This study was to identify variables potentially useful in predicting a larger proportion of variance in community college study fields than accounted for by the current Washington Pre-College (WPC) battery. Selected tests from the Comparative Guidance and Placement (CGP) Core and Research Batteries, and the Tool and Form Matching subtests from…

The Washington Pre-College (WPC) program decided, in fall 1967, to inaugurate in April 1968 the testing of high school students during the spring of their junior year. The advantages of this shift from senior year testing were to provide guidance data for earlier, more extensive use in high school and to make these data available to colleges at…

Some college freshman goals are realistic and some not but they are important both developmentally and socially. The adolescent need of a purpose to guide his behavior serves to continue the interests and values that were rewarding in the past and will help him organize his learning in college. Chances for attainment of his goals are enhanced when…

This study attempted to provide a way to identify disadvantaged students at the junior college and to determine what data could be used as a basis for developing a curriculum to help them. Two measures of cognition, School and College Ability Test (SCAT) and Florida 12th Grade Battery, and three measures of the affective domain, Social Reaction…

This evaluation was made to determine whether the SCAT-verbal cutoff scores were adequate for placement in the four different English courses. To accomplish this, 223 students for whom both the scores and the English grades were available for the four courses were chosen. The total number of students (381) completing the courses were used as the…

NOR CAL, the Northern California Research and Development Group composed of 28 California community colleges, aims at identifying problems in community colleges and alternatives for solving them. This paper is a review of the NOR CAL Attrition Project, a 3-year study of potential drop-outs in California community colleges. The purpose of the…

This research attempted to extend educational prediction for community college students by including nontraditional (nonintellective) predictors and criteria. Predictors included the Washington Pre-College (WPC) Battery, the Comparative Guidance Placement (CGP) Battery, and high school grade point averages (GPA). Criteria included students'…

TWO SERIES OF TESTS WERE CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE SIGNIFICANCE AND MEASURABILITY OF CREATIVITY. IN THE FIRST SERIES, THE GROUP TEST OF CREATIVITY DEVELOPED BY RISSER AND METFESSEL WAS GIVEN TO 425 SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT ELIOT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE CREATIVE ABILITIES MEASURED AND THE STUDENTS'…

The following topics concerning the American College Test (ACT) are treated, with an emphasis on the use of the ACT at Ohlone College: (1) an explanation of what ACT scores are, how they are interpreted, and where the ACT 'fits' in the spectrum of educational tests; (2) factors that can influence ACT scores; (3) the use of the ACT in the…

THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MEANS OF IMPROVING UPON THE USE OF HIGH SCHOOL GRADE AVERAGES AS PREDICTORS OF GRADES AT ALFRED STATE COLLEGE. THE SAMPLE CONSISTED OF STUDENTS FROM 15 HIGH SCHOOLS WHICH HAD SENT AT LEAST 20 STUDENTS TO THE COLLEGE DURING A 6-YEAR PERIOD. AN "INTERNAL" SCALING OF HIGH SCHOOL GRADES WAS…

GRADE DISTRIBUTIONS IN ENGLISH, SOCIAL SCIENCES, FOREIGN LANGUAGES, MATHEMATICS, AND NATURAL SCIENCES WERE COMPARED WITH SCORES ON TESTS GIVEN AT THE TIME OF ADMISSION. STUDENTS WITH SCORES BETWEEN THE 85TH AND 95TH PERCENTILES EARNED SUPERIOR GRADES IN HIGHLY VERBAL COURSES. AS A GROUP, STUDENTS ABOVE THE 74TH PERCENTILE PERFORMED NO BETTER THAN…

THIS INVESTIGATION OF THE ACADEMIC POTENTIAL AND COLLEGE GRADES OF JUNIOR COLLEGE FRESHMEN REPORTS THE PREDICTIVE VALIDITY OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE TESTING (ACT) PROGRAM DATA FOR JUNIOR COLLEGES, AND COMPARED THE RESULTS FOR 85 JUNIOR COLLEGES WITH THOSE FOR 205 4-YEAR COLLEGES. JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS WERE FOUND TO BE SOMEWHAT LESS ABLE…

Nor Cal Phase III was the experimental portion of the 3-year attrition study. The general purpose of the study was to design and test treatments aimed at reducing attrition among first-time freshmen entering community colleges. Twenty-eight colleges (22 in Northern California, five in Southern California and one out-of-state) were involved in…

In an effort to predict the academic performance of their students, the counseling staff at Montgomery College (Maryland) administered the Brown and Holtzman Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes (SSHA) to 210 freshmen students. The findings of the SSHA indicate that the majority of entering freshmen at Montgomery College do not know efficient…

In an effort to examine the variables contributing to academic persistence, 1,691 St. Petersburg (Florida) Junior College (SPJC) students (960 male and 731 female) were tested two years after their initial enrollment. Ten cognitive variables and 15 non-cognitive variables were examined to determine their relationship to persistence, defined as the…