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Download full textKessler, Ronald P. – 1987
In 1986, a study was conducted by the Rancho Santiago Community College District (RSCCD) to evaluate the relationship between reading placement scores and classroom performance. The study sample consisted of students from fall 1985, spring 1986, and fall 1986 who had been tested using the College Board Assessment and Placement Test upon…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Discriminant Analysis, Grades (Scholastic)
Hanson, Bradley A.; Bay, Luz; Loomis, Susan Cooper – 1998
Research studies using booklet classification were implemented by the American College Testing Program to investigate the linkage between the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Achievement Levels Descriptions and the cutpoints set to represent student performance with respect to the achievement levels. This paper describes the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classification, Cutting Scores, Discriminant Analysis
Lueck, Lowell A.; Gilbert, Charles C., III – 1978
The relationship between attrition and choice of major was studied at Western Illinois University. A secondary purpose was to determine whether measures of accademic ability, as well as curricular choice, will provide a basis for determining if attrition is likely to occur. Entering freshmen in the summer and fall terms of 1974, 1975, and 1976…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attrition (Research Studies), College Students, Courses
