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Course Taking and Achievement: Findings and Implications for Curricular Policy.
Sebring, Penny A. – 1984
To investigate how the number of years students spend studying academic subjects affects their achievement, this study compiled data from a nationwide longitudinal study of 58,000 high school students begun in 1980, and from 1982 College Board testing files. Years of instruction in seven subject areas were related, using statewide averages, to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations