Report on the relationship between college performance and professional achievement, presented to the 8th Annual Conference of Liberal Arts College Presidents, Dearborn, Michigan, December 7, 1970. (Editor)

No significant relationships were found between creativity and grade point average. (AG)

Data showed that (a) it is possible to design programs that result in statistically significant differences in mean GPA by group and in level of knowledge about a campus, and (b) voluntary withdrawal and academic dismissal are not affected by orientation programs. (Author)

Intellective and nonintellective predictors and criteria were studied among 687 community college students. College grades were highly predictable from high school grades and intellective tests, nonintellective criteria were independent of this criteria and were unpredittable. Where educational and vocational plans and experiences were…

A previous study by Edwards and Waters (1982) was replicated and extended by incorporating a personal needs/college climate discrepancy index and a voluntary/nonvoluntary attrition breakdown. The use of undifferentiated, nonvoluntary, and voluntary attrition criteria yielded substantially different results in both the predictors of attrition and…

The perceptions of a representative sample of GRE test takers who were asked to indicate their views of the importance of eight factors in graduate admissions were examined. Candidates perceived undergraduate grades as the most important factor in graduate admissions, followed by recommendations and test scores. (Author/MLW)

The concurrent validity of Quality of Effort scales and background items from the College Student Experiences (CSE) questionnaire was estimated relative to criterion variables from the same CSE instrument that represented perceptions by students of grades earned to data and growth in selected cognitive and affective dimensions. (Author/PN)

Research among Black adolescent boys found that: (1) those whose fathers were present in the home had higher and more positive self-concepts than those whose fathers were absent; and (2) self-concept and grade point average were significantly related for the father-present group. (Author/MJL)

The nature and extent of drug use on an urban community college campus and the relationship between drug use and academic success were examined. Results of the investigation clearly indicate that there is no significant relationship between drug use and academic achievement at the college from which the sample was drawn. (JN)

Errors in self-reports of three academic performance measures are analyzed. Empirical errors are shown to depart radically from both no-error and random-error assumptions. Self-reports by females depart farther from the no-error and random-error models for all three performance measures. (Author/BW)

Study results indicate that there is a relationship between grade point average and performance on the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Licensure Examination (NABPLEX); that the relationship exists for graduates from different colleges; and that performance on NABPLEX by graduates from two different colleges is significantly different.…