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Twa, Jim; And Others – 1980
The purpose of this study was to validate on a second sample of student teachers, prediction equations developed to predict performance in student teaching. The study was part of a longitudinal project. Equations tested in this study were produced in a previous study by subjecting to multiple regression techniques six biographical and 40…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Prediction, Predictive Measurement, Program Evaluation
Download full textCooley, William W. – 1974
This paper deals with two fundamental problems that are embedded in the evaluation of school practices: (1) attributing value to outcome measures, and (2) attributing outcomes to particular practices. Ways of generating evidence regarding the value of an outcome are discussed, particularly longitudinal research that clarifies the causal relations…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Evaluation Methods, Instruction, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedLosak, John – Journal of Higher Education, 1979
In the two studies reported, students who wrote the CLEP and students who did not were compared in grade point average, graduate rate, and rate of progress. For both studies, the CLEP students performed at least as well as non-CLEP on all but one measure. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Graduates, College Students, Comparative Analysis
House, Peggy A. – 1978
Fifty-seven outstanding students, grades seven to nine, entered the first or second year of the Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Project. First year students earned credit for two years of high school algebra in one year; second year students earned high school credit for either transformational or traditional geometry and trigonometry.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acceleration, Achievement Gains, Junior High Schools
Halasa, Ofelia – 1970
This study represents a segment of an evaluation of the effects of two diametrically-opposed instructional strategies on inner-city kindergarten children who had varying preschool experiences. The child- and parent-oriented "enrichment" approach was used in one school while the teacher- and goal-oriented "direct instructional"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience, Educational Strategies
2001
This symposium on university programs consists of three presentations. "Institutional and Curricular Characteristics of Leading Graduate Human Resource Development (HRD) Programs in the United States" (K. Peter Kuchinke) reports a study on institutional arrangements, student enrollments, and core curriculum content and found a large…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Education, Business Administration Education, College Students
GOUGH, HARRISON G.; MCCORMACK, WILLIAM A. – 1967
TO CLARIFY ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE RAPID AND CONTINUING EXPANSION OF OVERSEAS STUDY PROGRAMS FOR AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS, A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS WAS MADE OF DATA OBTAINED FROM A BATTERY OF TESTS AND INTERVIEWS WITH 85 JUNIORS ACCEPTED FOR STUDY ABROAD IN THE SPRING OF 1965. FINDINGS WERE COMPARED WITH SIMILAR DATA FOR NON-APPLICANTS AND REJECTED…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, College Programs
