The purpose of this study was (1) to discover if the students identified as academically able by their high school counselors and/or other professionals were academically qualified for post-secondary education, and (2) to provide heretofore unavailable data to those who are associated with and seek to help the disadvantaged students.…

A review of the literature indicates that although some authors maintain that scholastic aptitude test scores of disadvantaged students are not clearly associated with college grades (Clark and Plotkin, 1963), most researchers have found the opposite to be true. Some selective institutions emphasize the disadvantaged student's persistence, rather…

Each of the 3 basic units--elementary, secondary, college--of the American educational system was originally intended to be terminal. The knowledge explosion and growing demands of technological society, however, have made graduate and higher professional education necessary for increasing numbers of citizens. As a result, the nation is deprived…

The determination of whether school social status is independently associated with college aspirations among a sample of white high school seniors was the purpose of this study. The sample was composed of 6,127 white 1967 graduating seniors in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area high schools. College aspirations were measured in terms of college…

This is an evaluation of the College Bound Program (1969-70), which attempts to upgrade on a massive level the academic performance of disadvantaged high school students in New York City so that they will be prepared for college admission and performance. Unique features of the program include small class size, special guidance services, a family…

Extensive data is presented which clarifies the number and percentage of persons who complete high school and college. Historical trends for the elementary, secondary and college levels are included. The report takes note of a number of growth and constraint factors: (1) wars, depressions, and the higher social cost of post-secondary instruction;…

The results of analyses of college-bound versus non-college-bound rural youth on tests and personal data available on the IBM cards in the Office of High School Testing at the University of Illinois are presented in this report on the second part of a 3-part study on the educational needs of rural youth. The data on IBM cards for 2,326 juniors and…

Comparison data on SAT verbal and mathematical were collected on pairs of examinees in three samples for later use in detecting instances of willful copying. Two of the samples were constructed with the knowledge that no examinee could possibly have copied from the answer sheet of any other examinee in the sample. The third sample was taken…

The University of New South Wales defers enrollment for a year for students who request a deferment. Information about these students, the results of studies by the University's Tertiary Education Research Centre, is presented and includes data on students who do not enroll after the deferment and students who do enroll and their academic…

According to confluence theory, a child is helped or hindered in intellectual development according to the average absolute intelligence (mental age) in the family when the child is born. An analysis of test scores, family information, and socioeconomic data of 36,000 college applicants in Colombia failed to support this theory. (Author/CP)

Official school records are used to analyze the opportunity structure and selection mechanisms within a school. Critics' charges that tracking systems preclude choice and mobility are not entirely supported, but more complex and subtle mechanisms for restricting opportunity are found to operate. (Author)

Reports that results of a 12 year survey of student grade averages and student knowledge indicate that students entering college today are less knowledgeable than the 1967 student, but have higher high school grade averages. (SL)

Argues that orienting high school teaching towards the advanced placement test fails, ironically, to prepare students for thinking, writing, and reading skills required in college. Noting that standardized tests promote the (misleading) conception of knowledge as correctness, offers a choice-based method for students to analyze writing function…

The development and application of a computer adventure game simulating the college experience for college-bound students are described. The game is intended to provide both a realistic role preview for prospective students and experience with computer interaction. (Author/MSE)

Presented a college night where students and parents were mixed into eight simulated admissions committees. Charged them with examining the credentials of four hypothetical candidates, and matching these to profiles for two different schools. Parents could not dominate, and all gained an understanding of the component pieces of college…