The study reports on the first of several investigations into the antecedents and consequences of students' study activities across junior high school through college years. The development and validation of a self-report instrument, the "California Study Activities Inventory" (CSAI) is described. The principal features of the instrument…

Research on college students' study skills and habits and on secondary-level course organization suggest certain patterns of instructor demand (workload, test difficulty, latitude for self-direction) and compensations (test review practices, test item overlap with instructor handouts, "safety nets") may account for student study deficiencies, and…

For the past two years a survey has been conducted of over 20 junior high school, high school, and college social science courses in order to describe the interrelationships among a number of factors believed to related to classroom achievement. These factors include age and grade level, academic ability, self-concept, personality, and…