COALTON\u2014\u00a0In the spring of 1960, 440,000 high school students in 1,353 schools across the country took part in a “Project Talent” study.\u00a0At that time Coalton had a High School known as “Coalton Local High School” and the\u00a0entire\u00a0school of 105\u00a0students\u00a0took part in the study.<\/p>\n
Now, 53 years after the landmark Project Talent study was first administered, researchers are seeking the classes 1960-63 from Coalton Local High School to discover what became of the students lives.<\/p>\n
In 1960, Project Talent assessed the aptitudes and abilities, hopes and expectations of 440,000 high school students from across America. The study was conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the United States Office of Education.<\/p>\n
Over a two days period, students were administered surveys that assessed their knowledge, aptitudes, and abilities and probed their backgrounds, family lives, interests, expectations, aspirations, and personality traits.<\/p>\n
This study was the first scientifically planned national inventory of human talents and the largest and most comprehensive study of high school students ever conducted in the Unites States. The project was funded by US Office of Education and undertaken jointly by the American Institutes for Research and the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Project Talent captured the hopes,\u00a0dreams, and concerns of a generation\u00a0of young Americans that witnessed\u00a0sweeping social, political,\u00a0technological change. Follow-up\u00a0studies were conducted at 1, 5, and\u00a011 years after high school, resulting in\u00a0findings ranging from the factors, both\u00a0within and beyond the school system,\u00a0that influence students\u2019 educational\u00a0attainment, the impact of the Vietnam\u00a0experience, and the changing role of\u00a0women throughout the 1960\u2019s and 70\u2019s. Project Talent has informed over 450 government reports, academic articles, and scholarly books.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Project Talent generation is very important in the history of this country,\u201d says Sabine Horner, Project Talent\u2019s Director of Outreach and Communications. \u201cThey came of age during an era of great upheaval and they transformed the United States as we knew it. Project Talent is an opportunity to share their perspectives and experiences in a meaningful way that can benefit future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today, Project Talent is the only large-scale, nationally representative study that has tracked participants from adolescence to retirement age. This enables researchers to study how experiences, abilities, interests, and personality types demonstrated early in life impact the health and wellbeing of individuals as they age. Researchers hope to discover patterns that indicate why some people continue to thrive mentally, physically, and financially throughout their lives while others are challenged in these areas.<\/p>\n
Members of the classes of 1960-1963 from Coalton Local High School are asked to contact Project Talent to register their interest and provide details of where they can be contacted to receive further information. They are also interested in any information that can be provided about the whereabouts of other classmates.<\/p>\n
Participants can call the project on 1 (866) 770-6077, send an email to projecttalent50@air.org or visit the Project Talent website at www.projecttalent.org.<\/p>\n
via National Study Searching for Coalton Local High School Classes of 1960-1963 – The Jackson County Times-Journal: News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COALTON\u2014\u00a0In the spring of 1960, 440,000 high school students in 1,353 schools across the country took part in a “Project Talent” study.\u00a0At that time Coalton had a High School known as “Coalton Local High School” and the\u00a0entire\u00a0school of 105\u00a0students\u00a0took part in the study. Now, 53 years after the landmark Project Talent study was first administered,\u2026 Read More: National Study Searching for Coalton Local High School Classes of\u2026 »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jackson-county-events","category-jackson-county-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksoncountyohiogen.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}