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Martel, Laurence D.; Richman, Joel – 1985
The relationship between a standard measure of self-concept and withdrawal from college was studied with students at private New York colleges who were admitted through the Higher Education Opportunity Programs (HEOP). HEOP students are educationally and financially disadvantaged. The objective of the study was to promote policy formation and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary School Services, Change Strategies, College Attendance
Burkheimer, Graham J.; And Others – 1977
In order to obtain information about intermediate educational outcomes, especially the post secondary experience, this followup study of the Upward Bound Program (UB) was conducted. The study focused on educational progress and persistence, but also investigated student's educational expectations and problems experienced in obtaining an education.…
Descriptors: Attendance, College Preparation, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Download full textERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 24 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the relationship between home environment and reading achievement in Puerto Rican pupils; the relationship between magical thinking and reading skills in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Students, Cognitive Style, Deafness
Mann, Ronald A.; Walker, J. Kenneth – 1981
Results of a recent study of attrition, retention, and transfer within the system of public higher education in Kentucky are summarized. Attrition, retention, and transfer rates are presented by class level and institution for 1979-80. For first-time full-time freshmen, the university system had an attrition rate of 27.9 percent, ranging from 20.6…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, College Transfer Students
Williams, Albert P. – 1980
Medical school admissions and performance in 10 medical schools were assessed in relation to prediction using conventional measures. The origin of the research was an attempt to determine the effects of affirmative action on academic medicine. For the 10 schools, admissions decisions were analyzed, and an attempt was made to model statistically…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, Aptitude Tests, Certification
Malhorta, Man Mohanlal – 1980
As part of Project IMPACT's effort to identify and develop procedures for complying with the impact requirements of Public Law 94-482, a field study was conducted to identify and validate variables and their order of importance in predicting and evaluating impact of research and development (R&D) projects in vocational and technical education.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Research
Fernandez, Luis – 1978
Based on the assumption that during the next quarter century the academic labor market will be chronically depressed, a project was undertaken to create models for projecting college faculty demographics. In this report the statistical models and the results of their application are explained in detail, including extensive statistical tables.…
Descriptors: Age, Career Change, College Faculty, Demand Occupations
Pepin, Andrew J.; Korb, Roslyn – 1979
Data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 were used in a study to investigate the relative effectiveness of high school grades and standardized aptitude test scores, together with demographic characteristics, in predicting early postsecondary educational activity of high school seniors. Self concept and locus of…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Ability, College Attendance, College Bound Students
Connolly, John A.; McGrail, Janet – 1978
An attempt is made to consolidate some of the existing knowledge about important school variables and to propose new studies that will build upon that knowledge. The focus is on providing instruction to students from the orientation of educational psychology and in the context of elementary schools for students from low socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Stone, Meredith K.; McDonald, Frederick J. – 1977
A study to determine the effects of certain teaching methods on English proficiency is summarized. Participants were students and teachers of English as a second language at the West New York (New Jersey) Adult Learning Center. A pretest, observation, post test design was used. Data on student background characteristics such as age, sex, previous…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adults, Age Differences
McDonald, Frederick J.; And Others – 1977
This volume provides a technical summary of research conducted at the West New York (New Jersey) Adult Learning Center with adults in English as a second language classes. The study was conducted in order to determine the relation of teaching strategies and performances to the acquisition of skills in spoken English. Student proficiency was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adults, Classrooms
Emrick, John A.; Peterson, Susan M. – 1977
The National Diffusion Network provides a model for the adoption of outstanding educational programs. This second volume of the Final Report on the Evaluation of the National Diffusion Network consists of a series of technical supplements to Volume I, which contains the findings and recommendations. These technical supplements provide details of…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Williams, John D.; And Others – 1972
Two methods of reading instruction (homogeneous grouping and graded classes) are compared for 165 students in 8 rural North Dakota schools by raw gain scores, residual gain scores, and the analysis of covariance. (CK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Classes (Groups of Students), Comparative Analysis, Correlation
Crist-Whitzel, Janet L.; Hawley-Winne, Barbara J. – 1976
Relationships between cognitive and affective learner characteristics or "aptitudes" and mathematics achievement for sixth-graders in three instructional treatments in one school district were examined. Aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) analyses were performed to test for differential prediction of achievement outcomes among treatments, using…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
Borich, Gary D.; Peck, Robert F.
Logical predictions about relationships between school aptitude and standardized achievement, aptitude and teachers' grades, and teachers' grades and standardized achievement can be made from the literature. These predictions are that (1) conventional school aptitude measures should predict standardized achievement test scores equally well for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests
