The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a correlation between a high school student's score on the Tests of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP) and the same student's score on the Georgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT) in the area of mathematics. Student test scores were secured from 182 students at a middle Georgia high school…

For this study, nine mental factors were selected from Guilford's structure of intellect model, and eight interest factors identified from a factor analysis of the Thinking Interest Survey. These factors were then treated as dependent variables in the assessment of two methods of teaching algebra to 244 college students. Students were assigned to…