One of the most important purposes of a college is the development of the intellectual nature of its students. It appears that US Catholic colleges and fundamentalist Protestant colleges (representing Pentecostal, Baptist, and Lutheran sects) have failed to produce students who possess intellectual attitudes. In the case of the Catholics, students…

Pre-selection criteria were developed to obtain a profile of student nurses who would compute a community college nursing program, and student nurses who would leave the program prior to completion. The battery consisted of tests and questionnaires based upon cognitive, personality/attitude, vocational preference, and socioeconomic status domains.…

During the past year and a half, the University of Toledo has developed a competency-based model for teacher education, the basic elements of which are (a) the explicit statement of performance objectives, (b) one or more sets of instructional procedures specifically designed for attainment of each objective, and (c) criterion-referenced…

Job enrichment rapidly is becoming one of the most widely used behavioral science strategies for organizational change. And there is scattered but compelling evidence that, under certain conditions, the technique can lead simultaneously to both improved productivity and an increase in the quality of employee work experiences. Yet observations of…

Faculty, administrators, ID staff, and graduate students involved in instructional development within higher education generated and ranked factors instrumental in the successful operation of Instructional Development Centers (IDC). Twenty factors were selected, then rated in order of perceived importance and ability to be manipulated by the…

Baseline data on change in reading achievement over summer vacation in the absence of summer school were obtained for two groups of middle-class children. The Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT) and the reading comprehension subtest of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills were administered in May to 172 third graders and 207 seventh graders. An alternate form…

The effectiveness of personal attention from reading teachers in increasing student attendance and scholastic achievement was investigated in a study of 98 students in 15 New York City high schools which receive Title I, and New York State, funding for remedial reading. Each of 49 remedial reading teachers initiated a relationship with a randomly…

The "Trouble Shooting" Checklist (TSC) for Higher Educational Settings has been developed to assist educational change agents, faculty, and administrators concerned with change, in their assessment of organizational variables predictive of a department's potential for successfully adopting innovations. The higher educational based TSC is both…

A scale to measure fear of women's success (SASWS) modeled after the Situational Attitude Scale (SAS) was administered to 59 upperclass students (33 females, 26 males). Results indicate that both men and women feel that male success is more expected and believable in our society. However, the hypothesis that women show a greater tendency to avoid…

Grades, persistence, and academic learning have traditionally been criteria for college success. However, as a result of the increased interest during the last decade in exploring the use of nonintellective variables for academic prediction, nonintellective instruments for this purpose have been developed that are more refined than those…

The purpose of this paper was to assess the relative contribution of family background and school contextual factors to the explanation of variance in self-concept among high school students and to evaluate the effect of self-concept on subsequent student achievement performance. Data for the project was gathered from a three-year study of the…

The effects of dropping out of the University of Washington on an individual's later life style were investigated by means of an eight page questionnaire responded to by 94 members of the class of 1966. Differences due to ability and sex as well as graduation versus dropout were investigated. Differences are reported in leisure time activities,…

In the spring of 1969 over 6,000 students in grades four through six responded to a 72 item questionnaire. Of the 72, 11 include responses which suggest possible alienation of this age group. Each school's pupils produced a unique pattern of responses to the 11 items, which suggests that the immediate school environment is one contributing factor…

This study assesses the social intelligence component using the Friendship Rating Scale. In a cohesive fifth grade class, peer acceptance was found to covary with academic achievement at the same magnitude that such achievement related with measured intelligence. Self ratings were not as efficient as peer ratings in the prediction of academic…

The objective was to investigate the factors which influence the upward movement of skilled craftsmen within the firm. Particular attention was directed to the importance of apprenticeship training in causing intrafirm upgrading; that is: were apprentice-trained craftsmen more inclined to be promoted than nonapprentice-trained craftsmen. Observed…