This study compared a group of fourth-grade underachievers with a control group in the areas of peer relationships and measured personality variables. The underachievers were identified by predicting their grade-point average (GPA) from their WISC Verbal Scale IQ score by use of a prediction equation. If the predicted GPA was .8 standard error of estimate above their obtained GPA, the student was identified as an underachiever. This resulted in the identification of 84 male and 34 female underachievers. The results of the investigation indicated that regardIess of sex, underachievers are selected less frequently by their peers and have a lower level of personality adjustment.N RECENT YEARS much attention has
A systematic attempt to compare the characteristics of college freshmen who pledge and who do not pledge social fraternities. From freshmen entering the University of North Dakota in the fall of 1962 a random sample was drawn and divided into four groups of 46 Ss each: male pledges, male independents, female pledges and female independents.
The Ss' responses to several personality inventories and college ability test were analyzed by a 2 times 2 factorial analysis of variance; and to a biographical inventory by use of a 2 times 4 chi‐square The results (significant at the 0.05 level or beyond) suggested that (a) pledges are different from those students who do not pledge fraternities on a number of characteristics, values, and expectations, (b) potential pledges participate in more social activities in high school, and (c) pledges had unfulfilled expectation of the role fraternities would play in their academic lives.
This is an investigation to determine whether a "therapeutic atmosphere" established by the UND Guidance Institute staff would facilitate changes in the perceptions of students similar to those of clients who have experienced counseling. Students in the NSF Science Institute were employed as a comparison group.The Butler-Haigh Q sort was administered three times during the academic year to students in both Institutes. After intragroup and intergroup comparisons the following conclusions were drawn: a) Guidance Institute members initially had more positive feelings towards others than Science Institute members, b) The Guidance Institute members made more "therapeutic" gain in self-acceptance than did the Science Institute members, c) both groups made more gain in similarity to others during the first part of the year, and more gain in acceptance of others during the last part of the year.
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of selected counseling and remedial techniques in altering grade point average (GPA) and measured personality variables of underachieving fourth grade students. Out of 700 students tested, 121 were identified as underachievers. These underachievers were exposed to various counseling and reading instruction treatments for 14 one-half hour sessions. The results indicated that the various treatments were not effective in producing significant changes. Possible causes for the lack of results were cited and suggestions for further research were made.
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