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Harnisch, Delwyn L. – 1985
Data from the High School and Beyond study--restricted to over 800 regular public school students from a population of 18,684 who completed test batteries in both their sophomore and senior years--are analyzed in this report. Included in the cluster of 12 school variables are school policies, school resources, and school practices. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competency Based Education, Educational Environment, High Schools
Download full textBenedict, Joseph H., Jr. – Bulletin of the Association of College Unions International, 1984
Future societal trends and implications for the college union and student activities profession are considered. Ten major trends identified by John Naisbitt in his recent book "Megatrends" are used as focal points. Attention is directed to shifts from: an industrial society to an information society; forced technology to high tech/high touch; a…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Decentralization, Extracurricular Activities, Futures (of Society)
Lundy, Harold W. – 1984
The development of a planning/budgeting model as an integral component of a decision support system is described. The case study approach is used to describe how Grambling State University (GSU) developed the model to improve its financial planning and budgeting processes. The model can be used for tactical and/or strategic planning. The model is…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Credits, College Planning, Decision Making
Rogers, Brenda H. – 1984
The validity of William Sedlacek's Non-Cognitive Questionnaire (NCQ) for predicting college grade point average (GPA) of black freshmen was studied with 259 black freshmen at North Carolina State University. The relationship of the 24 NCQ items to their first-year GPA was examined through regression analyses. In the past the regression model on…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Aptitude Tests, Black Students, College Admission
Weislogel, Louis F. – 1977
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of various types of living accommodations on the academic performance of college freshmen at West Chester State College (Pennsylvania). Three types of housing were defined: single-sex dormitories, coeducational dormitories, and commuter living accommodations. The association of housing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Policy, Coeducation, College Freshmen
Health Resources Administration (DHEW/PHS), Bethesda, MD. Div. of Medicine. – 1977
Inequities of access to health care and service provisions are considered to be major problems by health policy-makers today. These inequities result from disparities in physician distribution by specialty and geography that are concealed by aggregate analyses of physician supply. This paper describes what is presently known about physician supply…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Health Education, Health Occupations, Health Personnel
Bean, John P. – 1981
A causal model to explain student attrition was tested at a major midwestern land-grant university with a sample of 1,513 full-time, unmarried freshmen who were 21 years old or younger. The causal model was reduced from 23 to 10 variables: an intent variable, three attitudinal variables, and two each of organizational, personal, and environmental…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, College Environment, College Freshmen, Decision Making
Richter, Winston – 1978
Concern for the education of whole persons is not new in American higher education, but recent authors have expressed a new urgency for a return to a common core curriculum for general education. One model can be seen in the Miami-Dade General Education program, another in the human-value-orientation of Walter Lippincott, which is particularly…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Futures (of Society)
Law School Admission Council, Princeton, NJ. – 1976
Thirty-eight research reports and summaries of projects studying law school admission and the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) are presented. These research projects were supported by the Law School Admission Council between 1949 and 1969. A subject and an author index, for this and the following volume, covering 1970-1974, are also provided. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Grade Prediction, Graduate Study
BARBER, MAX; BEIGHLEY, K.C. – 1960
TO DETERMINE HOW EFFECTIVELY THE COOPERATIVE ENGLISH TEST PREDICTS STUDENT SUCCESS IN FRESHMAN ENGLISH AT STOCKTON COLLEGE, THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED (1) TO OBTAIN STATISTICAL COMPARISONS BETWEEN FINAL SEMESTER GRADES OF A SAMPLE OF THE COLLEGE TRANSFER POPULATION WITH THE WHOLE TEST AND EACH OF ITS PARTS, (2) TO ANALYZE BY PERCENTAGES THE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Curriculum Research, Educational Testing
Madras, S.; And Others – 1978
Utilizing a computerized model, this paper presents a five-year financial plan for the board of education in North York (Ontario). The model assumes that the present organizational structure and policies of the board will continue and that a zero inflation rate will prevail for the next five years. It assesses financial implications for the future…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education
Foster, Carl G.; And Others – 1980
Three position papers present future implications for educators concerning adherence to P.L. 95-561. "Reservation Education: A Brief Prediction" encourages the active incorporation of the law's certification components in order to augment administrative tenure and promote worth. Teachers are urged to willingly comply with new Bureau of…
Descriptors: Accountability, American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians
Bauer, Roger; And Others – 1968
Since the need for good programers exists and will increase, their identification before training is desirable. Until now only single tests of potential ability have been evaluated. In this study several tests used in various combinations were evaluated as test batteries. The IBM Aptitude Test for Programmer Personnel (ATPP) and the Strong…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Tests
Ziegler, Warren L.; Healy, Grace M. – 1977
Written materials analyzed in this paper were gathered from work with faculty, students, and administration within higher/postsecondary institutions in inventing the future of education. A wide range of alternative futures is discussed which has emerged from this work, conducted in graduate seminars in short and long term social action research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Decision Making, Educational Development
Manning, Brad A. – 1973
The Trouble Shooting Checklist-B (TSC-B) is a predictive instrument to aid the educational change agent in defining variables within institutions or organizations which are concerned with adopting a psychological assessment battery with some form of personal counseling orientation in deciding whether or not an institution is suited for a…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Change Strategies
