Comparison of matriculated freshmen from 1988 and 1989 at the University of Washington found that those students participating in the Freshman Interest Group (200 students from 1988 and 435 students from 1989) were more likely to stay in a competitive course, had higher grade point averages, and were less likely to drop out of college than…

ANOVA and split sample regression analyzed the Graduate Management Aptitude Test scores and undergraduate grade point averages (GPA) of 86 business administration graduate students. Test scores and GPA did not discriminate adequately between moderately low and very low performers in graduate programs. They appeared to predict academic performance…

Analysis of records from 347 students who graduated, dropped out of, or were terminated from State University of New York-Buffalo's nursing program, 1983-92, showed that Graduate Record Examination scores correlated with first-year and overall grade point average but was a weaker predictor of graduate performance than undergraduate grade point…

Analysis of records of 50 first-year students in automotive technology identified American College Test (ACT) math score as a significant predictor of first-year performance. High school rank and composite ACT score were not significant predictors of college grade point average. (SK)

Examines the impact of an academic counseling approach implemented by counseling center staff for students in academic jeopardy. Undergraduate students (N=414) placed on academic warning and probation who received counseling demonstrated significantly greater increases in grade point average than did students who had not participated in…

Demonstrates and presents the program evaluation of one basic writing program. Studies four variables which are nominally rated: retention rate, current classification, grade point average, and writing-course sequence completed. Discusses how each contributes to the successful retention rate of basic-writing students studied. (SC)

Comparison of three learning indicators college grade-point average (GPA), student-reported growth, and Graduate Record Examination scores found: (1) student-reported cognitive growth survey items have a modest relative validity; (2) the attenuation associated with use of residual gain scores does not invalidate their use; and (3) GPA and…

Investigated differences between students on probation and students in good standing at one community college. Survey data indicated that more probation students worked, and worked full time, than nonprobation students. Students on probation tended to have lower high school grade point averages and to have children present in the household than…

Assessment of the academic self-concept of 32 physical therapy assistant students in a selective admission program revealed a positive correlation between grade point average in the core curriculum and their leadership and initiative scores. (Contains 20 references.) (SK)

This study sought to determine whether extroversion or introversion has anything to do with English-as-a-foreign-language learning and content-subject learning of Iranian non-English major postgraduates currently studying in the United Kingdom. Subjects were given the Persian form of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire twice and asked to report…

The relationship between expected grades and student evaluations of teaching (SET) has been controversial. The authors take another look at the controversy by employing class-specific observations and controlling for time-invariant instructor and course differences with a fixed-effects model. The authors' empirical results indicate that if an…

Some researchers have found that students who have obtained undergraduate degrees in business perform worse in MBA programs than do students without undergraduate business degrees. This study splits a sample of MBA graduates into two groups--those with and without BBA degrees. Separate regressions are run for each group to determine which factors…

First-year college students' expectations about "what college is like" do not always align with their actual experiences. This study examined 31 first-year students' social and academic expectations and compared those expectations with students' experiences at the middle and end of their first year of college. Paired t tests revealed…

Emotional intelligence has been popularly portrayed as critical to human success and sometimes even more important than IQ (e.g., D. Goleman, 1995), yet sparse evidence exists supporting such a claim. The purpose of this study was to measure emotional intelligence, as conceptualized by J. D. Mayer and P. Salovey (1997), in order to better…

A broad literature base on the instructional effectiveness of intensive and semester-length courses often fails to find significant differences between the formats. Of those studies that do find differences, most suggest that intensive courses are superior. However, many of the studies are theoretically or methodologically flawed, and none…