This report examines the relationship between various characteristics of students with disabilities and the probability that they would participate in the NAEP assessments, given the current methods of accommodation adopted by their state. The report describes the methodological approach which calculates for each state an expected inclusion rate…

Students in science and non-science departments of the State University College, Buffalo, were given the Survey of Object Visualization, a test designed to measure aptitude to visualize objects when disassembled and in various positions. Science majors scored significantly higher than non-science students. Within the science group, different bands…

A growing body of evidence indicates that for some children, early incidences of challenging behaviors are predictors of later difficulties. These incidences of challenging behaviors may predict mental health issues, social adjustment issues and/or increased challenging behaviors that will impede school success and impact transition to adult life…

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…

Selected intellectual, personality, and biographical variables were used in a multiple-correlation study to predict success in an independent study course and in a traditionally organized lecture-laboratory course in college biological science. The sample consisted of 630 Purdue underclassmen. Scores on the Guilford-Zimmerman temperament survey,…

Reports research with the Survey of Object Visualization (SOV) test that indicates that science majors can be distinguished from other students by SOV scores. (AL)

An expectancy model for predicting academic achievement was found to be a potentially useful tool for understanding factors that influence effort and performance. (MM)

This study was designed to help students decide whether or not to register for a general chemistry course. High school grade point averages (GPAs) and American College Testing (ACT) scores were obtained on over 600 students from New Mexico State University and were entered into correlation analysis with chemistry grades. A "Chemistry…

TO EXAMINE SPECIFICALLY THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STUDENTS WHO HAD DECIDED ON A VOCATION AND THOSE WHO HAD NOT, TWO SEPARATE STUDIES WERE MADE, ONE OF COLLEGE FRESHMEN AND THE OTHER OF STUDENTS PLANNING TO ENTER COLLEGE. IN STUDY I, 6,289 MALES AND 6,143 FEMALES FROM 31 INSTITUTIONS WERE TESTED BY THE AMERICAN COLLEGE SURVEY NEAR THE END OF THEIR…

This study is concerned with the problem of measuring rate of learning in individualized instructional situations, and with the relationship between rate and a number of variables. Pupil aptitude, achievement, and classroom performance were measures correlated with learning rates in six different Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI)…

Tests indicated that kindergarten children with impulsive conceptual tempos performed significantly lower on several measures of achievement and reasoning ability than did children with reflective tempos. (Editor)

Four studies are described to demonstrate that low-level expectations of student ability become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Adult educators inherit students whose self-concept may have been formed by oppressive, self-destructive expectations and are cautioned against perpetuating discrimination and destructive labeling practices. (AG)

This study of Los Angeles City College (LACC) attrition examined characteristics of 397 randomly selected students who entered in the fall of 1967. Summaries of the more important findings follow. Ninety per cent of the sample population persisted through the first semester, though only sixteen per cent returned to complete a fifth semester.…

The method used to arrive at four measures (three aptitude test scores and a high school grade point average) for predicting probable success is described. These measures were developed into three separate equations to predict success in: learning shorthand theory, reading shorthand notes, and dictation/transcription ability. (Author/MS)