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Download full textBlachowicz, Camille L. Z. – 1982
The movement away from a stimulus-response to a constructive view of memory and reading comprehension has had an impact on both reading research and teaching. Viewing memory as not simply the recollection of sensory data, but as the complex interaction of the sensory experience with its immediate context and the perceiver's previous knowledge,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Aptitude, Learning Theories, Memory
Garner, Ruth – 1984
Good readers tend to engage in conscious reading strategies that poor readers do not. Expert readers display the following strategic behaviors that novices do not: (1) studying text segments previously found difficult more extensively than easy segments; (2) spending more study time on difficult stories than on easy ones; (3) summarizing just the…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Centers
Whaley, Jill Fitzgerald; Spiegel, Dixie Lee – 1982
A study was conducted to determine if instruction in schematic aspects of narratives would enhance children's knowledge of story constituents and their interrelationships and to assess the effect of instruction in narrative schema on the reading comprehension of average and below average readers. Subjects were 20 fourth grade students who had been…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
DeVito, Anthony J.; And Others – 1982
The decade of the 1970's saw an alarming decline in the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores of entering college freshmen, and it was theorized that this might be attributed to a corresponding decline in study attitudes. To test this hypothesis, math and verbal SAT scores, study habits, and attitudes of college freshmen in the classes of 1973 and…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Attitude Change, Attribution Theory, College Freshmen
Department of Defense, Washington, DC. – 1984
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, Form 14 (ASVAB-14) is a multiple aptitude test battery designed for use for civilian, as well as military, career counseling. This manual is designed for use by school guidance counselors in administration and interpretation of results of the ASVAB-14. The 1984 revision of this instrument includes…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
Grabe, Mark – 1985
A study was conducted to determine the relationship between processing load and ability to locate text segments containing intersentence contradictions. It was hypothesized that less able readers fail to exhibit comprehension monitoring skills because most tasks overload their processing capacity. Subjects were 87 fourth and sixth grade students…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Processes, Coherence, Grade 4
Byers, Joe L. – 1984
An overview and analysis is presented of the Vance and Schlechty Study (1982) of education majors which indicated that there is a negative selection process which systematically attracts and holds in the teaching profession young people with modest verbal and mathematical abilities. Three factors, operating singly or in combination, were…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Admission Criteria, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis
Matheson, Carol – 1980
A study examined whether using a tree diagram (a graphic, multidimensional classification device) as a prewriting organizer would provide students with a systematic method of searching for and organizing the content of their descriptive writing to meet some communication goal. One-hundred twenty-three seventh grade students were classified as…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Descriptive Writing, Diagrams, Grade 7
Savage, Tom V. – 1982
A longitudinal study compared the academic abilities of undergraduate women students in seven college programs at a large university. Four questions were posed: (1) What are the academic qualifications of women choosing education as a career? (2) How do these women compare with women choosing other programs? (3) What changes take place in the…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Education Majors
Mowsesian, Richard; Hays, William L. – 1982
The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Aptitude Test has been in use since 1938. In 1975 the GRE Aptitude Test was broadened to include an experimental set of items designed to tap a respondent's recognition of logical relationships and consistency of interrelated statements, and to make inferences from abstract relationships. To test the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, College Applicants
FLANAGAN, JOHN C.; AND OTHERS – 1960
THE STEPS IN PLANNING AND CARRYING OUT THE INITIAL PROJECT ARE OUTLINED. THE PROJECT IS AIMED AT PROVIDING A SOUND FACTUAL BASIS WHICH WOULD ASSIST PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS IN HELPING EACH INDIVIDUAL TO REALIZE HIS GREATEST POTENTIAL. TESTS WERE DEVISED TO ANALYZE APTITUDE, ACHIEVEMENT, INTEREST, AND PERSONALITY. THE 2-DAY TEST…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Rating, High School Students
JENSEN, JOHN ANDERS – 1966
THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE CORRELATIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SELECTED APTITUDE AND INTEREST MEASURES AND CHEMISTRY ACHIEVEMENT. THE INVESTIGATION ALSO WAS CONCERNED WITH THE STABILITY OF THESE RELATIONSHIPS FOR TWO INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS AND FOR MALES AND FEMALES. SELECTED APTITUDE AND INTEREST MEASURES WERE STUDIED IN…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Chemistry, Class Size
Dunteman, George H.; Peng, Samuel S. – 1977
A study was undertaken of transfer students in postsecondary institutions, based on data from the base year and first and second followups of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. Its specific objectives were to: (1) obtain national estimates of the number and proportion of students in the categories of four-year to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, College Students, Financial Support
Harnqvist, Kjell – 1977
A model demonstrates how low correlations for academic achievement in separate units of instruction can be compatible with high correlations for cumulated achievement. The unit achievement is assumed to consist of a task-specific part and a part correlated with a predictor. When units of learning are cumulated, attrition of earlier learning takes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Gains, Correlation
Santeusanio, Richard P. – 1974
The major purpose of this study was to relate individual differences among selected Suffolk University freshmen to their ability to succeed academically through a reading study skills course which utilized a teacher-directed approach and a student-directed approach. The subject were 87 students from a freshman class who had graduated in the bottom…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Directed Reading Activity, Higher Education, Individualized Reading
