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PDF pending restorationDoherty, Frank J.; Vaughan, George B. – 1984
A study was conducted to assess the academic performance of students who transferred from Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) to the University of Virginia (UVA), using information on student application and acceptance rates, test scores, grade point averages (GPA's), and graduation rates. Data supplied by UVA on 291 students who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission (School), College Graduates, College Transfer Students
Savage, Tom V. – 1984
Scores on standardized tests and high school grade point average are not always good predictors of the academic ability or potential success of students choosing to become teachers. An issue often overlooked when sampling the academic qualifications is the identification of students who are not education majors but who plan on becoming teachers.…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Career Choice, Education Majors, Grade Point Average
Download full textRadcliffe, Susan K. – 1984
A study was conducted at Howard Community College (HCC) to determine the performance of HCC students at transfer institutions. Four factors related to transfer success were examined: earning an associate degree at HCC; enrolling in a community college transfer program; length of time spent at HCC; and academic preparation and achievement at the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Degrees (Academic)
Hughes, Kevin R.; And Others – 1989
The purpose of this study was to provide evidence for adapting and generalizing the use of the Children's Academic Motivation Inventory (CAMI) to high school students. The instrument was originally developed to provide a reliable, valid, theory-based measure of academic achievement motivation; it was suitable for use with children aged 12-14…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Generalizability Theory, Grade Point Average
Kanarek, Ellen Armstrong – 1989
A study was conducted that focused on 5-year graduation as a criterion for success at a major Eastern university, and a set of predictors for use by those concerned with admissions policy was developed. The best predictors of 5-year graduation were persistence to the second year and first-year cumulative grade-point average. Among pre-college…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Admission, Demography, Dropouts
Anderson, Ernest F.; Polillo, Patricia J. – 1987
A study was conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to compare the academic progress of two-year college transfers, senior college transfers, and continuing juniors (natives) at UIUC as measured by mean grade point average (GPA), academic status, and continued enrollment through 2 years after transfer. Study findings,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Students, College Transfer Students
Barger, Josephine C.; And Others – 1988
All graduates of Eastern Illinois University from 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1986 (n=9687) were compared on high school predictor scores (American College Testing--ACTs--and class ranks) and university grade point averages (GPA)--cumulative GPA, junior and senior GPA, and junior and senior GPA adjusted by removing professional education courses.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Teachers, Comparative Analysis, Education Majors
Eiszler, Charles F. – 1982
The "Perceptual Preferences" section of the Learning Styles Questionnaire (Dunn and Dunn, 1975) was administered to 170 ninth grade students with self-reported measures of self-esteem, general affect, and achievement (i.e., grade-point average). Data were analyzed to determine if modality preferences are a significant component of student learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Cognitive Style, Grade Point Average
PDF pending restorationZimmerman, Woodford W. – 1981
The phenomenon of transfer shock has been cited in the literature to refer to students' tendency to receive lower course grades at the four-year institution than at the two-year college, especially in the first and second terms of residency. Records of 331 former Ohio State University, Lima (OSU Lima) students were analyzed to determine the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Transfer Students, Enrollment Trends, Grade Point Average
A Comparison of Grades, GPA, and Retention of Developmental Students at Northwest Technical College.
Suter, Marcia A. – 1983
A study was conducted to compare the academic success of students who completed developmental education courses at Northwest Technical College with that of students who did not take such courses, but whose placement test scores indicated that they should. Subjects of the study were selected from 499 students who were advised, based on their test…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Developmental Studies Programs, Grade Point Average, Grades (Scholastic)
Young, Frank Howard – 1982
A study was conducted to assess the academic performance of San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCD) students after transfer to a University of California (UC) or California State University (CSU) campus; to compare study results with previous research on College of San Mateo transfer students; and to determine the variables most…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Graduates, College Students, College Transfer Students
Peer reviewedCohen, Arthur M. – Change, 1975
Noting that junior college institutional research is being affected by two major influences--changing student populations and information demands of state and federal agencies--the author suggests specific questions for research important to college operations and emphasizes the need to reconcile the frequently contradictory internal and external…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Government Role
Berdie, Ralph F. – Educ Psychol Meas, 1969
Research supported by U.S. Office of Education Contract OEC-3-7-068694-2082
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Aptitude Tests, Behavior Patterns
Myers, Albert E. – J Spec Ed, 1969
Descriptors: Attendance, Black Attitudes, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Rate
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. Kapiolani Community Coll. – 1981
Two multiple regression analyses were conducted by Kapiolani Community College (KCC) to determine if selected characteristics of first-time students could be used in a predictive equation to identify potential dropouts. Correlations were determined between two dependent and 21 independent variables. The dependent variables were the achievement of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Dropout Research
