First-grade students were administered the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts (BTBC), then given 15 weeks of instruction relevant to concepts for which corresponding BTBC items were most frequently missed. Improvements in mid-year and end-of-year BTBC performance did not occur, but a significant treatment effect did occur on the Stanford Achievement…

The Visual Aural Digit Span and Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test were studied with regard to ability to discriminate low from average achievers in reading and arithmetic skills, as identified by the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. A sample of 78 normal children aged six through nine were administered tests. (Author)

The relative effects of positive reinforcement, response cost, and the two contingencies combined when used as contingencies for correct academic responses were compared on the dependent measures of accuracy of academic performance and level of on-task behavior. All three contingency systems increased academic performance and on-task behavior.…

Undergraduates given a self-concept scale, a sentence completion exercise, and story cues related to academic achievement generally expressed positive attitudes toward success; but students of both sexes with high self-esteem tended to associate success with a male, and those with lower self-esteem attributed success to a female. (Author)

This study investigates the effects of age, level of education, and institutionalization on the development of logical thinking. Seven Piagetian tasks, encompassing three levels of difficulty, were administered to 34 persons 68 years of age or older. A significant positive relationship was found between success on tasks and educational level.…

A study of 265 welfare mothers attending an urban community college found that not only were nearly three-fifths of the group academically successful, but that an older group of mothers (those over age 25) exhibited a high degree of potential for succeeding in and benefiting from college. (Author)

This article concerns a study of students who were admitted and registered in classes during late registration. These students were compared to a control group of students who were admitted and registered regularly. The study showed that the study group performed below the control group. (Author)

Chronicles the "biography" of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement: its emergence from a confederacy of research colleagues in the late 1950s to an "empire" to its present state as a collection of satrapies, each concerned with a particular research project. Traces the development of…

This study considered the relationship of the AACH Scale of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) to the attrition of a sample of college students from one institution. Results indicate that AACH scores accumulated over a five year period did not differentiate between college students who later graduated and those who did not. (Author)

This review presents findings of 31 treatment studies of college underachievers and bright failing underachievers, separately. The findings indicate that success rates were low and few clear relationships emerged between isolated variables and improvement in academic performance. Implications for future research and practical suggestions for the…

Sixteen beginning analytic geometry and calculus classes (442 students) followed eight testing regimes for one academic quarter. Three aptitude subgroups were identified in each class. Classes to which daily quizzes were given achieved significantly higher on a specially constructed test than those which had only a single midterm examination.…

Extending the work of Crandall (1969), this study tested the hypotheses of sex differences in interpretation of past academic performance and expectations of future achievement. Subjects were 225 freshman women and 194 freshman men (93 percent of the freshmen class) at a highly selective midwestern liberal arts college: they did not differ in past…

This report examines the college records of students at the University of South Carolina who had previously been incarcerated. Records were available for 40 students with varying types of criminal backgrounds who had been admitted to the university during the period 1965-73. Only one of these students had graduated from the institution, and the…

During the 1973 fall orientation, a questionnaire prepared by the American Council on Education (ACE) was administered to incoming freshmen at the University of South Carolina (USC) and 578 other institutions of higher education including 38 universities. The following study presents a comparative analysis of the various demographic data, opinions…

This paper is a followup study of freshman on the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota. The first study was done in 1968 on the 1967 freshman class. The present study uses basically the same data as the 1968 report including distribution by college and sex, age distribution, parental occupations, paternal education, maternal…