A sample of 370 students in the 7th-9th grades in 1998 was followed for 3 years through the 10th-12th grades in order to investigate the relation of ''developmental assets''--positive relationships, opportunities, skills, values, and self-perceptions--to academic achievement over time, using actual GPA as the key outcome variable. The greater the…

A study was conducted on high school students, comparing those with some music credits to those with none. No statistically significant difference was found in their mean math grade point averages (GPA) or their mean cumulative GPAs. Students were then separated into two groups based on the number of music credits. Students who had earned at least…

This study applies the family--systems concept of differentiation (the balance of autonomy-granting and connectedness) to another primary system of adolescent development--school. This study assessed the relationships among levels of family and school differentiation to the externalizing and internalizing behaviors, peer group membership, and…

This study investigated the relation of differing patterns of counselor verbal behavior to the progress of participants in counseling groups. More specifically, the study compared changes in school attendance and achievement by low-achieving high school students who participated in counseling groups differing in quantity and quality of counselor…

Examined relationship between high school juniors' (N=163) perception of school, grade point averages (GPAs), and loneliness. Results showed students reporting higher levels of loneliness indicated they had poorer quality social experiences, perceived the classroom environment to be of lower quality, believed consequences of school work to be…

This research evaluated the usefulness of three approaches for predicting college grades: (1) traditional regression models; (2) high school effects models; and (3) hierarchical linear models. Results of an analysis of the records of 8,764 freshmen at a major research university revealed that both the high school effects model and the hierarchical…

Identification of grade nine student characteristics which discriminate significantly between retainees and dropouts in the vocational curriculum is shown to be possible to a limited degree. (MS)

Studied prediction of college freshman performance and graduation in U.S. colleges by examining aggregated data at the institutional level for 1,429 4-year institutions. Results suggest that persistence to graduation as a characteristic of student populations at a college can be predicted better than persistence at the individual level at a given…

The study compares two groups of students who graduated from high school in the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) during 1997-2001. Students who had participated in MPS Montessori programs from preschool through 5th grade were matched to a comparison group on the basis of gender, SES, race/ethnicity, and high school attended. Data from the ACT and…

For a decade, Ashland school district required the 70 average for athletes--a higher threshold than the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association standard that many of the state's schools follow. That standard has no minimum GPA, merely requiring that students do not flunk more than one major subject during a marking period. Parents began…

The current study compared the school and psychological functioning of 122 gifted and high-achieving students to that of 176 general education students educated in the same school. Relative to their peers in general education, gifted and high-achieving students served in the school's International Baccalaureate (IB) program reported more positive…

This study investigated the correlation between attendance and grade point average among high school juniors, hypothesizing that there would not be a significant correlation between the two. The sample consisted of 32 students randomly selected from among 172 high school students enrolled in a Chicago public school during school years 1995-1996…

Because of a recognition that the requirements of employees and the work values held by young people have been changing, a study was conducted to determine the meaning associated with work among high school consumer and homemaking home economics students. The effect of two independent variables, grade level and grade point average (GPA), was…

Reports a study that found that the average of the six grades applicants self-reported on the Student Descriptive Questionnaire (provided by the College Entrance Examination Board) is a rather good estimate of either the mean of the six grades that should have been reported or the mean of all grades on the applicant's transcript. (JT)