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Peer reviewedLarose, Simon; Robertson, Donald U.; Roy, Roland; Legault, Frederic – Research in Higher Education, 1998
Reports two studies hypothesizing that nonintellectual learning dispositions are as important as intellectual assets in predicting college student success. One study was conducted with 298 low-risk francophone students in Canada; the second involved 179 academically at-risk students in the United States. Implications of the results for selection,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Class Rank
Peer reviewedMoline, Arlett E. – Research in Higher Education, 1987
Path analysis was used to explore the relationships among a number of variables related to student persistence. The subjects were freshmen in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. Variables that showed the largest total effects on persistence were college grade-point average and high school rank. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Class Rank, College Students, Data Analysis
