An evaluation of an informatics program was based on students' academic success from 1973 to 1979. Four main influences in the course's success were analyzed: curriculum development, qualifications of students applying for the highly mathematical course, increase in faculty, and correlation of curriculum and student qualifications. (Author/MSE)

An Oregon state study examined whether retention and graduation rates experienced by Basic Educational Opportunity Grant students were significantly different than those of students who did not receive financial aid. The grant program is seen as effective in promoting equality of educational opportunity. (MLW)

Examines the methods and findings of a longitudinal assessment of an Upward Bound program's successes in increasing college attendance and academic achievement among 56 ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders. Reveals no significant gains in reading or spelling, but significant achievements in language arts and quantitative skills. (Author/DMM)

Written language performance of 16 11th-grade students differed significantly from their fifth grade performance. Few differences occurred between teachers and eleventh grade students for total amounts of linguistic information used. (CM)

Conducted a follow-up study of (N=391) women six years after they entered college. Results found their attitudes toward women's roles were liberal; since high school, they had considered an average of nine occupations, with traditional choices continuing in popularity but being joined by more nontraditonal choices. (Author)

Data from a longitudinal study of Jefferson Medical College graduates were analyzed to determine levels of clinical competence in the first postgraduate year and relationships between postgraduate ratings and performance during medical school. It is concluded that in a substantial number of cases good and poor performance in the first postgraduate…

A study of achievement and variables of ability, attitudes, and personality is discussed. Junior high school students were tested in their third year and again in the fourth using the Crandall Internalised Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire. Results show that pupil locus of control and beliefs about intellectual achievement responsibility…

Investigates ego development in 32 lower-class and lower-middle class Black students at the sixth and twelfth grade levels. Ego development was measured by the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WU-SCT). (Author/SS)

Describes changes in cultural and psychological attitudes in Europe since World War II. Attitudes during the first phase of the postwar period are characterized by the return of positivism and a significant drop in ideological intensity. After 1960, European countries experienced an era of political activism, accelerated social change, and…

Surveys of students and alumni are viewed as helpful by accrediting teams, college recruiters, career counseling and placement officers, current and prospective students, etc. Only in large-scale national surveys like Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) is there potential for individual colleges to utilize data for their own…

A ten-year study demonstrates the socializing effects of work and identifies facets of work that have major importance for occupational value change. Work autonomy and income are especially significant. Also, occupational reward values in the senior year of college are predictive of work experience ten years later. (Author/KC)

Studied the extent to which memory and processing speed accounted for relations between infant information processing and childhood IQ. Found that the relationship of 7-month visual recognition memory and 1-year cross-modal transfer to 11-year IQ were reduced when statistically controlled for factors derived from these measures, suggesting that…

Studied relationships among physical and sexual abuse in family of origin, participation in deviant subsistence strategies, and victimization in 108 runaway and homeless adolescents in four Midwestern states. Path analysis indicated that abusive family backgrounds directly affected adolescent victimization and indirectly increased likelihood of…

Investigated the causation hypothesis (unemployment leads to poor mental health), and the selection hypothesis (poor mental health reduces employment) in a longitudinal study of 635 college graduates and 767 school leavers. Results confirmed the causation hypothesis for school-leavers but not college graduates. Employment and further education…

Tennessee's Project STAR (Student Teacher Achievement Ratio), a large longitudinal project involving students in kindergarten through third grade, has provided important information about class-size effects on pupil achievement and development. The project showed that small classes provided higher student outcomes and better student behaviors than…