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Download full textTsai, Yung-mei; Perry, Floyd, Jr. – 1975
The study's purpose was to: (1) identify factors affecting college students' academic performance measured by college grade point average (GPA) and persistence identified by whether or not withdrawn from the university initially attended; and (2) compare these factors among Black, Mexican American, and Anglo students. Data were obtained from the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, Black Students, College Students
Peer reviewedReschly, Daniel J.; Reschly, Jane E. – Journal of School Psychology, 1979
The predictive validity of WISC-R factor scores was examined with samples from the four sociocultural groups of Anglo, Black, Chicano, and native American Papago. The full scale IQ and verbal comprehension (VC) factor scores were significantly better predictors of achievement as measured by teacher ratings and the Metropolitan Achievement Test.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Anglo Americans, Black Students
Peer reviewedKnight, George P.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1982
The relative influence of cooperative-competitive social orientation on school achievement for Anglo-American and Mexican-American children was assessed. The importance of competitiveness for Anglo-American children and the moderate relationship of other personality variables to achievement in both groups is shown. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, Cognitive Style, Competition
Peer reviewedWorrell, Frank C. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2002
A study involving 233 academically talented adolescents investigated ethnic group differences in self-concept and the contribution of domain-specific self-concept to global self-concept. White students had significantly higher scholastic and job self-concepts than Asian American students, and physical self-concept was a substantive contributor to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Adolescents, Anglo Americans
Matuszek, Paula; Haskin, Christine – 1978
The relationships of various different variables which had been used to define socio-economic status (SES) to achievement for second- and fifth-grade students were examined. Interviews were conducted with 533 parents across the Austin Independent School District to obtain information on job status, age, income, education, attitude toward…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, Black Students, Community Surveys
Zarate, Narcisa – 1976
Factors which relate to academic success for university freshmen were investigated. Objectives were to: determine which of six independent variables were most highly related to and predictive of a 2.0 (C) cumulative grade point average (GPA), the dependent variable, for two consecutive quarters; determine which combination of factors could most…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anglo Americans, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen
