Date of Award:

5-1939

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

School of Teacher Education and Leadership

Department name when degree awarded

Education

Committee Chair(s)

Arden Frandsen

Committee

Arden Frandsen

Abstract

The need for study in regard to factors related to student achievement and their possible application as guidance devices for entering freshmen in any college is very evident in our modern life. We have only to look at the increasing college enrollments and to the scarcity of positions for college graduates to realize this. In an effort to meet this need, educators should more and more base their practices on the findings of statistical and experimental studies.

That an improvement is needed in the technique used for the guidance of entering students at the Utah State Agricultural College is very evident. This study is an attempt to find some of the factors related to freshman academic success and their guidance possibilities at the U.S.A.C. The study was begun in January 1939 and continued until May of that year. The work was carried on entirely at the Utah State Agricultural College. The data obtained concerns the freshmen who entered the college in September 1938. An attempt is made to find an indicator of "general school ability"; that is, some factor that highly correlates with academic achievement. Those freshmen who differed markedly in scholastic achievement from their general school ability were interviewed personally in an attempt to find other factors related to academic achievement.

This paper is the report of this study. It is hoped that it will help to a better understanding of factors related to academic success, and that it will in some small measure serve those who are concerned with the administration of the problems of the guidance of entering college students, and that it will also add something to the scientific study of education.

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