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Social Class--Sex Contrasts in Patterns of Cognitive Style
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Poole, Millicent E. – Australian Journal of Education, 1977
Ninety-six adolescents, 15 and 16, and drawn from contrasted social class and sex groups, were administered a battery of cognitive style tests. It was hypothesized, largely on the basis of socialization theory, that different patterns of intellectual functioning would be apparent. (Editor)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style
Identifying Early School Leaving
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Poole, Millicent E. – Australian Journal of Education, 1978
Using a matched sample of students who stay in school and those who drop out, or leave early, an attempt was made, via multiple discriminant analysis, to identify the significant characteristics which distinguish "drop outs" from their peers who remain at school. Results indicated that both types of students have similar value orientations and…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Educational Research, Measurement Instruments
Relationships between Verbal and Non-Verbal Abilities for Migrant Children and Australian Children of Low Socio-Economic Status: Similarities and Contrasts
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Evans, Glen T.; Poole, Millicent E. – Australian Journal of Education, 1975
Previous research indicates that mean patterns of mental ability show striking differences between different ethnic groups. In this paper, some salient features of information processing on which there are likely to be differences between children of Australian born parents of low SES and children of migrant parents are discussed. (Editor)
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Research, Information Processing, Migrant Children
Cultural Differences in the Exploration of Career and Leisure Possibilities by Adolescents in Australia and Singapore.
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Poole, Millicent E.; Cooney, George H. – Australian Journal of Education, 1985
The personal possibilities that 15-year-olds in Australia and Singapore perceived in relation to their career and leisure pursuits were examined. The extent to which both awareness of options and a consideration of multiple options for self were associated with culture, gender, and class was considered. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Exploration, Comparative Analysis
Adolescent Concerns: A Classification for Life Skill Areas.
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Evans, Glen T.; Poole, Millicent E. – Australian Journal of Education, 1987
Two surveys of 198 Australian high school students gathered information about the students' major life concerns, and a method for classifying adolescent concerns was developed from the results. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adolescents, College Bound Students, Daily Living Skills, Educational Needs
Evaluation of a Skills-based Language and Information Processing Program.
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Evans, Glen T.; Poole, Millicent E. – Australian Journal of Education, 1986
An innovative instructional program designed to improve children's skills in referential communication, especially in communicating descriptions and instructions, is evaluated. Insights gained into classroom organization and the teacher's level of adoption of the innovation are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Problems, Communication Skills
Social Class Differences in Code Elaboration: A Study of Oral Communications at the Tertiary Level
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Poole, Millicent E. – Australian Journal of Education, 1971
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Social Differences, Speech Communication
Reviewing for Research Excellence: Expectations, Procedures and Outcomes.
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Poole, Millicent E. – Australian Journal of Education, 1993
The process and criteria by which the Humanities and Social Sciences panel of the Australian Research Council evaluates research proposals are described and discussed. Peer review is the primary method of evaluation, and the primary criteria are the potential of a given proposal for significant conceptual advance and research/researcher quality.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Humanities