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Williams, Walter E. – 1978
At the University of South Florida the College of Natural Sciences administers the premedical sciences advising program. The program is designed to assist students seeking admission to a professional school in the health sciences. Advisors in the program have the dual responsibility of counselor and evaluator. The evaluation process estimates the…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admission (School), College Applicants, Competitive Selection
Yess, James P. – 1979
The intent of this study was to determine the influence of selected independent variables on the graduating grade point average (GPA) of community college students in various programs of study. A sample of 483 students from one community college represented seven programs of study: Business Administration-General, Business Administration-Transfer,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations
Trites, R. L.; Price, M. A. – 1977
A two-year study of "Learning Disabilities Found in Association with French Immersion Programming" indicated that children who encounter difficulty in primary French immersion programs may have a specific learning disability characterized by a maturational lag in the temporal lobe regions of the brain. In addition, it was found that…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Educational Research, Failure
Yamagishi, Midori; Gillmore, Gerald M. – 1980
The relationship of Nelson-Denny Reading Test scores and an English course placement recommendation to academic success of Educational Opportunity Program students at the University of Washington was studied. The placement recommendation was based on a writing sample and test scores. The 207 freshmen students who entered in either 1976 or 1978…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students
Albers, James R.; Burns, James A. – 1979
The effect of enrollment level changes on the long-range future of Western Washington University are investigated. Due to the high rate of Washington state in-migration, declining enrollments are not projected for Western Washington University. The impact of managed enrollment goals was examined to help the university determine the most…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Campus Planning, College Planning, Demography
Jones, Jerry L. – 1979
A study was conducted to determine the optimum combination of selected social, academic, and demographic variables to maximally differentiate membership in the successful, unsuccessful, and withdrawal groups of first-year computer programming majors in Virginia community colleges. A questionnaire focusing on 18 selected variables was administered…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Age, Community Colleges
Carroll, Stephen J.; And Others – 1977
An empirical approach is taken to the problem of predicting effects of student financial aid programs on postsecondary enrollment rates and patterns. A model of students' enrollment decisions is developed and used to estimate the likely effects of alternative award policies for the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant (BEOG) program. The analysis…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Bound Students, College Choice, Educational Economics
Petersen, Anne C.; Kellam, Sheppard G. – 1976
This paper presents data on a follow-up study of a project in the 1960's: a classroom assessment and intervention program directed at mental health for all the first grade classrooms of Woodlawn, a black poor community on Chicago's south side. Now, ten years later, the mental health of these adolescents as well as the mental health, structure, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Measures, Black Students, Comparative Analysis
Chase, Clinton I.; And Others – 1976
A study followed freshman students entering Indiana University in 1971, 1973, and 1974 to establish the rate and variables related to dropping out of the university. Students were labeled academic drops if they were achieving below a 2.0 grade point average (GPA) at the time of withdrawal, and nonacademic drops if not below 2.0. Students entering…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Alumni
Thain, John W. – 1994
Two studies at the Defense Language Institute (California) investigated the contribution of several variables to prediction of post-language-training proficiency: (1) scores on a general vocational aptitude battery and a language aptitude battery, both used to screen potential students; (2) scores on other cognitive measures not used in the…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Anxiety, English, Federal Programs
Jones, Charles; Clark, Linn; Grusec, Joan; Hart, Randle; Plickert, Gabriele; Tepperman, Lorne – Human Resources Development Canada, 2002
The experience of long-term poverty affects many child outcomes, in part through a family stress process in which poverty is considered to be one of the major factors causing family dysfunction, depression among caregivers and inadequate parenting. Recent scholarship extends the classical Family Stress Model by researching the ways in which…
Descriptors: Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Parenting Styles, Caregivers
Goodman, Irene F. – Online Submission, 2002
The Women's Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) project is the first cross-institutional, longitudinal examination of undergraduate women's experiences and persistence in engineering majors. The study was funded by both the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and conducted by Goodman Research Group, Inc. (GRG), a…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Program Evaluation, Women Scientists, Engineering
Goodman, Irene F. – Online Submission, 2002
The Women's Experiences in College Engineering (WECE) project is the first cross-institutional, longitudinal examination of undergraduate women's experiences and persistence in engineering majors. The study was funded by both the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and conducted by Goodman Research Group, Inc. (GRG), a…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Program Evaluation, Women Scientists, Academic Persistence
Nora, Amaury; Kraemer, Barbara; Itzen, Richard – 1997
This study examined environmental and institutional factors affecting persistence of Hispanic college students. The sample of 324 first- and second-year students surveyed in the spring of 1995 included students who were enrolled in programs at a private, Illinois, bilingual junior college which were established to educate students who were older,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Environment, Community Colleges, Cultural Influences
Saito-Abbott, Yoshito; Samimy, Keiko – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1997
A study investigated influences on attrition in Japanese second language instruction in one U.S. university. Subjects were students enrolled in the fall semester of beginning (n=134 students) and intermediate (n=79) levels of Japanese courses. In the fifth week of classes, students were administered a series of questionnaires to gather data on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Anxiety, Classroom Environment
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