In a study of factors in the educational environment of the home, the school, and the peer group contributing to achievement and attitudes towards schooling at the upper primary and lower secondary school levels, an opportunity arose to examine the data available for configural and curvilinear relationships. Information was collected on 11…

The American College Testing Program (ACT) reports on a survey of 1,717 institutions in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and related territories. The institutions covered in this study include responding four-year and upper-division colleges, universities, and other baccalaureate degree-granting schools; graduate, professional, and theological schools; and…