Using data from a nationwide longitudinal study of student attendance patterns in higher education, this study compared the responses of community college students who discontinued their enrollment during their initial semester with those of community college students who persisted for two years. Data for the analysis and comparison were opinion,…

The relationship between achievement and method of individualized instruction and testing was investigated using a class of 32 community college students. Construction of the mastery tests was described. For the class as a whole, students in a mastery-by-module group had slightly, but not significantly, higher scores than students in a…