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Freedman, Aviva; Pringle, Ian – 1979
An exploratory study was conducted to define broadly some indices of student writing development. Student essays prepared by high school seniors and third-year university students outside the classroom were collected for analysis. The essays were drawn from four disciplines--English literature, history, geography, and biology--and represented the…
Descriptors: College Students, High School Seniors, Higher Education, Literary Styles
Perl, Harold I. – 1981
The examination of the functioning of social networks has been used to understand how individual and environmental characteristics can mediate the availability of social support. To examine the relationship between personal attributes, psychosocial environmental attributes, and the interaction between these variables, 92 entering college freshmen…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Freshmen, Dormitories, Group Experience
Cooper, Stewart E.; And Others – 1983
Career development theories provide useful ideas for understanding career indecision, but neglect of a measurement of career indecisiveness has caused confusion. To examine the relationship between trait indecisiveness, vocational uncertainty, and interpersonal characteristics, 325 freshmen students were tested with a Trait Indecisiveness Scale…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Career Choice, College Freshmen, Decision Making Skills
Wood, Peter H. – 1988
The relationships typically existing between scores on reading tests and college grades are described. The four purposes are to: present some of the typical relationships between reading ability and college success; report upon some of the evidence supporting other possible predictors of college success; describe some of the problems associated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Students, Grades (Scholastic)
Linder, Fredric – 1981
Assessing the self-esteem of students may be one way to evaluate the effectiveness of educational programs. To study the impact of an art-based program, middle and high school students completed the Self Esteem Inventory as well as intelligence and achievement measures. Results showed that self-esteem mean scores (both pre and post) were well…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Evaluation Methods
Fischer, Norman M. – 1995
The long-term effects of undergraduate involvement on advanced degree attainment and career choice were studied. The longitudinal study involved 299 freshmen who entered college between 1973 and 1976 and participated in the institutional research program's followup questionnaire 17-20 years later. Astin's Input-Environment Outcomes model and…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Career Choice, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Attainment
Austin, J. Sue; Martin, Nancy K. – 1990
The effects of several variables on social, emotional, and academic development of high school students were evaluated. Variables were: (1) educational level of parents; (2) marital status of parents; (3) number of children in the family; and (4) family stability. Subjects were 52 10th-grade college-preparatory students from a southern public high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, College Bound Students
Cash, R. William; Bissel, H. LeVerne – 1985
The applicability of Tinto's model of retention for first-year students attending church-related colleges and universities is examined. Data collected from entering freshmen at two Midwestern Seventh-day Adventist colleges were used to replicate studies of Tinto's model done in other settings. Based on Tinto's model, indicators of academic and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Church Related Colleges, College Freshmen
Yang, Faxian – 2000
This study predicted student achievement based on need for developmental study, investigating different students' types of censoring; variables influencing student achievement; and whether developmental study was appropriate for realizing student achievement. Participants were 403 community college students. Achievers were students who within four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs
Luo, Jiali; Jamieson-Drake, David – Online Submission, 2004
Using a typological schema derived from freshman survey data and other empirical measures, this study examines the link between students' traits upon entry to college and their college development outcomes in various areas as measured at the exit point. The findings indicate the typological schema is predictive of student outcomes in terms of…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Institutional Mission, Student Characteristics, Student Development
Kuh, George D.; Vesper, Nick – 1991
Using a sample of 738 students from 4 metropolitan universities--University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Louisville (Kentucky), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Wichita State University (Kansas), data from Pace's College Student Experience Questionnaire, and a modified form of Pascarella's general causal model, a study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Environment, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Lorentz, Jeffrey L.; Coker, Homer – 1979
As part of the Competency Based Teacher Certification Project in Carroll County, Georgia, large samples of elementary and secondary school teachers and students were observed during a two-year period. Four low-inference observation measures were used to record teacher behaviors and student-teacher interactions: (1) Teacher Practices Observation…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
Dumont, Richard G.; Troelstrup, Richard L. – 1980
Use of the American College Testing (ACT) Program assessment battery for the measurement of student growth at a regional state university is described. A stratified random sample of 112 seniors at Tennessee Technological University was given the residual form of the ACT Assessment battery for comparison with their pre-college ACT test performance.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, College Seniors
Siegel, Donna Farrell – 1989
A model was developed to relate home, school, and extracurricular experiences (from preschool through high school) to the reading achievement of high school seniors. Variables representing each of these factors were measured using "The Reading Biographer," an instrument that had been evaluated in a national follow-up study of 3,959 high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Early Experience, Educational Experience