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Download full textBoggs, George R. – 1984
A study was conducted at Butte College to determine the effectiveness of the college's assessment and placement program. Between January 1981 and summer 1982, the Nelson-Denny Reading Test and a writing sample were used in placement; while after summer 1982, the Stanford Task Tests of English and Reading Abilities were used. The primary file of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Educational Diagnosis, English Instruction
Wesche, Lilburn E.; And Others – 1984
In 1986, Seattle (Washington) Pacific University (SPU) chose to research the relationship of students' entering grade point average (EGPA) and scores on the Miller Analogies Test (MAT) and Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) to students' GPA achieved while attending SPU's graduate school (GGPA). Subjects were 350 students admitted from 1973 through…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Education Majors, Grade Point Average
Smick, Regina A.; Camp, William G. – 1988
A study examined the impact of vocational education enrollment on the occupational aspirations of high school students, after correcting for the effects of other variables that also affect those aspirations. The data used for the study were collected in the High School and Beyond Sophomore Cohort study, second follow-up, when former students were…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Family Influence, Females, Grade Point Average
Bland, Vivian; And Others – 1987
In the spring semester of 1984, 45 full-time second semester freshmen at the University of Maryland, College Park whose first semester grade point averages were less than 2.0 and who had not yet declared a major participated in a modified replication of a diagnostic and prescriptive interview program. By means of one (N=25) or two (N=20)…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Failure, College Freshmen, College Programs
Holmstrom, Engin Inel – 1985
This report describes changes that have taken place between 1980-81 and 1984-85 affecting admission/graduation requirements and recruitment efforts in teacher education programs. Specifically the survey requested information on: (1) specific requirements for admittance into teacher preparation programs; (2) changes in credit hour requirements over…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission Criteria, Degree Requirements, Grade Point Average
Shaughnessy, Michael F.; Evans, Robert – 1985
While the prediction of college grade point average (GPA) has been extensively investigated, research results seem inconclusive. Recent developments in the realm of intelligence have emphasized word knowledge and world knowledge. These two components were investigated relative to college GPA in a group of elementary and secondary student teachers…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Students, Grade Point Average, High Schools
Wirtz, Philip W.; And Others – 1987
Recent research links intense (more than 20 hours per week) part-time employment of high school students with lower grade point averages. This study questions students' awareness of such findings. A sample of 446 college-oriented high school students who hold jobs in fast food restaurants were studied. The findings confirmed the negative…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, High School Students, High Schools
Adams, E. W.; Habtemariam, T. – 1982
The extent to which Veterinary Aptitude Test (VAT) scores are valid predictors of veterinary student performance and the effect of a summer enrichment program were assessed for Tuskegee Institute and Auburn University students. In addition, attention was directed to predictors of specialty choices and patterns of specialty choices and employment…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Employment Experience, Grade Point Average
Sawyer, Richard – 1984
The American College Testing (ACT) Program offers research services through which colleges can predict the freshman grades of their future students. This paper describes research done to establish a minimum sample size requirement for calculating least-squares prediction equations for college freshman grade average. Prediction equations were…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, Grade Point Average, Grade Prediction
Kingston, Neal M. – 1985
The incremental validity of the analytical measure of the revised Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test, for predicting first-year graduate grade-point average (GPA), was assessed using data submitted to the GRE Validity Study Service between March 1983 and November 1984. All selected students had data for the three General Test measures…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Bayesian Statistics, College Entrance Examinations, Grade Point Average
Burke, Jack D.; and others – Educ Psychol Meas, 1969
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
Aronson, Nancy – 1980
This five-part report provides a compilation and analysis of data on student completion of courses at Mercer County Community College between summer 1979 and spring 1980. After an executive summary of findings, Part II provides background information on the study, which examined volume measures, such as credit hours, and success indicators, such…
Descriptors: College Credits, Community Colleges, Courses, Departments
Wakefield, Linda Morton; Bullock, Ronald G. – 1982
The academic performance of 501 Indiana University regional campus transfer students who enrolled on the Bloomington campus for the spring 1980 or fall 1981 semester was studied. Information is presented on the percentages of male and female transfer students at each of the campuses, and the percentages by class membership the first semester at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, College Transfer Students, Comparative Analysis
Swindling, James A. – 1981
A study was conducted at Eastfield College, Texas, to assess the impact of remedial reading instruction on the academic achievement of students with reading skill deficiencies. The study involved all students whose basic skills were assessed at Eastfield College and who received academic advisement between April 1978 and August 1978 (N=898). Of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Accountability, Dropouts
RICHARDS, JAMES M., JR.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THIS STUDY PREDICTED STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN COLLEGE AFTER COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND POTENTIAL IN HIGH SCHOOL. THE STUDENT SAMPLE OF 2,792 SOPHOMORES AND 1,095 FRESHMEN WAS OBTAINED FROM A FOLLOW-UP OF STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE AMERICAN COLLEGE SURVEY IN 1964 AND 1965, AND WHO HAD TAKEN THE AMERICAN COLLEGE TESTING…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, College Students, Colleges
