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Holloway, Richard L. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1978
The subjects consisted of high and average ability high school students. Half selected their own task and half were assigned to a task based on their scores on Rotters's locus of control scale. Across all subjects, ability was found to be the only significant predictor of recall. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Assignments, College Bound Students
Carlson, Constance Hedin – 1968
Thirty-seven secondary and four college English teachers in Maine participated in research on a two-fold problem: late adolescents' indifference to writing and their typically superficial themes. The secondary teachers planned 12th-grade writing sequences integrating the study of composition and literature and relating it to problems of immediate…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Preparation, College School Cooperation, Educational Research