This study demonstrates the reliability of holistic reading for student essays. It was found that the Test of Standard Written English correlates to a greater degree with the holistic reading scores than it does with teacher-assigned grades. (Author)

The degree of satisfaction with both academic and nonacademic facets of college life is an important variable in determining the attitudes of college students toward both their present and future goal attainment. One of the major developmental trends during the college years was a significant increase in goal-directedness. (Author)

This study considered the relationship of the AACH Scale of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) to the attrition of a sample of college students from one institution. Results indicate that AACH scores accumulated over a five year period did not differentiate between college students who later graduated and those who did not. (Author)

The purpose of the study was to compare predictions of freshmen through senior year grades for black and white students by sex for new freshmen who entered on university in fall 1968 and 1969. Results showed that different patterns of prediction for different race/sex subgroups emerged. (Author)

The predictive validity of the American College Test (ACT) for two classes totaling 2,289 students was investigated at successive intervals over four years of college. Correlational coefficients and expectancy tables substantiated the validity of the ACT for prediction of GPA, for progress, and for graduation within four years. (Author)

The Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory profiles for female and male pharmacy students were compared. Female and male students obtained similar interest patterns when separate norms for men and women were used. (Author)

Male freshmen entering the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, during the fall semester 1969 were administered the SVIB and Minnesota Counseling Inventory. The resulting data were compared to college students not majoring in engineering. (Author)

Reports a study in which 63 students took part in a 12-week study to see which treatments were more successful when working with high-risk freshmen. The most effective curriculum for high-risk students included group counseling, study skills instruction, and individual internal/external locus of control counseling. (Author)

The Omnibus Personality Inventory and the Student Orientations Survey were administered to undergraduates at three institutions and substantial correlations between various scales of these two inventories were obtained. On the whole, students' educational attitudes were consonant with their general personality characteristics and orientations.…

The writing samples of high school and college students were scored using objective indices. The relationships between these indices and the scores earned on a standarized English test were determined. The results support the contention that a standarized test could identify college students who have difficulty writing. (Author)

Graduating seniors in the School of Business who were in either accounting, marketing, or behavioral studies and were seeking a career consistent with their area's concentration were compared for their scores on the Self-Directed Search. The accounting group was consistently differentiated from the other group. (Author)

The SVIB was administered to the entire freshperson class at a midwestern college for women. Results showed leaders responded "like" to about 90 percent of the scale items, whereas nonleaders responded "like" to only about 10 percent. The scale is designed to assist counselors in aiding women to plan their extracurricular…

Resolutions of the 1970 national convention platform of the National Organization for Women were paraphrased to form items for the nine subscales of the Attitudes Toward Feminist Issues Scale (ATFI Scale). Students' subscale scores and total scores were submitted to a three-factor analysis of variance. Results are discussed. (Author)

Compared with high-test anxious students, those with low scores on both scales of the Achievement Anxiety Test were less anxious before a test, studied less for it, and got more sleep the night before. The pattern of results was congruent with expectations. (Author)

This study investigated the internal structure of the Ohio Work Values Inventory (OWVI) when used with college-age students. A factor analysis with oblique rotation was performed. Results indicate that the inventory may be used with technical college students. (Author)