for providing access to the unit record data. We thank the Upjohn Institute for providing details about the administration of the the Kalamazoo Promise program. The paper has benefitted greatly from the comments of Introduction To the surprise of the residents of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Kalamazoo Promise was announced on November 10, 2005. Fully funded by anonymous donors, the Kalamazoo Promis...

BACKGROUND: Learning achievement is an important indicator to determine the learning and teaching process, each student has a different style. Student learns how they choose suitable method results obtained optimally. A must also learn their styles methods or ways of that are appropriate character. AIM: Knowing relationship between style cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) 4th-year students at...

This study was designed to investigate changes in personal attributes of high-school dropout students between 8th grade and 12th grade. Students who participated in 3 waves of data collection in the "National Educational Longitudinal Study: 1988-1994" in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades, but who dropped out before completing high school, were identified. Scales were developed on rational and empi...

A discriminant analysis was conducted to investigate how an essay, a mathematics/science type of essay, a college scholastic ability test, and grade point average affect acceptance to a pre-med course at a Korean medical school. Subjects included 122 and 385 applicants for, respectively, early and regular admission to a medical school in Korea. The early admission examination was conducted in O...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this paper was to assess factors that predict students' performance in the Medical Licensing Examination of Thailand (MLET) Step1 examination. The hypothesis was that demographic factors and academic records would predict the students' performance in the Step1 Licensing Examination. MATERIALS AND METHODS A logistic regression analysis of demographic factors (age, sex a...

With the purpose of adapting the sport motivation scale (Pelletier, Fortier, Vallerand, Tuscon, Briere, & Blais, 1995) to the population of students in the final grades of elementary school, that is, with the purpose of measuring their motivation in physical education classes, 305 female and male students of finishing grades were examined. All scales had good metric characteristics, except the ...