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Fadale, LaVerna M.; Winter, Gene M. – Career Education Quarterly, 1978
Describes research project efforts in developmental studies programs for nontraditional students in New York two-year colleges and also identifies characteristics of occupational educational students enrolled in these programs who can be classified as successful. Student inventories indicated that personal value factors were important in academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Development, Developmental Programs, Educational Research
Silver, Jane H. – 1978
This study attempted to determine the effect of a self-development seminar on the learning of 27 randomly selected college freshmen as measured by grade point averages (GPA), academic units completed, and retention rate (the percentage of students returning for a second term) for one semester beginning fall 1977. Both experimental and control…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Community Colleges, Courses
Portes, Pedro R.; And Others – 1984
Fifty-four middle and lower class, black and white adolescents were observed interacting with their mothers during a discussion of seven child rearing problems. Maternal references to a range of disciplinary measures were identified, analyzed, and related to the subjects' scholastic performances. A factor analysis of process measures confirmed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Blacks, Child Rearing
