TO ISOLATE FACTORS RELATED TO EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING, DATA WAS OBTAINED ON ALL TWELFTH, EIGHTH, AND FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS IN THE SPOKANE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. ANALYZED WERE--(1) PERSONAL VARIABLES WITHIN THE SCHOOL SITUATION IN THE TWELFTH GRADE, (2) FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH DROPOUTS IN THE EIGHTH GRADE, AND (3) CHARACTERISTICS OF FOURTH GRADE PUPILS IN…

Many community colleges have a need for a mathematics placement test which tests achievement for initial placement in the different levels of mathematics classes. Merrit College investigated this need by examining the scores of all the entering students who did not complete the mathematics section of the School and College Ability Test which they…

The Cooperative School and College Ability Test was administered to 10 black and 10 white in the seventh and eighth grades at an inner-city school in Rochester, New York using either a manual or a computerized procedure, in order to determine if black performance improves in a computerized testing environment. (JM)

A computer program was developed to compute the average Cooperative Reading Test-Total (COOP-T) scores, and the average School and College Ability Test-Total (SCAT-T) scores for students who took either one or both of these aptitude tests and enrolled at Santa Ana College (SAC) between 1969 and 1974. The averages were computed as a mean of the…

IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE RELATION BETWEEN SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE AND THE CHOICE OF TEACHING OR NONTEACHING COLLEGE PROGRAMS, A STUDY WAS MADE OF A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES IN 1963, ENROLLED AS COLLEGE FRESHMEN. OF 1,960 SUCH PERSONS IN THE SAMPLE, 1184 (60 PERCENT) RESPONDED TO THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT THEY…

The correlation was examined between the Officer Selection Battery (OSB) and the five areas of evaluation comprising the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Basic Camp Student Evaluation Report: physical fitness, graded military skills, job performance, peer rating, and academic potential and grades. The moderating effect of the…

TO DETERMINE WHETHER ARBITRARY GRADE-POINT AVERAGE CUT-OFF POINTS (E.G. 2.25) FOR ENTRANCE INTO TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE UNFAIR TO PRESENT-DAY STUDENTS, NINETY 1966 COLLEGE SOPHOMORES WITH FRESHMAN-YEAR GPA'S BETWEEN 2.00 AND 2.09 WERE COMPARED TO THE SAME NUMBER OF 1961 SOPHOMORES WITH FRESHMAN-YEAR GPA'S BETWEEN 2.25 AND 2.34 USING (1)…

Methodologies were proposed for combining background and aptitude and/or achievement information in an approach to the classification problem using the concept of under- and overachievement. The methodologies were applied to independent samples from four high school curricula. The results suggest that when past achievement and/or aptitudes were…

THIS STUDY SOUGHT (1) TO CLARIFY THE TERM "LANGUAGE APTITUDE," (2) TO BETTER DEFINE ITS RELATIONSHIP TO INTELLIGENCE, AND (3) TO DETERMINE THE ROLE OF SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL IN THIS RELATIONSHIP. SUBJECTS WERE SIXTH-GRADE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS, 93 OF WHOM WERE MIDDLE CLASS AND 39 LOWER CLASS. SOCIAL CLASS WAS DETERMINED BY THE OTIS DUDLEY…

This work is a further validation of the findings of an earlier study of the development of a listening test to identify educational potential of disadvantaged Negro junior high school boys. The present study also sought to determine if the experimental boy's listening test (BoLT) is applicable to other ethnic and income level groups. The Bolt, a…

A model for educational supervisors which attempts to link management theory to learning is demonstrated. With teachers today having greater autonomy in selecting appropriate content and methods, supervisors should focus on two tasks: they should become more involved with teachers in selecting goals and become more adept in monitoring the…