This study sought to identify: (1) specific developmental skills or patterns of skills which contributed significantly to success and nonsuccess in reading and arithmetic, and (2) relationships of excellent, good, and average achievers in reading and arithmetic to success in other aspects of achievement. A complete assessment battery (ITPA, PPVT…

Study supported by United States Public Health Service grant MH-13509

Demonstrates how information in the cumulative school file is a rich resource for understanding the patterns of achievement and underachievement among gifted students. High and moderative achievers and moderate and extreme underachievers (n=153) were compared on information found in the school file. Results show differences between achievers and…

Expectancies, performance, perceived ability, and causal attributions of males and females who were involved in competitive motor tasks after being matched with an opponent of similiar ability were studied. Results are discussed. (Author/DF)

Research dealing with achievement score differences between sexes on a high school mathematics test. Evidence provided by the Annual High School Mathematics Competition showed boys were the high achievers in the 1960's, but that girls tend to be improving. (JG)

Primarily a longitudinal and quantitative analysis of achievement functioning, this experiment sought to identify factors which promote or impair the learning of individual children. The 683 Junior High students were divided into one of eight groups according to sex, race and whether their seventh grade Iowa Test of Basic Skills Composite score…

Hypothesis that differences in performance between extreme anxiety groups may be due to differences in ability was confirmed in two studies using analysis of convariance. Study habits do make a contribution to achievement independent of ability. (Author)

Although a large body of research has investigated the possibility of motivational or attitudinal differences in men and women that would explain observable differences in levels of achievement, much of this research has failed to produce results. The failure of researchers to consider the characteristics of their college-student samples may have…

Black men and women get lower status jobs than their white counterparts. Analysis of data from the 1967 National Longitudinal Survey of Work Experience of Women 30-44 Years of Age and the 1962 Occupational Changes in a Generation Survey demonstrates that lower social origins and educational attainments are insufficient explanations of blacks'…

PROBLEMS RELATED TO SEX DIFFERENCES IN ACHIEVEMENT AMONG ABLE HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH WERE STUDIED--(1) THE LACK OF CORRELATION BETWEEN A MEASURE OF ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION AND ACTUAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT AMONG GIRLS, AND (2) THE RELATIVELY DIFFERENT EFFECT OF CERTAIN PARENTAL ATTITUDES ON THE ACHIEVEMENT BEHAVIOR OF BOYS AND GIRLS. THE SUBJECTS USED WERE…

Extending the work of Crandall (1969), this study tested the hypotheses of sex differences in interpretation of past academic performance and expectations of future achievement. Subjects were 225 freshman women and 194 freshman men (93 percent of the freshmen class) at a highly selective midwestern liberal arts college: they did not differ in past…

Research partially supported by grant MH-13470-01 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Reports results of a study which examined predictors of music achievement for general music students in the upper elementary grades. Predictors examined were attitude toward music, self-concept in music, music background, academic achievement, and gender. (RM)