The purpose of this report is to provide information and analysis about the extent to which the experience of a group of minority students who successfully completed the doctorate might be relevant to the issues now under consideration in the Bakke case. The Ford Foundation and Danforth Foundation programs are examined in an attempt to produce…

Information provided by the University of California (UC) is used each year to assess the academic performance of those students who transferred to UC from Los Angeles City College (LACC). While no student-specific information has been provided in recent years, due to UC's compliance with the Buckley Amendment, the data illustrate the comparative…

Freshmen placed into the second or third quarter of the first year calculus sequence at the University of Washington were studied. Two major findings were: freshmen eligible for advanced placement earned mean mathematics Grade Point Averages (GPAs) which were quite high; and advanced placement students earned mean mathematics GPAs substantially…

WHILE ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO CONSTRUCT MEASURES WHICH HAVE VALIDITY FOR PREDICTING ACADEMIC SUCCESS IN COLLEGE, MOST OF THESE TESTS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED FOR NATIONWIDE TESTING PROGRAMS AND MAY NOT BE AS COMPLETELY VALID FOR MEASURING THE APTITUDE OF MINORITY GROUP HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO HAVE RESTRICTED ENVIRONMENTAL BACKGROUNDS. TO TEST THE…

A SAMPLE OF 363 FULL-TIME ENROLLEES IN FOUR CURRICULUMS (AUTOMOTIVE, DRAFTING, ELECTRICAL, AND MACHINE SHOP) AT WILLIAM HOOD DUNWOODY INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE WAS SELECTED TO TEST THE "PREVOCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS" OF SENIOR HIGH INDUSTRIAL ARTS. THIRTY-FIVE VARIABLES WERE USED IN MEASURING THE EFFECT OF THE FOLLOWING ON ACADEMIC…

The academic performance and aspirations of first-time entering Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS) students in Fall 1973 were compared to those of all other first-time entering day students at San Jose City College using data from student records. Findings indicated that while 62% of all other students stated that an associate…

TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (SES) AND MEASURES OF ACADEMIC MOTIVATION, APTITUDE, AND ACHIEVEMENT, A SAMPLE OF 4,200 11TH-GRADE CAUCASIAN STUDENTS FROM NINE MICHIGAN HIGH SCHOOLS WAS STUDIED. THE EXPERIMENT TESTED TWO NULL HYPOTHESES--(1) THERE IS NO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SES AND AN OBJECTIVE MEASURE OF MOTIVATION, AND…

To assess the non-academic accomplishments of college students more broadly than do grades, a questionnaire having 12 scales was designed and administered to 3147 freshmen, 5127 sophomores, and 1566 seniors in a variety of colleges. The scales measured achievement, as determined by the students themselves, in leadership, social participation, the…

Nine groups of undergraduate students were formed on the basis of one-third splits of the distributions of their scores on an internality-externality measure and on an achievement motive measure. Academic performance was measured by obtaining grade point averages for all subjects. Analysis of variance showed that internal students made higher…

The first semester college performances of 170 students who had received a G.E.D. high school certificate were examined. In addition, the usefulness of the G.E.D. for predicting college success during the first semester of enrollment was evaluated. A stepwise multiple regression procedure revealed that G.E.D. scores were not useful in predicting…

Employing similar variables, along with an assessment of the participation-aspiration hypothesis for athletes residing in rural Louisiana, a partial replication was attempted of previous studies of the athletic participation-aspiration relationship. A further extension of past studies was made by assessing the effects of selected predictor…

The potential use of High School Faculty Ratings for admission purposes is investigated. The ratings include the evaluations of a candidate on 10 traits and three overall characteristics. The rating forms are given to a mathematics, English, and physical education teacher, a counselor or high school principal, and one other faculty member by the…

The Kuder Richardson-20 Formula is shown to be a special case, where each examinee is given sufficient time to answer each item, of a more general formula where each examinee may not be allowed the necessary time. The formula is extended to allow two scores, knowledge and speed, to be extracted from each examinees test score. Using a sample of 82…

In order to examine the academic performance of graduates from Crowder College (Neosho, Missouri) who had transferred to Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU), the grade point averages of three different groups of SMSU students were compared: (1) Crowder College transfers; (2) their undergraduate contemporaries at SMSU; (3) the entire group…

The purpose of this study was to seek conclusive data for answering the following research question: To what extent can the attitudes of community colleges students be improved through the systematic application of commercially produced attitude change packages? Eight California community colleges conducted an experiment using a variety of…