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Peer reviewedWollman, Warren; Lawrenz, Frances – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1984
Investigated whether dropouts and other students having difficulty with physics could be identified by including mathematics reasoning items along with mathematics skill items on a 13-item mathematics pretest and by using records of past performance in conjunction with the pretest. Sample included 483 students in an introductory, noncalculus,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, College Science
