Junius A. Davis

Public And Private School Graduates In College

Intercorrelations among the predictors and Freshman Average Grade for the public and private school graduates who completed the freshman year are given in Table 1, along with means and standard deviations. The average of the freshman average grades for public school graduates was found to be 2.8 and for the private school graduates 3.1-the boys from public school were found to earn better freshman grades,

The Interaction of Learning, Personality Traits, Ability, and Environment: a Preliminary Study

new approaches are generated. The purpose of this study is to apply the moderator variable design in an investigation of the interaction of learning, a personality trait, ability, and environment. In a review of the literature covering the period from 1948 to 1957, Fishman commented that It would hardly seem too much of an exaggeration to say that nearly every investigator of higher education has done a study predicting college achievement or adjustment. It also seems that every investigator has done only one such study. (Fishman, 1962, pp. 668-69.)

A Validation Study of the Iowa Legal Aptitude Test

Problem: THE purpose of the present study was to test the validity of the Iowa Legal 4ptitude Test (Quick Scoring Revision) and its subtests as a predictor of the first year average grade at the Emory University School of Law. A measure reflecting undergraduate average grade was also tested as a predictor. Subjects: The subjects consisted of 91 students from those entering Emory Law School between September, 10~0, and October, 1952, who had completed at least the first year of academic work by January, 10~, and for whom records of undergraduate average grade were available (five were excluded because of no data of this sort). Although about half of the subjects did their undergraduate work at Emory University, the group represented 27 different colleges. Subjects ranged in age from 18 to 63, with median age of 20; both full and part-time students were represented. Results: The ILAT was administered to students after