ANTIOCH COLLEGE HAS INITIATED A PROGRAM TO PROVIDE A COLLEGE EDUCATION TO SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS WITH HIGH ACADEMIC POTENTIAL. THE PROGRAM OFFERS A CHALLENGE TO THE SMALL LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE TO BREAK TRADITION AND BECOME LESS PROVINCIAL BY ADMITTING STUDENTS DIFFERENT FROM THE TRADITIONAL COLLEGE POPULATION. THE FIRST GROUP OF 11…

This working paper presents six analyses first reported at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, August 31, 1968. Most of the individual chapters were written independently. All are, however, concerned with the Youth in Transition Project, a nationwide longitudinal study of adolescent boys. The five chapters presenting…

THIS STUDY TESTED THE HYPOTHESES THAT ONE SCHOOL IN A COLLEGE MAY BE EASIER THAN OTHERS IN THE SAME INSTITUTION, AND THAT STUDENTS IN ACADEMIC DIFFICULTY IN OTHER SCHOOLS WILL TRANSFER TO THE EASIER SCHOOL IN ORDER TO GRADUATE. THE STUDY WAS CONCERNED PRIMARILY WITH A LARGE SOUTHEASTERN COLLEGE WITH 12 SCHOOLS. DATA INCLUDED COLLEGE BOARD…

Academically competent third-graders and their parents were studied to (1) determine whether the illusion of incompetence documented in fifth graders appears in younger children; and (2) examine the influence that parents exert on their children's development of self-perceptions of academic competence. (PCB)

Results suggest that (1) sex differences are found for some types of spatial ability but not others; (2) large sex differences are found only on measures of mental rotation; (3) smaller sex differences are found on measures of spatial perception; and (4) when sex differences are found, they can be detected across the life span. (Author/RH)

Results of analysis of correlations collected by Cookson, following Eysenck and Cookson's study of personality and ability in young people, confirm the finding from previous Cattellian test data that the more intelligent children decline in relative extraversion scores and cast doubt on Eysenck's suggestion that introverts gradually show higher…

Explores English 100 eligibility and English 100 success prerequisites as enhancers of Cabrillo College (California) students' ability to succeed in Speech Communication, Criminal Justice, and Fire Technology. This study also tested for disproportionate impacts of the proposed prerequisites on ethnicity, gender, and disability groups. For all…

The findings of this study indicate that study skills and learning strategies may be more fundamental determinants of academic success than are abilities. (EH)

The 11-item LAS is a quick, effective instrument which can discriminate affective correlates of current achievement level. Its ability to differentiate achievement levels can allow advisors and counselors to begin to detect students who are similar in feeling and attitude to people who drop out of higher education. (Author)

Contrary to signals of alarm, the intellectual caliber of today's medical student is at least as high as his contemporary of 20 years ago, if not slightly higher. (HS)