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Rowe, Wayne – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1973
A group of 44 undergraduates was administered the Personal Orientation Inventory under different instructions to fake good'' toward two expectations. Results indicated that scores were significantly affected in the hypothesized directions. Earlier findings about the effect of dissimulation on PO1 scores were equivocal and conclusions expressed…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Interest Inventories, Interests
Download full textLunneborg, Clifford E.; Lunneborg, Patricia W. – 1970
Formulae for discriminant functions were developed to permit future student users of the Washington Pre-College test battery to determine their similarity to successful University students graduating in 6 major areas - humanities, physical science, social science, business, biological science, and engineering. The sample studied consisted on 1,392…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Career Development, College Students
Planisek, R. J.; And Others – 1968
Research has provided few guidelines or criteria which can be utilized by college deans to decide which academically dismissed students have the highest probability of success once readmitted. In this study, measures of student characteristics were sought which correlate with academic performance. 360 admission applicants, of whom 181 sought…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission (School), College Admission, College Students
Salter, Sterling – 1969
The purpose of this study was to investigate the value of the academic achievement scale (AACH) which is an index of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB). Subjects were 149 male and female students who requested help in decision making. All subjects had taken the American College Testing program examination (ACT) and the SVIB. Grade point…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, College Students, Grades (Scholastic)
Borich, Gary D.; Bauman, Patricia M. – 1972
The French and Guilford-Zimmerman measures of spatial orientation and spatial visualization factors are compared. Both approaches to measurement are described. A study to assess the two approaches is reported. Both tests were administered to 40 college sophomores in a classroom setting according to published instructions. Pearson product-moment…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Aptitude Tests, College Students, Correlation
Pemberton, W. A. – 1970
This paper is a review of opinion and research concerning the objectivity and relevance of grades and grade averages as measures and as predictors of success. As measures they are ambiguous, reflecting differences in sex, basic temperament, instructors, departments, institutions, as much as levels of competence. And as a predictor of…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, College Environment, College Students
Gibson, Dennis Lee; Dunnette, Marvin D. – 1971
A self-report inventory was compared with a situational test as a predictor of the verbal behavior of individual members of small interpersonal skills training groups. As hypothesized, the situational test was a better predictor than was the self-report inventory. A powerful social conformity effect may have operated in both the situational test…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, College Students
