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Sharman, Kevin James – 1979
A study was conducted to describe the television viewing habits of grade 6 children in primary schools within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Australia; to examine the nature of the relationships between factors found to be relevant in explaining television behavior; and to examine the relationship between television behavior and school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Cluster Analysis, Commercial Television
Braskamp, Larry A.; And Others – 1978
A brief review is presented of a study on faculty salary equity undertaken during the 1976-77 academic year at the University of Illinois, Urbana. The study was conducted in three phases: description of university policies concerning salaries, determination of the existence of discrimination due to minority group status, and determination of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Asian Americans, College Faculty, Females
Hauser, Robert M.; Featherman, David L. – 1975
This essay treats inequality in access to schooling in demographic perspective. In constructing a brief history of educational inequality in the U.S., the 1962 and 1973 surveys of "Occupational Changes in a Generation" are drawn on heavily. It is found that among men born in the U.S. during the first half of this century, inequality of schooling…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Demography, Economic Factors, Educational Background
Keeves, J. P. – 1974
In a study of factors in the educational environment of the home, the school, and the peer group contributing to achievement and attitudes towards schooling at the upper primary and lower secondary school levels, an opportunity arose to examine the data available for configural and curvilinear relationships. Information was collected on 11…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research
Griffin, Larry – 1976
A topic of increasing concern to scholars and policy makers is the degree of bias in estimates of the socioeconomic returns (occupational status and earnings) to schooling. This paper, based on a re-analysis of published data from seven sources and on new data, attempts to quantify the specification bias due to the omission of socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Economic Opportunities, Educational Background, Educational Benefits, Employment Opportunities
Cory, Charles H. – 1976
This report presents data concerning the validity of a set of experimental computerized and paper-and-pencil tests for measures of on-job performance on global and job elements. It reports on the usefulness of 30 experimental and operational variables for predicting marks on 42 job elements and on a global criterion for Electrician's Mate,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Oriented Programs
Ruch, William W. – 1972
A survey of recent literature was undertaken to locate validity studies of paper-and-pencil tests which met the following criteria: (1) Studies were conducted in a business or industrial (i.e. non-education, non-military) setting; (2) Separate statistics were available for blacks and whites; (3) Race was not confounded with some outside variable…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Black Employment, Data, Employment Opportunities
Burson, William W. – 1972
A manual for assessing the effectiveness of a secondary school, taking differences in the school's resources into account, is presented. The Pennsylvania State Board of Education established the Bureau of Educational Quality Assessment which developed a measurement package in Phase I. Field tests were conducted on grade 11 students in 1968 in 100…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Objectives, Educational Quality, Evaluation Methods
Stallings, William M. – 1969
In an effort to improve the predictability of course grades in the College of Fine and Applied Arts the Torrance Figural Test (Form B) of Creative Thinking was administered to entering 1968 freshmen. Four figural creativity variables (Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, and Elaboration) were correlated with course grades, American College Testing…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Architecture, Art, College Freshmen
Jensen, Harald E.; Valentine, Lonnie D., Jr. – 1976
In early 1966, the military services were directed to explore the feasibility of creating an aptitude test battery which would stimulate interest in military service, provide counselor and student information on vocational aptitudes, provide the services with information on enlistment prospects, establish mental qualifications for enlistment and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Grades (Scholastic)
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Chi, Peter S. K. – Rural Sociology, 1986
Examines 218 black migrant farm workers to determine applicability of Index of General Well-Being, compare level of mental health with that of the general population, and assess and identify variations in subjective well-being. Finds lifestyle, social support, housing conditions, age, sex, and education influence subjective well-being. Discusses…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Environment, Health Needs
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Oman, Paul W. – AEDS Journal, 1986
Describes a study of 38 students at Eastern Oregon State College which identified mathematics proficiency as the key student characteristic leading to successful completion of computer science courses, and developed a model that accounts for 82 percent of the variation in students' final grades in computer courses for use by advisers. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Analysis of Variance, Computer Science Education
Liu, Richard; Liu, Rebecca – Online Submission, 2005
Equity in faculty salaries has always been a controversial issue facing institutions of higher education. As a bastion of academic freedom where faculty and students purse knowledge, it is almost anti-intellectual to find a gender gap in salaries. More importantly, there are laws, which ensure gender equity in salaries. Thus, salary equity has…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sex Fairness, Teacher Salaries, Multiple Regression Analysis
Paulus, John A.; Perosa, Linda M. – 1995
A sample of 107 eighth graders from a large urban middle school in the Midwest was administered the Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory (MAPI) to determine its utility in predicting grades earned, attendance, and social competence. The results of hierarchical multiple regression analysis indicated that the MAPI coping patterns significantly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Coping, Grade 8
Scheeren, Jo – 2001
Within the framework of the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), a collaborative effort was made by a large number of industrialized countries to get insight into the level of literacy of their adult populations. In the Netherlands, older adults (918 out of 3,090 respondents) were over sampled to get insight into their specific literacy…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Age Differences
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