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Download full textLUNNEBORG, CLIFFORD E.; LUNNEBORG, PATRICIA W. – 1967
A TECHNIQUE OF PATTERN ANALYSIS WHICH EMPHASIZES THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORE EFFECTIVE WAYS OF SCORING A GIVEN SET OF VARIABLES WAS FORMULATED. TO THE ORIGINAL VARIABLES WERE SUCCESSIVELY ADDED TWO, THREE, AND FOUR VARIABLE PATTERNS AND THE INCREASE IN PREDICTIVE EFFICIENCY ASSESSED. RANDOMLY SELECTED HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS WHO HAD PARTICIPATED IN THE…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations
PIERSON, ROBERT A. – 1966
TO DETERMINE WHETHER ARBITRARY GRADE-POINT AVERAGE CUT-OFF POINTS (E.G. 2.25) FOR ENTRANCE INTO TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE UNFAIR TO PRESENT-DAY STUDENTS, NINETY 1966 COLLEGE SOPHOMORES WITH FRESHMAN-YEAR GPA'S BETWEEN 2.00 AND 2.09 WERE COMPARED TO THE SAME NUMBER OF 1961 SOPHOMORES WITH FRESHMAN-YEAR GPA'S BETWEEN 2.25 AND 2.34 USING (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, Class Average
SAW, J.G. – 1964
THIS PAPER DEALS WITH SOME TESTS OF HYPOTHESIS FREQUENTLY ENCOUNTERED IN THE ANALYSIS OF MULTIVARIATE DATA. THE TYPE OF HYPOTHESIS CONSIDERED IS THAT WHICH THE STATISTICIAN CAN ANSWER IN THE NEGATIVE OR AFFIRMATIVE. THE DOOLITTLE METHOD MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO EVALUATE THE DETERMINANT OF A MATRIX OF HIGH ORDER, TO SOLVE A MATRIX EQUATION, OR TO…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Classification, Data Analysis, Hypothesis Testing
NIELSEN, MARJORIE L. – 1967
THE GUIDANCE MANUAL HAS BEEN ORGANIZED TO PROVIDE A STATISTICAL BASIS FOR ANALYZING (1) THE NONSELECTIVE ADMISSION POLICY, (2) THE PERFORMANCE OF NATIVE, EVERETT JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO TRANSFER TO 4-YEAR COLLEGES, (3) THE PERFORMANCE OF TRANSFER STUDENTS TO THE JUNIOR COLLEGE WHO LATER ENROLL AT A 4-YEAR COLLEGE, (4) THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Students, Counseling
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education. – 1966
THIS SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINS MATERIALS ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF READING ABILITY AND READING INSTRUCTION. UNANNOTATED REFERENCES ARE PROVIDED TO 110 DOCUMENTS DATING MAINLY FROM 1960 TO 1966. RESEARCH REPORTS, JOURNAL ARTICLES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, AND UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS ARE LISTED. SUBJECT AREAS INCLUDED ARE (1) BASAL READING, (2) THE…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Bibliographies, Initial Teaching Alphabet
DYKSTRA, ROBERT – 1966
THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PREREADING MEASURES OF AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION AND READING ACHIEVEMENT AT THE END OF FIRST GRADE ARE REPORTED. DATA WERE GATHERED ON 632 PUPILS IN THE MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS WHO WERE ADMINISTERED SEVEN TESTS OF AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION SELECTED FROM PUBLISHED READING READINESS TESTS AND A GROUP INTELLIGENCE TEST AT THE…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
CLINE, VICTOR B.; AND OTHERS – 1963
A RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT WAS MADE OF A SELF-REPORTING INSTRUMENT WITH RESPECT TO ITS PREDICTIVE VALIDITY FOR SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT. THE PURPOSES WERE TO DETERMINE IF--(1) SELF-COMPILED BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF ONE'S ACTUAL EARLY EXPERIENCES, (2) SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT DEPENDS ON ONE'S SPECIFIC EARLY EXPERIENCES OR ON THE ENVIRONMENT IN…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Biographies
Drugan, Cornelius B. – 1980
Behaviors important to success of students enrolled in programs for the educable mentally retarded were investigated with 30 Ss. Hypotheses stated that those behaviors described by the Fourteen Persistent Life Problems (PLPs) and deemed important to academic success of the EMR would correlate significantly with standardized measures of reading…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education
Institute for Services to Education, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1979
This study examined the predictive strength of standardized test scores and selected non-traditional indices of academic success in relation to the academic performance of black students attending historically black colleges. The sample consisted of 364 graduating seniors from eleven historically black colleges. American College Test composite…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Admission Criteria, Black Colleges
PDF pending restorationKinard, Frank E.; Krech, Alan S. – 1977
Two methods were used to project college and university enrollment in South Carolina: the age ratio method, which correlates college attendance with the population of traditional college age; and the cohort survival method, using historical data on the progression of students from high school to and through college. The projections indicate that…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Students, Demography, Enrollment Projections
Barrett, Gerald V.; And Others – 1977
The relative contribution of motivation to ability measures in predicting performance criteria of sales personnel from successive fiscal periods was investigated. In this context, the merits of a multiplicative and additive combination of motivation and ability measures were examined. The relationship between satisfaction and motivation and…
Descriptors: Ability, Field Studies, Job Satisfaction, Longitudinal Studies
Jones, Gerald L.; Westen, Risdon J. – 1979
The multivariate approach of canonical correlation was used to assess selection procedures of the Air Force Academy. It was felt that improved student selection methods might reduce the number of dropouts while maintaining or improving the quality of graduates. The method of canonical correlation was designed to maximize prediction of academic…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Admission Criteria, Conference Reports, Grade Point Average
SPOHN, CHARLES L.; WHITNEY, D. RANSOM – 1968
THERE IS A DICHOTOMY WHICH EXISTS IN EDUCATION AND--IN PARTICULAR, IN THE DOMAIN OF MUSIC LEARNING--IN THE ASSUMPTION THAT INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN LEARNING ARE MET IN A LARGE GROUP-INSTRUCTION PROGRAM. THE MAIN OBJECTIVE IN THE RESEARCH WAS TO TEST AND TO EVALUATE A CLINICAL TYPE OF INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM BASED ON INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN SUCH A…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Technology, Individual Differences, Large Group Instruction
Brown, Don A.; Newman, Anabel P. – 1968
This study involving 207 adult city-core illiterates from Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York, reading below third grade level, examined (a) educational characteristics and abilities of adult illiterates important to the improvement of reading materials and programs; (b) a study of the use of i.t.a. with adult-centered materials paced to adult…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Illiteracy, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Inner City
Baker, Robert L. – 1968
Single-score measures of intelligence are inadequate to predict performance on a programed instruction format. Guilford's model of the intellect accounts for three dimensions relevant to learner abilities. The content dimension refers to the kind of material involved, the product dimension to the kind of output required, and the process dimension…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Instructional Design, Learning Theories
