Focuses on teachers placement and discusses employer attitudes toward the importance of prospective employees' grades. Results indicate grades are of less importance than professional and/or training references. (Author/HMV)

The draft report describes a study to identify the cognitive skills related to academic performance in five career areas and 19 academic majors at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and to compare skill profile differences among groups of students (N=1,047) in the various career areas and academic majors. Results of a battery of tests…

TO DETERMINE THE POSSIBILITY OF IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF PREDICTING FIRST QUARTER GRADE POINT AVERAGES FOR ENTERING FRESHMEN AT CLARK COLLEGE, REGRESSION ANALYSIS WAS USED TO ESTABLISH EQUATIONS FOR PREDICTING GRADE AVERAGES FROM SCORES EARNED IN THE WASHINGTON PRE-COLLEGE TESTING PROGRAM. PREVIOUS PREDICTION HAD BEEN BASED ON FORMULAS DERIVED…

THIS 1967 STUDY AT LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE (LCCC) WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DISCOVER (1) THE PERCENTAGE OF CREDIT HOURS IN A UNIVERSITY PARALLEL PROGRAM ACCEPTED BY TRANSFER INSTITUTIONS, (2) THE STUDENT'S GPA BEFORE AND AFTER TRANSFER, AND (3) HOW MANY COLLEGES ACCEPTED LCCC'S TRANSFERS. INSTITUTIONS TO WHICH LCCC STUDENTS HAD HAD THEIR…

THIS REPORT DESCRIBES WAYS OF ASSESSING CHANGES IN PUPIL ATTITUDE AND MORALE. REVIEWS OF PREVIOUS MEASURES OF SCHOOL MORALE ARE INCLUDED. THE DIMENSIONS OF THE SCHOOL MORALE SCALE ARE--(1) MORALE ABOUT THE SCHOOL BUILDING, QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION AND MATERIALS, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL AND REGULATIONS, COMMUNITY AND PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT, AND…

This study sought to find any difference between students' GPA at College of San Mateo and at 4-year institutions, to identify different characteristics among transfers and their relationship to academic performance, and to assess any relation between performance at a 4-year institution and choice of major in junior college. First-time transfers…

It was hypothesized that students living in campus dormitories would have a significantly higher grade point average than students commuting to colleges. The population used in the study consisted of freshman students completing their first academic year during the spring of 1976, 1977, and 1978. The means of the grade point averages for each year…

This study tried to determine whether (1) the ACT composite score, (2) high school percentile rank (HSPR), or (3) a combination of these were good predictors of academic success in college for the marginal student. The marginal student was defined as one not meeting standard admission requirements, but one whose ACT scores indicated some…

To determine how well certain factors would predict academic achievement, 97 freshmen and 48 sophomores, all full-time 1968-69 students, were tested. The factors were (1) high school GPA, (2) American College Testing (ACT) English test, (3) ACT math portion, (4) ACT social studies portion, (5) ACT natural science portion. The criterion of…

Underlining as a study aid for college students has only recently been considered important in the hierarchy of study skills. A review of statements and studies concerning underlining leads off this study of the extent to which underlining was employed by college students in two education courses at Northern Illinois University and the…

One of the most compelling arguments marshalled against the use of marijuana is that it will instill in the user an amotivational syndrome. A December 1970 Gallup Poll indicated that in a roughly random sample of college students, 42 percent had tried marijuana at least once, double the figure of spring 1969, and a figure that is terrifying…

The Graduate College at Stout State University commonly employs two criteria in deciding which applicants should be permitted to enroll for graduate degree programs: cumulative undergraduate grade-point average and experience. It was the purpose of this study to determine the effectiveness of these two criteria in predicting the likelihood of…

A study was conducted on the use of audiotape and videotape self-confrontation techniques in training speech and hearing therapy clinicians. The dissemination phase of the study consisted of a conference held in October, 1970 at the University of Denver entitled "Videotape and Audiotape Confrontation in Clinical Training." The findings and…

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of entrance examination scores, used for placement, on grading practices of teachers at Antelope Valley College (California). Correlations between students' GPA and their entrance exam scores were calculated. These were compared with correlations between grades given by 10 instructors and the…