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Harpole, Sandra; Gifford, Vernon – 1985
This study was conducted to relate personal, cognitive, and school variables to physics achievement. The sample consisted of 435 students participating in the 1985 Mississippi State University Annual Physics Competition. The Student Background Questionnaire was planned and developed to collect information on each variable examined. The predictor…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, High Schools, Instructional Improvement, Performance Factors
Download full textMcLure, Gail T.; McLure, John W. – 2000
The relationships among students' scores on the American College Test (ACT) Science Reasoning test, their science course work in high school, and their out-of-class accomplishments in science were studied. Data were from nearly one million ACT-tested students in the high school graduating class of 1998. Analyses were done for the total group of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Course Selection (Students), Extracurricular Activities
McLure, Gail T.; Sun, Anji; Valiga, Michael J. – 1997
This study investigated changes between 1987 and 1996 in the proportions of ACT-tested students taking or planning to take high school mathematics and science courses prior to high school graduation. The changes in course-taking patterns among racial/ethnic and gender subgroups were also compared. The seven courses studied were Algebra II,…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), Cultural Differences, Ethnicity, High School Students
Schiel, Jeff; And Others – 1996
This study focused on the relationship between high school students' course-taking patterns and their achievement of higher-order thinking skills. PLAN scores (in grade 10) and ACT Assessment scores (in grades 11 or 12) were collected for 73,818 students in 1,174 high schools. The findings show that, in a typical high school, eleventh- and…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Course Selection (Students), Educational Attainment, Ethnicity
