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Lammers, William J.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Slate, John R. – Research in the Schools, 2001
Studied the predominant study skills and weaknesses of college students in a sample of 366 undergraduates. Study skill weaknesses were identified in the areas of note-taking, reading skills, and time management. Study skills were also related to age, grade point average, and the number of hours spent studying each week. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, College Students, Higher Education
Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Slate, John R.; Paterson, Frances R. A.; Watson, Mary H.; Schwartz, Robert A. – Research in the Schools, 2000
Studied empirical factors related to achievement in educational research courses using a sample of 121 graduate students. Students with the lowest achievement tended to have or exhibit at least one of these characteristics: younger age, lower overall achievement, higher levels of research anxiety, higher statistics anxiety, poorer study habits,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Anxiety, Educational Research
Wickes, Kevin; Slate, John R. – Research in the Schools, 1999
Analyzed academic achievement scores of 115 African American students referred for psychological examination. Although tests purported to measure the same mathematics or reading constructs, statistically significant mean differences were present in four of six comparisons. Reading comprehension measures shared the lowest amount of common variance.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Black Students, Mathematics Achievement
Slate, John R.; Jones, Craig H. – Research in the Schools, 1996
Implications of the relationships among mathematics and reading achievement tests scores uncovered by testing 366 elementary school students with academic difficulties are discussed. Tests are the: (1) KeyMath-Revised (J. Connolly, 1988); (2) Peabody Individual Achievement Test-Revised (F. Markwardt, 1989); (3) Wechsler Individual Achievement Test…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Jones, Craig H.; Slate, John R.; Marini, Irmo – Research in the Schools, 1995
The relationship of students' study skills to their locus of control, social interdependence, academic preparation, age, and study time was studied with 266 college students. Study skills were related to locus of control, age, expected course grade, and study time. The need to address attitudinal and motivational variables in study skills programs…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, College Students, Grades (Scholastic)
Slate, John R.; Jones, Craig H.; Turnbough, Rose; Bauschlicher, Lynn – Research in the Schools, 1994
Gender differences in scores on the Metropolitan Achievement Test (secondary students) and Stanford Achievement Test (elementary school students) were studied with 844 white students in Mississippi. Results are consistent with other recent research in which females outperformed males, supporting the contention that gender differences favoring…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Secondary School Students