A study was conducted to compare the academic progress of two-year college transfers, senior college transfers, and continuing sophomores and juniors (native students) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) as measured by mean grade point average (GPA), academic status, graduation, and continued enrollment through two years after transfer.…

The results of administration of the Washington Pre-College Test (WPCT) to a statewide sample of eleventh-grade public high school students during March of 1985 are reported. In addition to the test results, supporting information is reported on the students, including grades, credits earned, courses taken, academic and career interests, and…

A study compares the quantity, quality, and personal characteristics of teacher education candidates for the 1982-83 school year with the teacher education candidates for the 1971-72 and 1972-73 school years. Subjects included students of secondary education at Indiana State University (ISU) who had applied to student teach. Data for the study…

A study compared the levels of academic achievement of high school equivalency students and high school diploma students as measured by grade point averages and proportion of credit hours passed. The problem was whether students with a high school equivalency certificate could be as academically successful in a university program as high school…

A study tested a conceptual model of attrition, the Tinto (1975) model, on a group of General Educational Development (GED) examinees and on a comparison group of traditional high school graduates from a single public community college. The sample consisted of 198 GED students and 201 traditional high school graduates who entered Queensborough…

The relationship between college grades and achievement of college graduates was studied at Winona State University, Minnesota. The following criteria for investigating this relationship were assessed: quality of vocational achievement, acceptance of responsibility in social groups, and further intellectual development. These criteria were…

The academic persistence of undergraduate students at Arizona State University was studied. Demographic and academic profiles were developed, and persistence rates were calculated for the overall population of 3,166 freshmen, and by gender and ethnicity. Additional demographic variables were residency status and age. The academic variables…

Because of the declining number of transfer students from California's community colleges to its four-year institutions, the University of California (UC) initiated a study to gather current information on community college transfer students at UC. The study focused on trends in community college transfers between 1965 and 1983; origins of…

This study explored the relationship between educational orientation and age, sex, and academic achievement. Subjects were undergraduate and graduate education students: 46 males and 67 females. The dependent variable, andragogical-pedagogical orientation, was measured by the Student Orientation Questionnaire (Christian, 1982). This instrument,…

Differences between black and white students' college performance were examined, along with the effects of institutional characteristics and relationships with faculty. A sample of 2,218 black and 1,876 white students from 30 universities in 10 southern and southern border states were studied. The faculty sample consisted of 280 black and 426…

The introductory management science (MS) course has historically been recognized as one of the most difficult core courses in the business school curriculum. This study uses multiple regression to examine the factors that contribute to the success of undergraduate business students in an MS course, based on data gathered from the college…

The undergraduate student body in the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida was studied to determine if there were significant differences in the grade-point ratios (GPRs), withdrawals, and forgivenesses of students in several categories. (The foregiveness policy permits a student to repeat a course and have that grade computed…

A longitudinal study of full- and part-time students was undertaken at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) to provide institutional data about student performance over time. Each fall from 1967 to 1980, transcripts of a random sample of 200 full-time and 200 part-time beginning credit students were analyzed to obtain data about students'…

A study was conducted at Bronx Community College (BCC) to compare the academic performance and retention rates of regularly enrolled students with that of Hispanic students involved in the College Discovery (CD) program, which offers academic, career, and personal counseling. The performance of 41 CD students who were enrolled in English as a…

The validity of American College Testing (ACT) scores and self-reported high school grades in predicting college freshman grade average is documented, and the accuracy of prediction equations based on these measures is reported for institutions of differing freshman class size, affiliation, degree level, and racial/ethnic composition. Results are…