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Download full textArnold, Carolyn L. – 1995
This report illustrates the use of hierarchical linear models (HLM) with National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data to identify school and other correlates of student achievement. Based on an analysis of the 1990 NAEP mathematics achievement data for 4th, 8th, and 12th graders in public schools, this study is part of an ongoing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnicity
Slark, Julie; And Others – 1991
In an effort to determine the validity of placement tests used at Rancho Santiago College (Santa Ana, California), for placing students into mathematics courses, a study was conducted comparing the course performance of students who met test cut-off scores ("eligible" to take the course) with students who did not meet the cut-off scores…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Testing, Grade Prediction
Naylor, Kim – 1993
Psychologists, diagnosticians, and educators are often required to assess a child's functioning to assist in placing the child in the most appropriate educational setting. To assess the child's current level of functioning, various behavior rating scales have been designed to integrate both teacher and parent observations in this assessment…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Children, Diagnostic Tests
Bailey, Nancy; And Others – 1994
A study was designed in which a battery of 11 selected instruments was given to 320 professional students (four classes) at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine to measure a variety of parameters of brain function and cognitive ability. Results were to be used to develop ability or competency profiles, to compare scores, to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
Preparing To Assess Families in Treatment: Reliability and Validity of a Family Affiliation Measure.
Rominger, Robert L., III – 1994
Two studies evaluated a technique for combining perceptions family members have of their families into measures of the family as a unit. Study 1 tested the reliability of an individually administered measure of family support and affiliation created to serve as a basis for aggregated family indices. Two existing family-assessment methods were…
Descriptors: Children, College Students, Counseling, Discriminant Analysis
Ang, Cheng H.; Noble, Julie P. – 1993
This study examined the separate and joint use of high school course grades, course work taken, and American College Testing Program (ACT) Assessment subject area scores for making course placement decisions. The data for this study were obtained from nine institutions through their participation in a pilot study of the ACT Course Placement…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Selection (Students), Decision Making, English
Walthall, Joe; Smith, Terry – 1990
This study investigated the relationship between measured intelligence and discrepancies existing between actual achievement levels and projected achievement levels in mildly handicapped resource room students in Arkansas. Twenty-seven students had been identified as learning disabled and 19 as mildly mentally retarded. Subjects each received…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicap Identification
Whitman Inst., San Francisco, CA. – 1989
This document contains an edited transcript of a forum held as part of a research project called Thinkahead, which was designed to serve as a catalyst for developing educational models that will prepare people to think more critically and creatively in the world of the future. The forum participants, all business people concerned about the ways in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Innovation, Educational Trends
Sonnenberg, William; And Others – 1990
The Second Annual Federal Forecasters Conference, "Forecasting and Public Policy", provided a forum where forecasters from various Federal agencies could meet and discuss aspects of forecasting in the U.S. Government. A total of 140 forecasters from 42 Federal agencies and other organizations attended the conference. Opening remarks by…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Conference Proceedings, Decision Making, Educational Change
Hosek, James R.; And Others – 1986
Research provided information about the magnitude of an individual's enlistment probability and how that probability depends on his personal characteristics, family background, employment situation, and expectations for further education. Analysis focused on male high school seniors and high school graduates. Findings suggested that each segment…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Career Education, Employment Level, Enlisted Personnel
Lutz, Frank W.; And Others – 1987
A number of new legislative mandates placed on Texas public schools has had the effect of requiring extensive school facility construction and alterations. The Interim Committee, established by the Texas Senate, enlisted the services of the Center for Policy Studies and Research in Elementary and Secondary Education at East Texas State University…
Descriptors: Building Obsolescence, Cost Estimates, Educational Facilities Planning, Educational Trends
Balz, Frank J. – 1982
The loss in selected federal student assistance programs in the states and by institutional control based on President Reagan's budget request for funding year 1983 is estimated. Funding levels for 1981-1982 for the campus-based programs (Special Education Opportunities Grant Program--SEOG, College Work-Study--CW-S, and the National Direct Student…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Federal Aid
Winrock International Livestock Research & Training Center. Morrilton, AR. – 1983
The four chapters of this analysis of world agriculture deal with production, consumption, and world trade. World food production and consumption continued to grow rapidly in the 1970's, but at a rate somewhat slower than in the 1960's. It is projected that for the 1990's consumption will increase faster than production in most of the world's…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Agricultural Supplies, Agricultural Trends, Agriculture
Brazziel, William – 1977
Traditional predictor variables of SAT scores and high school grades seldom account for more than 16 percent of the variance in student performance in college and graduate school, and they account for even less in decisions of students to leave school. Three studies are presented that added nonintellective variables to the traditional combination…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Administrators, College Students
Dutrow, Anita Marceca; Houston, Charles A. – 1981
A study was conducted at Dabney S. Lancaster Community College (DSLCC) to examine the relationships between reading achievement, academic major, selected personality variables, grade point average (GPA), and scores on the College Guidance and Placement Test (CGPT). The Iowa Silent Reading Test, the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Correlation, Grade Point Average
