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Roudabush, Glenn E. – 1975
The objective of this study was to show that standardized reading scores could be adequately estimated from scores on a criterion-referenced test in reading. This would reduce classroom test time, while, at the same time, provide the kinds of information teachers need to guide instruction, and the kinds of information administrators require for…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, Criterion Referenced Tests, Equated Scores
Rossell, Christine H.; Crain, Robert L. – 1973
This paper presents a new measure of school desegregation policy output and explores various socioeconomic conditions and political processes associated with the degree of school desegregation in 69 northern cities. Data was collected by a mail questionnaire. The measures of school desegregation policy were computed as follows: The number of black…
Descriptors: Activism, Boards of Education, Cross Sectional Studies, Multiple Regression Analysis
Anderson, Barry D.; Tissier, Ronald M. – 1972
A need to provide more data about the impact of schools on children in terms of manipulable variables prompted an examination of the relationship between school organization and student aspirations for further education. A causal model is examined which would enable investigation of the mechanism by which school contexts could alter aspiration.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Bureaucracy, Educational Environment, Educational Policy
Hilfiker, Leo R. – 1971
An earlier report examined the relationship of school system innovativeness to selected dimensions of interpersonal behavior in eight school systems as revealed through data collected in 1967. The major implication of this study suggested that the climate of the schools might be changed to make them more receptive to innovation from within or from…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Change Agents, Comparative Analysis, Correlation
Rookey, T. Jerome – 1972
An attempt was made to determine what factors relate to achievement in language arts, mathematics, and certain attitudes in an individualized programmed instruction school. A total of 87 fifth grade pupils were tested both in the Fall and Spring using the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Pennsylvania Questionnaire and the Stanford Achievement Test.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Attitudes, Cognitive Development
Burson, William W. – 1972
A manual for assessing the effectiveness of an elementary 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 5 students in 1968 in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Objectives
Marshall, Jon C.; Powers, Jerry M.
A study was conducted to: (1) determine the simple and multiple correlation coefficients between selected educational/personal variables and academic achievement at intermediate grade levels as measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills; (2) determine the multiple linear regression equations for predicting individual student achievement as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Arithmetic, Correlation
1975
This document describes a model for predicting the success of recent high school graduates in Florida community college business courses. In the development of the model, test scores from the Florida Twelfth Grade Test and grades earned during the senior year by high school graduates from eleven high schools in Brevard County entering their first…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Business Education, Community Colleges
Crawford, Joyce H.; Fry, Maurine A. – 1976
This study was designed to examine the effects of auditory memory, visual memory, and vocabulary knowledge on intramodal and intermodal delayed matching-to-sample tasks. A secondary objective was to assess the value of task performance and trait measures in predicting reading achievement. A total of 52 first graders were randomly selected as…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education

Kember, David; Dekkers, John – Distance Education, 1987
Discussion of need for academic support for distance education students and the role of study centers in providing such support highlights a survey of 1,144 students enrolled in external courses at Capricornia Institute (Australia). Current use of study centres and future use in light of advances in telecommunications are considered. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Distance Education, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries

Gourgey, Annette F. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1987
This study of drill-and-practice computer-assisted instruction (CAI) compares CAI with reinforcement, CAI with formal classroom instruction, and CAI alone to determine which is most effective for gains in achievement. Results are analyzed for remedial students in grades four to eight who studied reading and math, and future research needs are…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Analysis of Covariance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conventional Instruction

Metzner, Barbara S.; Bean, John P. – Research in Higher Education, 1987
Data were gathered from nontraditional (commuter, part-time) freshmen at a midwestern urban university. Dropout was a function of grade point average and credit hours enrolled, as well as the utility of education for future employment, satisfaction with the student role, opportunity to transfer, and age affecting dropout through intent to leave.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, Commuter Colleges, Commuting Students

Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald – Rural Sociology, 1987
Proposes social structural view of poverty rates as a function of local opportunity instead of individual-level focus on who is poor. Defines poverty rates as a function of industrial structure and relative power of labor in a locality. Confirms theoretical model with data from 46 South Carolina counties. (LFL)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Definitions, Economic Opportunities, Employment Patterns

Carpenter, P. G.; Hayden, M. – Australian Journal of Education, 1985
The importance of attudinal and motivational dispositions and of external influences on the academic achievement of students completing the final year of secondary schooling in three Australian states is examined. A model of academic achievement is proposed, and step-wise multiple regression is used to analyze the data. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Foreign Countries, High School Seniors

Griswold, Philip A. – AEDS Journal, 1985
This study evaluated the degree to which college major (education or business) and student individual differences (sex, age, mathematics ability, and locus of control) are related to attitudes about computers. Results indicate education majors have less favorable attitudes about computers than business majors even with individual differences taken…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy