial Programs,...
Empirical research has consistently shown human values to be significantly related to both attitudes and behaviors. This paper unites the value theories of several researchers into an explanation of environmental concern, and provides some preliminary data to support the model. Attitudes toward environmental choices should be determined by underlying value orientations. The universalism value type, which takes a primary place within this model, includes the social values of equality, a world of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ecology, Environmental Education, Global Approach, Higher Education, Social Science...
Results of a survey of 514 students at San Jose City College (Calif.) who did not return for the 1967 spring semester showed that of the 428 respondents, (1) 156 entered another college (with 124 of these transferring to San Jose State), (2) 85 completed the A.A. degree and desired no further training, (3) 68 decided to work before completing their programs, (4) 40 listed financial problems as reasons for not continuing their studies, and (5) 43 moved away from the area. Also weighed were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropout Characteristics, Followup Studies, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Student...
This paper discusses change and development of student attitudes, especially in reading, and several alternative methods which are available for measurement and observation of change in attitudes. Important considerations for the reading teacher who is interested in developing student attitudes include establishing a positive environment which makes reading a pleasant experience, setting purposes for reading which avoid negative consequences, and projecting a positive attitude toward learning...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Affective Behavior, Attitude Change, Measurement Techniques, Reading, Reading...
The relationship between personalized computer-assisted instruction (CAI) and learning, attitude, and personality were examined. Subjects were 181 students, predominantly female, enrolled in a one-year teacher training course at McGill University. Treatments consisted of two versions of a series of ten CAI lessons, one written to appear highly personalized, the other non-personalized. Significant results were found in two areas: the group receiving the personalized version scored higher on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Assisted Instruction, Humanization, Individual Characteristics,...
The purpose of this paper is to operationally define four components of a mental set and describe how students can be taught to be aware of and control their mental set. Parameters of mental set include affect, attitude, focus, and meaning. It is argued that many factors essential to the success of a given task are at least partially, and perhaps greatly, controlled by the affective tone of an individual; the individual's attitudes; the extent to which the individual is goal-directed; and the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Ability, Definitions, Emotional Experience, Guidelines, Intervention,...
In an effort to find either support for or evidence contrary to the popularly accepted concept of student withdrawal into the self and student rejection of outside authority, Dr. Jeffrey K. Hadden administered a 246 question questionnaire to 2,000 students who came from every type of college campus. Five attitudes appeared to reflect the collective views of these students: (1) they were idealistic and socially aware; (2) their idealism often took the form of contempt for the older generation's...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitudes, College Students, Faculty, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Surveys,...
The values and goals of students from Harcum Junior College (Pennsylvania) a private, resident, all female college, were compared with students from Harrisburg Area Community College (Pennsylvania) a public, non-resident, co-ed college. The two groups of students were compared in terms of their parents' educational background, their educational goals, their most valued college experiences, and their most disappointing college experiences. It was found that although Harcum student's parents have...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Objectives, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics, Two Year...
This book contains proceedings of a colloquium convened to discuss the reform of medical education, specifically student pressures for such reform. The participants included students and faculty from 11 countries. Papers were presented and followed by panel discussions. The topics covered reviews and analyses of medical education in Latin America, France and Japan; the organization of new medical schools in Germany and New Zealand; student attitudes toward and participation in medical school...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Institutional Role, Medical Education, Medical Schools, Medical Students,...
This document reports the findings of the Inventory of Opinion and Expectation as administered to 1178 incoming freshmen at the State University of New York at Buffalo during the fall of 1971. It was found that the typical freshman at SUNY/B is a public high school graduate who found high school courses boring, repetitious and uninteresting, yet who anticipates a challenge in colleges. Most of the high school homework was written exercises and assigned readings, and the freshman expects...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Freshmen, Expectation, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Student...
This study reports findings related to student attrition in 13 colleges. Several tests, such as The Omnibus Personality Inventory, were used to determine the personality characteristics of students who leave college prior to graduation. Included in the findings are: (1) peers and parents rank high in the help asked for and received, with the college personnel coming in a poor third; (2) college personnel appear to be contacted after decisions to withdraw have been solidified; (3) 20% of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dropout Characteristics, Student Attitudes, Two Year Colleges, Hannah, William
Developing and administering the Community College Counselor Function Inventory to 75 students and their counselors, the author found a discrepancy between student and counselor perceptions of what counselor functions are important. Students tended to see the counselor role as primarily educational-occupational, while the counselors saw their role as dealing more with the personal area. Registering and scheduling of students and checking credits for graduation or transfer were perceived as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counselor Evaluation, Counselor Role, Student Attitudes, Two Year Colleges, DeVolder,...
Results of a number of studies of correlations between achievement in Reading and Study Skills Laboratory (RSSL) work at the University of Maryland and both academic achievement and personality variables are presented. Findings of early studies suggested that better students tended to stay in RSSL programs; whereas, later studies showed the opposite. It is suggested that this change might be due to differences in data collection or to a change in students: poorer students may be becoming more...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Programs, Motivation, Reading Achievement, Reading Skills, Student Attitudes,...
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