Examines the relationship between the total number of absences from a single community college class in fall 1985 and four measures of academic achievement (i.e., cumulative grade point average, ratio of courses passed to courses attempted, graduation, and course withdrawals) obtained three years later. (DMM)

Examines changes in the academic self-concept of community college students from the City Colleges of Chicago who experienced success or failure according to their own success criteria. Over 16 weeks, students who met or surpassed their expectations showed increased academic self-concept and higher standards of success. (DMM)

Reports on a study to determine the effect of immediate feedback of test results on the retention of information by students enrolled in an introductory psychology course. Reveals no difference between the retention of students who used a self-scoring answer sheet and those who did not. (DMM)

Examines the relationships between selected student characteristics and measures of perceived campus and support service satisfaction of disabled students enrolled in three Missouri community colleges. Reveals that students' satisfaction with the college in general was correlated with their use of specific campus services. (DMM)

Describes the development and pilot testing of a measuring instrument specifically designed to deal with psychological and/or sociological facts about aging, based primarily on original and revised items from the Facts on Aging Quiz. Presents the results of the instrument's administration in seven community college introductory psychology classes.…

Describes a study of factors related to student attrition at the University of Akron's General College and Community and Technical College. Analyzes data on persisters/nonpersisters, males/females, and traditional/nontraditional students with respect to major, full-/part-time status, time of attendance, goals, and satisfaction with the college.…

Reports on a study of 513 developmental mathematics students in eight Illinois community colleges, which revealed that numerical skills, instructional method, age, self-assessment of knowledge of mathematics, and attitude toward mathematics were determinants of success or failure in remedial math courses. (AYC)

Discusses a study conducted at Wilson County Technical College, North Carolina, to assess the study habits and skills of 74 students enrolled in basic science courses in 1987. Student responses to the Study Behavior Inventory-Form D suggest that students had difficulty with time management and keeping up-to-date with assignments. (DMM)

Presents results of a preliminary evaluation of an accounting telecourse offered by the Collin County Community College District (CCCCD), Texas, comparing: (1) CCCCD's telecourse students with those of other colleges; (2) CCCCD's accounting telecourse students with CCCCD's other telecourse students; and (3) CCCCD's telecourse accounting students…

Discusses a study during which the Myers Briggs Type Indicator was administered to 275 beginning economics students at Northern Virginia Community College to assess students' learning style. Concludes that most students had a learning style that was least accommodated by the typical instructional format found in economics classes. (LAL)

Reviews the results of a five-year longitudinal examination of a cohort group of 3,159 students' community college attendance. Approximately 30 percent of the students attended one semester, 50 percent attended intermittently, and 13 percent obtained credentials. Demographic variables did not produce significant differences. (DMM)

Describes a study which examined the impact of counselors' clothing on community college students' willingness to discuss personal, academic, and vocational concerns and explored the effectiveness of attire in conveying empathy, warmth, genuineness, and concreteness. Attire appeared to affect students' willingness to discuss their concerns. (AYC)

Uses data from a southern technical college to assess influences on student achievement. Indicates that high school diploma type, gender, race, absences, performance expectations, and entrance exam scores were good predictors of initial achievement. Second-semester achievement was predicted by working hours, gender, diploma type, initial…

Describes a study of the attitudes of adult females enrolled in allied health curricula at Wilson Technical Community College towards computers, which found only a moderate degree of computer anxiety among the 62 subjects and a relationship between the completion of a computer literacy class and positive attitudes toward microcomputers. (DMM)

Describes a study using two open-ended, in-class surveys to determine the reasons students gave for missing social science classes. The five most important reasons given were "I was sick,""I needed to prepare for a test/assignment in another class,""I was tired/sleepy," and "I overslept." (DMM)