The gains in accuracy resulting from applying any of the smoothing methods appear sufficient to justify the suggestion that all expectancy tables used by colleges for admission, guidance, or planning purposes should be smoothed. These methods on the average, reduce the criterion measure (an index of inaccuracy) by 30 percent. (Author/MV)

This document highlights some of the aspects surrounding students at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) who are receiving Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF), or are welfare recipients. CCSF receives funding to provide education, training, and support to TANF students referred to the college by the Department of Human Services (DHS). Two…

This study focuses on determining the relationship between communication apprehension and factors of student success for first-semester community college students. It specifically examined the relationship between levels of students' communication apprehension as determined by the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension, and indicators of…

This study was designed to examine questions about the validity and utility of two commonly used predictors of academic success in law school, the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score and the undergraduate grade point average (UGPA), when the criterion measure is grade point average at the completion of law school (LGPA). The study also examined…

In reaction to the "Hopwood v. Texas" decision, which declared the use of race in college admissions illegal, Texas created a percentage plan that guaranteed admission to students who graduate within a specified percentile of their high school class. Under the Texas plan, any student graduating in the top 10% of his or her high school…

This study investigated whether gender-based differences in psychological adjustment, coping, racial identity, and grade point average (GPA) existed among 100 at-risk, urban, African American high school students. Students completed the Affects Balance Scale, Adolescent Coping Orientation for Problem Experiences, and Black Racial Identity Scale.…

This study investigated whether a particular grade in school would prove to be critical in the development of underachievement in 100 high school students identified as intellectually gifted, where 18 of the students were identified as underachieving. Data were collected on each student, including IQ scores, age identified as gifted, gender, final…

Factors influencing the achievement and retention of ethnic minority students were studied, focusing on 38 ethnic minority students in a college engineering program. Of the 38 students, 12 were African American, and 26 were Hispanic of Mexican American origin. Students were participants in the university's Equal Opportunity in Engineering program,…

Even though research on academic self-regulation has proliferated in recent years, no studies have investigated the question of whether the perceived usefulness and the use of standard self-regulated learning strategies and compensation strategies provide a differential prediction of academic achievement for college students with and without…

Using multilevel modeling to analyze survey data from 1,532 alumni from a large research university, this study proposes to examine the impact that departments have on student satisfaction. Controlling for individual characteristics, researchers found that characteristics of departments such as size, faculty contact with students, research…

Presents suggestions for community colleges to consider in developing admissions policies for transfer students. (RK)

The three in-school success measures used for the model was overall GPA, shop grade, and proficiency score on Ohio Trade and Industrial Education Achievement Test. A relationship between the predictor variables and the criteria in terms of time was found with predictiveness increasing from ninth to eleventh grade. (MS)

Focus of this investigation was to suggest that dissonance between an individual's needs and his perceptions of the environment is related to anxiety, alienation and discrepant GPA (grade point average). (Authors/MB)

The client's perception of the comfort of the counselor in a group setting is significantly related to counselor effectiveness as measured by GPA change. The overall counseling climate and the client's estimate of his satisfaction were not related to counselor effectiveness. (Author)