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Peer reviewedElmore, Patricia B.; Vasu, Ellen Storey – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1986
A number of measures were examined as predictors of graduate students' achievement in inferential statistics courses. The most important predictor variable set was attitudes toward feminist issues. Other predictors included mathematics attitude and masculinity-femininity. Sex-related differences were found on all variables except verbal and…
Descriptors: Feminism, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Mathematics Achievement
Download full textByers, Joe L. – 1984
Two recent studies imply that there is a negative selection process at work which systematically attracts and then holds in the teaching profession young people with modest verbal and quantitative abilities. The Vance & Schlecty study compared "recruits"--those who had: (1) majored in education; (2) taught school; or (3) obtained a certificate to…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Career Choice, Higher Education, Predictor Variables
Peer reviewedHogrebe, Mark C.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1985
The following potential predictors of first quarter college grade point average were examined: student perception of their preparation for college work; attitudes toward the university and the developmental studies program: belief that developmental programs predict achievement; high schools grade point average; and Scholastic Aptitude Test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Developmental Studies Programs, Grade Point Average
Marsh, Herbert W. – 1978
To determine the relationship between 16 background variables and students' evaluations of instruction, a questionnaire was completed in 511 undergraduate courses at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Student variables, including grade point average, class size, expected grade, and prior subject interest, rarely explained 10% of…
Descriptors: Bias, College Faculty, Correlation, Course Evaluation
Mazzuca, Steven A.; Feldhusen, John F. – 1979
A theory, which proposed a hierarchy of determinants of student ratings of instruction, was tested. Situational variables such as class size, elective enrollment, and grade expectancy were hypothesized to be only indicators of more potent determiners. These motivational constructs were diversity of enrollment motives and subject matter interests,…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Class Size, Course Evaluation, Critical Path Method
McKee, Barbara G. – 1978
An attitude rating scale and instructional assessment survey were administered in 62 classes at the State University of New York at Cortland to examine the relationship between student ratings of instruction and students' course-oriented attitudes. The Adjective Rating Scale (ARS) was designed to measure course and program-oriented attitudes, and…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Students, Course Content, Course Evaluation
