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Building upon earlier confirmatory factor analytic research that validated a. second-order, threefactor structure of the Beck Depression Inventory for Canadian and Swedish nonclinical adolescents, this study tested the factorial structure of the Swedish version of the instrument separately for 559 males and 537 females, and tested its measurement and structural equivalence across gender. Except...

EDRS PRICE ' MF 01 ) PCO 2 Plus Postage . DESCRIPTORS * Deafness ; * Decoding ( Reading ) ; Elementary Secondary

Twenty-five second generation deaf signers (6-16 years old) participated in three experiments measuring their ability to classify fingerspelled and signed words and attend to the . individual handshapes within fingerspelled words. Results revealed that Ss could discriminate,fingerspelled words and decompose fingerspelling into the handshapes that map:into English orthography. Even the youngest ...

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ABSTRACT Research conducted in the United States has found . that people exert more effort when they perfarm a task individually than when they do so in a group. This phenomenon has been labeled social loafing. To examine the transcultural generality of social ' loafing, 20 male anck2.0 female Chinese,school children in Taiwan were selected from grades 2, 3, 6, and/9. They were asked to shout a...

Evaluation of Minority Retention Programs: The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program at the University of Michigan

EDRS PRICE MFO1 /PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Black Student, *College Freshmen; College Sophomores; Dropout Prevention; Faculty Advisers; Higher Education; Identification (Psychology); *Minority Groups; *Program Evaluation; *Research Assistants; Research Opportunities; School Attitudes; *School Holding Power; Student Characteristics; *Undergraduate Students; White Students IDENTIFIERS *Univer...