A study was conducted to compare the reading levels of beginning students in a two-year community college with the readability levels of the materials they are required to read in selected courses. Subjects, all the students enrolled at an open door community college in Tampa (Florida), took the Nelson-Denny Reading test. Readability levels of…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether performance on Piagetian seriation tasks discriminated better than sequencing tasks between learning disabled and normal six-, seven-, and eight-year-old students. In addition, both techniques were examined with regard to prediction of academic achievement and differentiation between age levels…

This is one of a series of reports on the National Longitudinal Study of Mathematical Abilities. These volumes contain most of the test batteries which were administered to students who were seventh graders at the start of the study in the Fall of 1962. These students comprised the Y-Population. For the most part, the tests have been reproduced…

To ascertain if there are any significant differences between the University of Kentucky's main campus and its community colleges in respect to (1) the academic caliber of the students, (2) grading standards in freshman composition, (3) the course of study, and (4) the quality of instruction, data were gathered from student records and a…

Test performance statistics and subsequent academic achievement data for Los Angeles City College (LACC), California, students entering in the fall of 1969 are reported in this study. The test performance statistics provide a relative comparison between achievement on the School and College Ability Test (SCAT), the Form 1A Reading Comprehension:…

A study of teacher perceptions of student ability as related to first grade reading achievement examined the notions that teacher expectancy does affect the performance of pupils and that teacher expectations are influenced by the sex of the pupil. Female first grade teachers (N=11) in a suburban school provided estimates of the IQ (MIQ) of each…

Evidence presented in this paper indicates the existence of both general intellectual potential and differential abilities of Eskimo and Indian-Metis pupils in contrast to White classmates. A factor analytic technique is described which was used to treat data obtained from a sample of more than 1,800 students. One conclusion of the study is that a…

The purpose of this study was to relate the factor structure of naval air training measures to the performance of Marine pilots in operational squadrons. Five post-training criteria were developed; four were Commanding Officer (C.O.) nominations of junior officers for hypothetical special assignments, and the fifth was a general…

The majority of students entering Macomb County Community College enroll in the liberal arts curriculum with the intention of earning college credits and transferring to a 4-year institution. But many of these freshmen are "latent terminal" students with poor to average high school grades and low SCAT or ACT scores who fail in their chosen…

Some people are endowed with advantages which allow them to make full use of educational opportunities. Others, for one reason or another, become high-risk students with limited educational possibilities. Almost all students at some period of time are appropriately identified in the "high risk" category. A more effective method than those…

Over a four year period, the Continuation Education System Development Project will develop a practical instructional system capable of continuous identification and efficient response to the critical instructional needs of individual continuation high school students, or those who drop out or are pushed out, in La Puente, California. The first…

Reported is a study of the relationships between concrete and formal operational science subject matter and the intellectual level of the learner. During the last month of instruction in the academic year, 51 biology students, 54 chemistry students, and 33 physics students were interviewed with four Piagetian tasks: Conservation of Weight,…

The primary purpose of the investigation was to determine if any attitudinal change toward science occurs in college freshmen during enrollment in selected introductory science courses. Relationships were also sought between: (1) scientific attitude on entering college, (2) enrollment in a course or in no science course, (3) sex of students, and…

This is the second report in a series investigating the educational attainment of "atypical" or "new" types of students. In this report, the educational experiences and progress of undergraduate students who were not high achievers in secondary school will be compared with the experiences and progress of those who were. One of the purposes of this…

The purpose of this study was to determine if students having a laboratory-oriented science course at the ninth grade level demonstrate a different rate of development of certain psychomotor abilities than do students not having such a course. The three abilities tested for were: (1) motor coordination, (2) manual dexterity, and (3) finger…