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Scager, Karin; Akkerman, Sanne F.; Keesen, Fried; Mainhard, M. Tim; Pilot, Albert; Wubbels, Theo – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
Universities in many countries increasingly value talent, and do so by developing special honors programs for their top students. The selection process for these programs often relies on the students' prior achievements in school. Research has shown, however, that school grades do not sufficiently predict academic success. According to Renzulli's…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Intelligence, Persistence, Creative Thinking
Dochy, F. J. R. C.; Bouwens, M. R. J. – 1990
This paper reports an investigation that was done ex post facto, examining the hypothesis that within economics courses defined economics students achieved better results than did law students in the same courses. This should not be the case if the courses are truly multifunctional. Information on an economics and money course and a course on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Course Content, Distance Education