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McNiel, Nathaniel Dewey – 1975
The purpose of the study was to compare the performances of black and white urban high school students on a conventional measure of intelligence, the Lorge Thorndike vocabulary test and a culture specific test, the Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity. In addition to determining whether or not there were race differences in performance…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cultural Influences, Doctoral Dissertations, High School Students
Download full textEisenberg, Marjorie Susan – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were statistically significant correlations among standardized test scores due to general reading ability and whether these correlations were affected by the factors of sex, race, and I.Q. Scores were collected for three different tests (Nelson-Denny Reading Test, Lorge-Thorndike I.Q. Test,…
Descriptors: Intelligence Quotient, Masters Theses, Race, Reading Ability
Nommay, Daniel E. – 1988
This document focuses on published materials on the topic of the effects of family structure on intelligence and academic achievement from the last 15 years. Fourteen terms such as "birth order" and "spacing" are defined. Forty-five papers, published from 1973 to 1986, are annotated. Research results are summarized in the areas of family size,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Birth Order, Family Characteristics
Young, Aaron Ross, Jr. – 1976
This study attempted to prove a dichotomy between cognitive processes as measured by Piagetian reasoning tasks and those measured by traditional intelligence tests. A battery of tests (Slosson Intelligence Test, Durrell's Silent Reading and Listening Comprehension Test, Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices, and the Piagetian Measure of Cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
Griffin, John Michael – 1978
The correlation between specific personality and biographical variables and the grade point average (GPA) of 211 first quarter community college and technical institute students was investigated using the Adult Nowicki Strickland Internal-External scale to determine locus of control, the Post High School Self-Concept of Academic Ability scale, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Community Colleges, Ethnic Groups
Thomas, Gail E. – 1975
The major research question addressed in this dissertation is: To what extent do past attainment models which have been primarily applied to white male samples predict the educational achievement of blacks and women? Data for this inquiry are based on a subsample of black and white males and females who participated in a National Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, College Attendance, Comparative Analysis
Dodds, Jon H. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that variables such as social class, sex, race, I.Q. and school achievement influence a child's anxiety through their influence on the child's tendency to attribute his failures to low ability. The research method selected was a survey design in which nearly simultaneous data were gathered on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Attribution Theory, Doctoral Dissertations
