Differential Prediction of Achievement in Broad Curricular Areas in an Academic High School
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to apply the powerful statistical tool of multiple discriminant analysis to the aptitude and achievement patterns of eighth grade students in an attempt to discover if readily available elementary school marks and test scores could be effectively used in the early placement of students entering a secondary school that offered a multiple track curriculum. The study would make use of modern computer techniques to simplify the task of securing prompt, accurate, and valid predictions to these broad curricular areas.While it was not the purpose of this investigation to evaluate the efficiency of homogeneous grouping in general, or of the multiple track system in particular, some consideration of the rationale of these curricular methods was necessary for a proper background. Ability grouping is not a new device, but its use in secondary schools since 1950 had increased due to restatements of the pursuit of excellence as the primary goal of education. Rickover (1959), Conant (1959), Ward (1958), and many others insisted that the school return to its original aim, that of intellectual development.
Subject Area
Higher education|Educational administration
Recommended Citation
Waldron, Brother Cormac, "Differential Prediction of Achievement in Broad Curricular Areas in an Academic High School" (1964). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31189660.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31189660
