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Costello, Francis J. – 1977
Entrance requirements and a weeding process conducted by way of a pre-engineering mathematics program act as a restriction on the number of students graduating with engineering degrees. This study examined the relationship between entrance requirements and the degree of student success upon graduation, as well as the validity of the weeding effect…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, College Mathematics
Anderson, John T. – 1973
A study dealt with determining the feasibility of using work evaluation in adult basic education (ABE) programs in Wisconsin and the extent to which this evaluation process would be of value to the ABE programs and students. Five ABE students participated in a two-week evaluation in which their vocational aptitudes, interests, abilities,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Background, Intelligence
Allen, Ted W.; And Others – 1978
An information processing approach was applied to the development and validation of a test battery intended for personnel selection, classification, and guidance; and design of training programs. The approach specifies that tests should measure specific cognitive processes and basic abilities, rather than prior experience. Tests should be short,…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
Woodcock, Richard W. – 1977
The Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery is a wide-range comprehensive set of individually administered tests, with norms provided from the preschool to the geriatric level. Part one contains twelve subtests of academic ability and aptitude. Part two contains ten subtests measuring academic achievement. The final section measures scholastic…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adults, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Tests
Yeany, Russell H.; And Others – 1980
Results are reported of a study that: (1) examined the relationships between university students' entry characteristics and achievement in biological science; and (2) assessed the effectiveness of interactive instructional video-tapes in improving science achievement. Among the variables examined as likely to predict achievement were scholastic…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Biology, Cognitive Development, College Science
Hinton, John Roger – 1980
This study examines the role of cognitive styles as they pertain to the learning of mathematics. Selected dimensions of cognitive style relevant to the learning of mathematics by two-year college students are identified and a resulting profile of cognitive style dimensions is analyzed in relation to mathematics achievement, aptitude, and attitude.…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style
Hardesty, Larry – 1980
The relationship between academic success at DePauw University and such commonly used predictors as tested ability and academic success in high school was examined. The various subtleties of the multiple regression research method were also examined. Subjects were 1758 students who entered DePauw University during the fall semester of 1973, 1974,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Class Rank
Download full textBotterbusch, Karl F. – 1978
The purpose of this guide is to provide procedures, ideas, and examples that will insure the successful use of job sites to the evaluator who chooses to use job site evaluation to assess client potential outside of the rehabilitation facility. The first part gives some very precise reasons for and examples of the different uses of job site…
Descriptors: Adults, Disabilities, Employment Potential, Field Tests
Tate, Richard L. – 1980
This paper reviews multivariate hypothesis testing, interval estimation, and discriminant analysis procedures for an aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) analysis and illustrates the procedures with data from a large experimental study of science education at the secondary school level. The treatment variable of interest is time allowed for study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Discriminant Analysis, Hypothesis Testing
POTTS, ALFRED; REDBIRD, HELEN M. – 1961
THE PROGRAM PURPOSE WAS TO LEARN THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEMS CHARACTERISTIC TO THE EDUCATION OF THE MIGRANT CHILD AND TO ACHIEVE BOTH A STRUCTURE OF EDUCATION AND A KNOWLEDGE OF CONTENT AND METHODOLOGY THAT WOULD MEET HIS NEEDS. THE PROJECT STRUCTURE WAS DEVELOPED TO LEARN ABOUT ORGANIZATION FOR ADMINISTRATION OF EDUCATION PROGRAMS, FINANCIAL…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Educational Finance
Travers, Eugene J. – 1979
The uses of standardized test results are discussed and various measurement terms are defined. Scores on criterion referenced tests are interpreted by relating performance to some predetermined criterion, whereas scores on norm-referenced tests are interpreted by comparing them with scores obtained by members of the group on which the test was…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Prather, James E.; Heery, Loretta L. – 1979
Selected academic and personal characteristics of the Georgia State University Master of Science Degree graduate students in the College of Urban Life were examined. The sample of 759 students active during the period of 1969-78 were studied in terms of: demographic characteristics, undergraduate environment and performance, the environment at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, College Environment, Educational Background
Abram, Marie J.; Cobb, Robert A. – 1981
A questionnaire was designed to survey Logan County (Kentucky) students who withdrew from school during the 1976-77 and 1977-78 school years. Of the 130 survey instruments circulated, 37 (28%) were returned. A comparison of six demographic variables, based on school records, revealed that the respondents and the original population were similar on…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Achievement Gains, Demography, Dropout Attitudes
Kapes, Jerome T.; Greenwood, Katy L. – 1980
The OCR Guidelines (Vocational Education Programs Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Service on the Basis of Race, Color, National Origin, Sex and Handicap) are not the result of new legislation, but are new regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and Section 504…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, Counselor Role, Disabilities
Durio, Helen F.; Thomas, Linda – 1980
The documentation of feelings of negativism and detachment among students and faculty in large universities or their relation to aptitude, achievement, categoric-demographic variables, and course-instructor evaluation, is limited. The pervasiveness of negativism was investigated on three scaled dimensions--(1) negativism toward the university, (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Alienation, College Faculty
