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Woehlke, Paula L. – 1991
Evaluation of the Attitudes Toward Statistics Scale (ATS) of S. L. Wise (1985) was extended by examining scale responses in relation to: (1) the scale's factor structure; and (2) the correlation of ATS subscale scores with students' grades in statistics courses at several levels of graduate study, students' sex, and scores on measures of basic…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Correlation, Doctoral Programs, Factor Analysis
Benton, Sidney E.; Jerrolds, Bob W. – 1983
Eighty-three students enrolled in five graduate sections of educational research taught by the same instructor were administered a reading attitude scale and an educational research attitude scale. Under-graduate grade point averages (GPAs), entering graduate GPAs, and composite National Teacher Examination (NTE) scores were also obtained for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Education Majors, Educational Research
Cabrera, Alberto F.; And Others – 1990
The study empirically examines the effects of economic and non-economic variables on college persistence by presenting a causal model that relies on both economic theory and V. Tinto's Student Integration Model in order to enhance an understanding of the role of finances on the college persistence process. Analyses conducted upon a sample of 466…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Economic Factors, Educational Economics, Higher Education
Sonnenberg, William; And Others – 1990
The Second Annual Federal Forecasters Conference, "Forecasting and Public Policy", provided a forum where forecasters from various Federal agencies could meet and discuss aspects of forecasting in the U.S. Government. A total of 140 forecasters from 42 Federal agencies and other organizations attended the conference. Opening remarks by…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Conference Proceedings, Decision Making, Educational Change
Brazziel, William F. – 1988
This paper examines the changing demographics of American society and the impact of these changes on higher education. Discussions include a historical background of early American demography, the building and expansion of the population base, and census changes through various generations of the baby boom years and beyond. Next, the report…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Baby Boomers, Birth Rate, Census Figures
Maryland State Board for Higher Education, Annapolis. – 1984
Alternatives for testing the achievement of college students in Maryland are reviewed by committee members appointed by the State Board for Higher Education and Maryland's public institutions of higher education. The achievement testing alternatives would be a means of assessing institutional effectiveness; all entail the use of tests currently in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Basic Skills, Cognitive Tests
Wood, Nancy V. – 1987
To help college reading teachers develop an awareness of what standardized reading tests do and do not reveal about students' reading abilities, a study examined the testing of reading and criticized four major standardized tests. Results indicated that reading is tested through (1) reading passages accompanied by multiple choice questions, (2)…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Educational Testing, Group Testing, Higher Education
Foundation for Knowledge in Development, Littleton, CO. – 1986
The study reported here sought to establish the predictive validity of the Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP), an instrument designed to identify preschool children at risk for school-related problems in the primary years. Children (N=338) in 11 states who were originally tested in 1980 as part of the MAP standardization project were given a…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Discriminant Analysis, Handicap Identification, High Risk Students
Asano, Mildred M. – 1986
The subsequent school progress of children who attended the Get Set Day Care (GSDC) or Prekindergarten Head Start (PKHS) preschool programs compared to peers who had a different type or no preschool experience is examined in this document. The study corroborates the two major findings of the Consortium for Longitudinal Studies: that preschool…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Day Care, Elementary Education, Followup Studies
Simmons, Johnny O. – 1985
This study examined the need to develop reliable and valid procedures for screening large populations for possible speech and language problems and the use of the Fluharty Preschool Speech and Language Screening Test (FPSLST) as such a device. The test was administered to 260 preschool children, ages three to six. There were 166 Blacks and 94…
Descriptors: Black Students, Comprehension, Correlation, Difficulty Level
Costantino, Giuseppe; And Others – 1985
The theoretical framework and cross-cultural validation of Tell-Me-A-Story (TEMAS), a projective test developed to measure personality development in ethnic minority children, is presented. The TEMAS test consists of 23 chromatic pictures which incorporate the following characteristics: (1) representation of antithetical concepts which the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Culture Fair Tests, Elementary Education, Hispanic Americans
Mandeville, Garrett K. – 1987
School effectiveness indices (SEIs) based on residuals from regressing test performance in reading and mathematics onto prior-year test performance and a socioeconomic status measure (percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch program) were obtained for two consecutive years for 431 South Carolina elementary schools. The analysis involved school…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Correlation, Elementary Education
Shaha, Steven H.; Wittrock, Merlin C. – 1983
During the last two decades of work in predicting and explaining school achievement, much research has emphasized the identification and measurement of student cognitive and affective processes which predict and also promise to help explain and facilitate school achievement. This review focuses on modifiable cognitive and affective processes, as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Affective Measures, Affective Objectives
Weeks, Joseph L. – 1981
The optimal allocation of Air Force talent requires, among other considerations, the measurement of both enlistee aptitudes and job aptitude requirements. Although objective procedures are available to measure aptitudes accurately, the procedure presently employed for establishing relative aptitude requirements is both unsystematic and subject to…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
Balz, Frank J. – 1982
The loss in selected federal student assistance programs in the states and by institutional control based on President Reagan's budget request for funding year 1983 is estimated. Funding levels for 1981-1982 for the campus-based programs (Special Education Opportunities Grant Program--SEOG, College Work-Study--CW-S, and the National Direct Student…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Federal Aid
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