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The Aboriginal EMPATHIC Program

Alternate Title
Aboriginal Emotional Maturity Problem-Solving & Awareness Targeting Higher Impulse Control Program
Building the Evidence. Evaluation Summaries ; 2009-ES-20
E-Books
Author/Creator
National Crime Prevention Centre
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American Indian Families

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Harriett K. Light
Ruth E. Martin
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 26, no. 1, October 1986, pp. [1-5]
Description
Identifies sources of strength and optimism of Native American women living in North and South Dakota.
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Anomy, Values and Culture Change Among Teen-Age Indians: An Exploratory Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stanton K. Tefft
Sociology of Education, vol. 40, no. 2, Spring, 1967, pp. 145-157
Description
Research conducted on Wind River high school students finds Arapaho teenagers appear to have difficultly in determining proper value choices compared to Shoshone and non-Aboriginal teenagers.
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Apologize or Analyze: Measuring Academic Achievement in the Reservation School

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sigmund A. Boloz
Richard Varrati
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 23, no. 1, October 1983, pp. [23-28]
Description
Claims that standardized test measurements of student performance do not adequately measure the quality of instruction and curricula of a school since other factors such as socio-economic status, school attendance and stability within a particular school have an impact on achievement.
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An Approach to the Mind of the Young Indian

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth E. Hoyt
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 1, no. 1, June 1961, pp. [17-23]
Description
Study analyzes aspirations of Indian students in South Dakota and the Southwest who wrote essays titled, "My Plans After Leaving School" or "My Hopes for My Life."
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Beyond 180 Days

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carl G. Foster
Emma Gabel
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 2, January 1986, pp. [18-23]
Description
Examines Chinle Agency's Summer Supplemental Special Education Program offered to teachers of Navajo tribes and surveys its effect on teacher attitudes toward the exceptional student.
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Bicognitive Education: a New Future for the Indian Child?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas Davis
Alfred Pyatskowit
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 15, no. 3, May 1976, pp. [14-21]
Description
Describes educational model that teaches Aboriginal school children how to think and react effectively within both of their worlds.
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Blueprints for Indian Education: Improving Mainstream Schooling

Alternate Title
ERIC Digest ; 372898
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Robin A. Buttlerfield
Description
Looks at results from the U.S. Department of Education's Indian Nations at Risk (INAR) Task Force and the White House Conference on Indian Education in 1992 regarding Native students in public schools and school reform.
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Brain-Hemispheric Functions and the Native American

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Allen Chuck Ross
Journal of American Indian Education, Special, August 1989, pp. [72-76]
Description
Author states traditional Native Americans are right hemisphere dominant, while the education system is oriented to the left brain.
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Cognitive and Personality Testing Use and Abuse

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joseph N. Cress
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 13, no. 3, May 1974, pp. [16-19]
Description
Cultural factors should be considered when testing Native American students.
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A Cognitive Pattern of the Yakima Indian Students

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rhett Diessner
Jacqueline L. Walker

Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 25, no. 2, January 1986, pp. [39-43]
Description
Wechsler test results studied to gain understanding of learning styles of high school students.
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Community Partnership to Affect Substance Abuse Among Native American Adolescents

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Lowe
Huigang Liang
Cheryl Riggs
Jim Henson
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, vol. 38, no. 5, September 2012, pp. 450-455
Description
Compares 2 interventions; the Cherokee Talking Circle with Be A Winner Standard Education. Data shows culturally based intervention was more effective then the non-cultural- based intervention.
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A Comparative Study in Estimating Time

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brooks Anderson
Larry Burd
John Dodd
Katharin Kelker
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 19, no. 3, May 1980, pp. [1-4]
Description
Study in Montana assesses whether adolescents living on reservations estimate time the same as their non-Aboriginal counterparts.
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Conceptualizing School Belongingness in Native Youth: Factor Analysis of the Psychological Sense of School Membership Scale

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shadab Fatima Hussain
Benjamin W. Domingue
Teresa LaFromboise
Nidia Ruedas-Gracia
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 25, no. 3, 2018, pp. 26-51
Description
Study uses scale to assess the feeling of belonging (or lack thereof) experienced by two groups of American Indian students, and test its validity for use with this specific population. Further analysis examines how a sense of belonging might act as a protective factor against health and education disparities.
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Counseling for Socially Withdrawn Indian Girls

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert L. Armstrong
Barbara Holmes
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 10, no. 2, January 1971, pp. [4-7]
Description
Study in 1968/69 at Phoenix Indian High School by Arizona State University that looks at socially withdrawn female students and the significance of group counselling.
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Crow-Northern Cheyenne Selected for Study

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas G. Kennedy
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 11, no. 1, October 1971, pp. [27-31]
Description
Examines stereotypes and personality traits, such as humble vs assertive or placid vs apprehensive.
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Cultural Differences in Processing Information

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret Cattey
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 20, no. 1, October 1980, pp. [23-29]
Description
Study compares the Navajo tribe and Chinese populations' way of learning to that of Euro-American culture.
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Cultural Differences, Nonverbal Regulation, and Classroom Interaction: Sociolinguistic Interference in American Indian Education

Alternate Title
The Transcultural Education of American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Teachers and Students in Transaction
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul E. Greenbaum
Susan D. Greenbaum
Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 61, no. 1, The Transcultural Education of American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Teachers and Students ..., Autumn, 1983, pp. 16-33
Description
Looks at differences in nonverbal classroom interactions and resulting obstructions in communication and performance.
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