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Lingle, Ronald K.; Rosenthal, William H. – 1977
Students in four history classes were administered the Reading Progress Scale, form 5C (1975), to determine if scores would identify students who would have difficulty with coursework. Using multiple regression analysis, the scale accounted for only 8% of grade variance. While the complete sample chi square was significant, individual classes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Grade Equivalent Scores, Grade Prediction

Blackburn, Robert T.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1991
A study compared selected personal and environmental motivational variables in college faculty with allocation of work effort to research, scholarship, and service. Faculty were from eight liberal arts and sciences departments in a range of institution types. For all institutional types, self-valuation motivators significantly accounted for the…
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, Cognitive Psychology, College Faculty