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Download full textSKELTON, R.B. – 1959
INTELLIGENCE, SEX, AND AT LEAST TWO YEARS OF HIGH SCHOOL FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY ARE EXAMINED AS FACTORS IN COLLEGE PERSISTENCE. STUDIES OF ACADEMIC SUSPENSIONS AND WITHDRAWALS AFTER THE FRESHMAN YEAR AT ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE REVEAL THAT (1) THERE IS A HIGH DEGREE OF CORRELATION BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE AND COLLEGE PERSISTENCE, (2) WOMEN ARE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Preparation, College Students
McEvoy, Theodore L. – 1967
It is suggested that greater attention be given to psychological development assessment in the selection of students for cross-cultural exchange programs. To date little effort has been made to evaluate such program objectives as: (1) fostering international understanding, and (2) attainment of educational experiences not available domestically.…
Descriptors: College Students, Emotional Development, Exchange Programs, Individual Differences
Kirchner, Corinne; Wilder, David S. – 1959
The expansion of attitude research has been concurrent with the growth of the adult education movement. Most attitude research to date has focused on attitudes toward controversial issues but recent formulations of the nature of attitudes emphasize that they exist in functional interdependence with other attitudinal, motivational, and value…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Attitude Change, Attitudes, Behavior
Bond, Guy L. – 1968
Pertinent findings from the combined analyses of results of the United States Office of Education First-Grade Reading Studies are presented. Suggestions for incorporating diagnostic findings into the classroom teaching of reading are presented. The first-grade studies demonstrate that the reading achievement of first- and second-grade children is…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Developmental Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Media
Brophy, Jere E. – 1975
It is argued that research on the nature of classroom interaction and on the relationships between such interaction and student outcome measures must use the student rather than the class mean as the basic unit of analysis. This is due to a number of factors: (a) students in the same classroom, no matter how homogeneous, show great individual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Educational Research, Elementary School Students
PDF pending restorationMoore, William E. – 1976
A comprehensive review of the literature regarding the impact of college on students has indicated that the most striking principle in these studies is the tendency of initial differences in characteristics among groups entering diverse settings to increase over time. The purpose of the present study is to investigate this phenomenon of…
Descriptors: College Choice, Groups, Higher Education, Individual Differences
Thro, Mary Patricia – 1978
Individual differences in cognitive structures resulting primarily from exposure to physics content were investigated in this research study. Thirty college students were divided into a treatment group of 19 and a control group of 11. A regression analysis indicated that individual differences were probably operative. An analysis of variance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, College Students, Comprehension
Schultz, Raymond A. – 1975
The relationship of Locus of Control and Sensation Seeking to 267 high school students' perceptions of their Actual and Ideal socio-psychological climates as measured by the Learning Environment Inventory (LEI) was investigated. A principal components analysis of the LEI responses yielded three substantive dimensions: pleasantness index,…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Environmental Influences, High School Students, Individual Differences
Goh, David S. J.; And Others – 1974
The history of attempts by psychologists to determine the contribution of personality to intelligence has not been one of unqualified success. Part of the problem may be in the balance of granularity of analyses on the intelligence side and the personality side. A comprehensive analysis of the contributions of extraversion and neuroticism to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Environmental Influences, Higher Education
Carson, Robert C. – 1975
This paper reviews some of the research findings relating to the issue of personalism versus situationism in the psychology of personality. The recurrent controversy regarding the relative importance of situations, personal dispositions, and interactions between these is addressed with a focus on the manner in which persons perceive, construe, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Interaction Process Analysis
Erez, Miriam – 1976
Focusing on feedback as a necessary condition for goals to affect performance, it was predicted that feedback and goals would be interactively related to performance. This prediction complements findings by Locke and his colleagues that knowledge alone is not sufficient condition for effective performance. Also, it was suggested that the…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Feedback, Goal Orientation, Higher Education
Gray, Jerry L. – 1976
The primary purpose of this study was to establish normative data for the cognitive style behaviors of children from kindergarten through the ninth grade. Approximately 400 students served as subjects. The measures used were a free response pictorial-, a multiple choice pictorial-, and a multiple choice verbal-test. Cognitive style behavior was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Development
Levine, S. Joseph – 1974
Previous studies show that a listener has the potential to receive recorded information at a rate far exceeding the rates that are used for conversation and for the production of tape recordings. However, few studies have examined listeners' rate preferences. Thus, 48 elementary school children in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade listened to a series…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Aural Learning, Elementary School Students, Individual Differences
Fleming, James W. – 1974
Fifty-eight students (in grades 5 and 6) of average or near-average intelligence (who were reading 2 or more years below their normal expected level and who learned best through the auditory modality) took part in a study to evaluate the following areas: the effectiveness of two auditory highlighting procedures for increasing listening…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Individual Differences
Guilford, J. P. – 1969
In research conducted "over a period of 20 years" on aptitudes of high level personnel, the purpose was to analyze thinking abilities or processes into their unique components. The approach was through study of individual differences in performance on intellectual tasks varied systematically over broad ranges of psychological functioning.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cognitive Processes, Educational Practices, Factor Analysis
