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Cela-Ranilla, Jose Maria; Gisbert, Merce; de Oliveira, Janaina Minelli – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2011
Providing information about how 1st-year students learn may help colleges plan actions aimed at increasing students' persistence in higher education programs. This research aims to assess 1st-year students' academic performance, using a path analysis to establish inter-correlations among students' personality traits, learning patterns, high school…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Personality, Path Analysis
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White, Richard T.; Gagne, Robert M. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1978
A correspondence exists between a simplified data collection method employing results from a post test for graphic skills in kinematics, and a rigourous validation method. Examination of test responses for discrepant instances yielded further information of value. Hierarchical patterns of learning and remembering are identical. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, High Schools