IN AN EFFORT TO INCREASE EFFECTIVENESS OF EDUCATION FOR LOW-ABILITY STUDENTS, 35 ENTERING FRESHMEN WITH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE ABILITY TEST SCORES IN THE LOWEST 16 PERCENT WERE INVITED TO BE IN A PILOT PROGRAM OF BASIC CLASSES IN ENGLISH, SPEECH, PSYCHOLOGY, AND AN ELECTIVE. OF THE 35, 28 COMPLETED THE SEMESTER, TWO TRANSFERRED TO REGULAR CLASSES, AND…

THE AIM WAS TO DETERMINE THE ACCURACY OF TEST SCORES IN PREDICTING FUTURE ACHIEVEMENT. A SOMEWHAT SHARPER AGREEMENT WAS FOUND BETWEEN EARLY PREDICTIVE FACTORS AND SCHOOL MARKS IN GRADE 9 THAN BETWEEN THESE FACTORS AND SCHOOL MARKS IN GRADES 11 AND 12. TWO REASONS FOR THIS DIFFERENCE ARE CITED. IF A PREDICTION FOR A PUPIL IS MADE AT GRADE 6, A…

ONE MAJOR PROBLEM IN EDUCATION HAS BEEN TO FIND A METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING STUDENTS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE GREATEST POSSIBLE GAINS FOR THE STUDENTS AND FACILITATE THE BEST TEACHING TECHNIQUES. EDUCATORS SEEKING ANSWERS TO THIS PROBLEM HAVE EXPERIMENTED WITH DIVIDING CLASSES INTO GROUPS OF A MORE HOMOGENEOUS NATURE, USUALLY ON THE BASIS OF…

THE STUDY WAS INSTIGATED TO DEMONSTRATE THAT A PROGRAM FOR GIFTED CHILDREN COULD BE EFFECTIVELY ADMINISTERED IN RURAL AREAS. FIVE SCHOOL DISTRICTS DEVELOPED SPECIAL CLASSES FOR GIFTED CHILDREN ACCORDING TO CONDITIONS WITHIN THE SCHOOL. FIVE OTHER DISTRICTS IN THE SAME RURAL OHIO COUNTY BEGAN SPECIAL GROUPINGS FOR ENRICHED SUBJECTS TAUGHT SEVERAL…

This document is a companion volume to "Resources for School Based Teacher Educators" and provides a self-assessment instrument for teacher educators in rating themselves on the twenty competencies described in that volume. The instrument consists of sixty-six items, for which the teacher educator is asked to assess his competence on a…

Of all the areas related to the validity of the Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship Examination (CSSE) tests, that of predictive validity seems to have been studied most intensively. Since the inception of the CSSE scholarship scheme, a series of studies which have either examined the predictive validity of certain aspects of the scholarships, or…

This book was written primarily for men in management positions in American organizations. It is also intended to serve as a guide to all instructors and students of management institutions from two-year community colleges through graduate schools. It is divided into nine chapters. Chapter 1 includes a study of the personal characteristics of…

Grade 11 norms for the Academic Interest Measures are presented. A random sample of 187 schools was involved in the norming study, and three instruments, AIM, the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test, and a questionnaire were administered to 15,450 grade 11 students. Separate percentile ranks tables are presented for groups organized on the basis…

The primary object of this research proposal is to delineate the area of general learning abilities. It differentiates between abilities and skills by defining ability as a general trait which can be inferred from observation of responses consistent across tasks and skill as a proficiency on a specific task or on a limited group of tasks. A review…

NONINTELLECTIVE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN COLLEGE WERE INVESTIGATED IN THREE PHASES OF RESEARCH--(1) PERSONALITY AND MOTIVATIONAL CORRELATES OF ACADEMIC APTITUDE AND PERFORMANCE AMONG STUDENTS WHO HAD COMPLETED AT LEAST 1 YEAR OF COLLEGE WERE EXAMINED, (2) DATA WERE COLLECTED FROM FRESHMAN STUDENTS BEFORE THEY ENTERED…

CERTAIN TYPES OF INTELLECTUAL ABILITIES WHICH DEFINE THE MATHEMATICAL APTITUDES OF NINTH-GRADE STUDENTS AND WHICH RELATE TO ACHIEVEMENT IN SPECIFIC MATHEMATICS COURSES WERE DEFINED AND EVALUATED. ANALYSES OF VARIANCE AND COVARIANCE INDICATED THE RANGE OF VARIATION IN EIGHT TEST SCORE DISTRIBUTIONS OF VERBAL AND MATHEMATICAL APTITUDES AMONG FIVE…

The contractual competency program is designed to develop and assess the understanding and ability to apply the basic concepts of physical activity. This is done through a program of self-assessment and the subsequent planning and implementation of an individualized program of physical activities and experiences. (JD)

Social comparison theory predicts that when the person is uncertain about the level of his ability, he may seek comparison information through competitive behavior. An experiment is reported in which the level of the subject's uncertainty about his competence was manipulated and subsequent measures of his competitive motivation and behavior were…

Discusses the need for a method to measure computer user abilities, and presents an instrument that identifies individuals' technical, modeling, and applications skills. An evaluation of the instrument in terms of validity and reliability is reported, and applications in user education research are suggested. (12 references) (CLB)