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Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Community Colleges. – 1980
A series of data tables are presented, detailing the demographic makeup and academic success of those students at the Florida state universities who had transferred from the Florida community colleges. The tables, which include fall term data for 1977, 1978, 1979, classify the transfer students by age, sex, race, date of entry into the university,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Articulation (Education), Black Students, College Credits
Kapes, Jerome T.; And Others – 1980
Three models of multiple regression analysis (MRA): single equation, commonality analysis, and path analysis, were applied to longitudinal data from the Pennsylvania Vocational Development Study. Variables influencing weekly income of vocational education students one year after high school graduation were examined: grade point averages (grades…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, High School Graduates, High Schools, Income
Stafford, Thomas H., Jr.; Council, Kathryn A. – 1974
As a followup study, the academic performance of 120 black students who entered North Carolina State University as new freshmen in the fall of 1970, 1971, and 1972 was examined in order to determine whether the University Predicted Grade Average (UPGA) equation is biased for black students. Major findings are: (1) for both marginal black students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bias, Black Students, College Admission
Thompson, Patricia; And Others – 1979
Using college freshmen enrolled in a learning analysis course, the relationship between five tests of cognitive style was investigated: (1) Group Embedded Figures Test; (2) Grasha-Riechmann Student Learning Style Questionnaire; (3) Adult Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale; (4) Mehrabian Stimulus Screening Test; and (5) Kolb Learning Style…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, College Credits
Lannholm, Gerald V. – 1968
Thirty eight studies which employed Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) scores in predicting success in graduate study are reviewed. The report is presented in four sections--summary of findings by major field of study (23 different major fields); 21 studies employing varied criteria of success; 13 studies employing grade-point average as the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Aptitude Tests
Rock, Donald A. – 1974
First-year graduate students were asked to respond to a biographical questionnaire which emphasized motivational variables in addition to the usual demographic variables. It was hypothesized that the students could select from a group of ability measures the one best indicator of how well they would do in graduate school. To test this hypothesis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Biographical Inventories
de Wolf, Virginia A.; Eeckhoudt, Jeannette – 1977
All students receiving master's degrees, doctoral candidacy status, and doctorates at the University of Washington between fall 1974 and the summer quarter 1975 were studied. Data are reported for male, female, and total groups on source of bachelor's degree, age at entry, number of years since receipt of the most recent degree, credits earned,…
Descriptors: Age, Credits, Degrees (Academic), Doctoral Degrees
Fadale, LaVerna M.; And Others – 1977
This study focused on the factors that were positive contributors to the success of two-year college students at six colleges who were or had been enrolled in basic skill developmental programs. For study purposes, success involved student eligibility to continue in a chosen program. Variables used in evaluating student success/non-success…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Developmental Studies Programs
Lunneborg, Patricia W. – 1975
Long term criteria of college performance, i.e., graduation in four years, cumulative GPA, credits earned, and graduating major, were studied in relation to a comprehensive pre-college battery administered in the high school (HS) junior year. Despite restricting the sample to 1,633 university students who had progressed to junior standing in three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Tests, College Freshmen
Gillmore, Gerald M.; And Others – 1974
While granting college credit by examination seems to be on the increase in popularity, few educational researchers seem to be assessing the effect of proficiency credit on student educational variables. For this purpose, the transcripts of 349 students who had graduated from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) during the academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Acceleration, Accountability
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Cooley, Carl R.; And Others – BIA Education Research Bulletin, 1976
Comparisons were made of test scores derived from a sample of American Indian students attending grades 2 through 10, living in a Bureau of Indian Affairs dormitory, and enrolled either in an English as a Second Language Program (N=43) or in the regular school program (N=87) to determine ESL impact on Indian students' English vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Tests, American Indians, Comparative Analysis
Ehrlich, Dan J.; Ellis, Stephen B. – 1975
LaGuardia Community College (LGCC) has recently initiated work on the development of a comprehensive system for computer storage, processing, and analysis of data pertaining to student performance, demography, and attitudes. This system is not yet wholly operative, but many of its components have been developed. This report presents the findings…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Databases, Grade Point Average, Grades (Scholastic)
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California Univ., Berkeley. Office of Institutional Research. – 1975
Statistics from the period covering the year 1973-74 and the fall quarter of 1974 are contained in this document. Statistics for fall 1974, include: (1) a summary of campus enrollment; (2) new, continuing, and returning students; (3) full-time and part-time students; (4) undergraduates by college or school and class level; (5) major field of…
Descriptors: Certification, Degrees (Academic), Enrollment, Extension Education
Knotting, Charles; Brozovich, Richard – 1969
Background and followup data were obtained for 183 subjects who had been enrolled in the School Adjustment Program (ASP), a public school program for emotionally disturbed children. Average age of the subjects at the time of followup was 16-7; mean age at entrance was 10-10; mean IQ, 96.9; average length of stay in the program, 16.7 academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Attendance, Behavior Problems
Winslow, Jacqueline Lee – 1968
This study investigated numbers and percentages of San Diego Adult School graduates completing their first semester of college work during 1962-67, locations of colleges attended, numbers of students attending, grade point averages (GPA) and number of credit courses taken, and GPAs for graduates out of state, in California, in the San Diego area,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Colleges, Credit Courses
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