Students with the least means studied the most and made the best grades, while students tired of school studied least and made relatively low grades¶

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q2 i? Among questionnaire respondents grouped by first-ranked elimination cause, the money group studied most and the tired-of-school group least, with low-grade students next to bottom in study time. → E. D. Jennings 1911

Evidence¶

E. D. Jennings 1911¶

E. D. Jennings. (1911). The Elimination of Freshmen from the University of Texas. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=elimination+of+freshmen+from+the+university+of+texas

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Figure III shows minutes studied per subject per day outside class by average freshmen answering the questionnaire, grouped by first cause of elimination. Table VI reports average university study hours by group (e.g., money group 5 hours, tired group 4).

"We see that students with the least means study most, and those '' tired of school'' study least; those who make the lowest grades are next to the bottom in the amount of study."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Freshmen rank lack of money as the leading cause of elimination, followed by ill-health; the authors attribute about 34 per cent of elimination to lack of means and 28 per cent to ill-health — related
• A postal follow-up of 850 non-returning freshmen corroborated the earlier findings, with lack of money again the most common first-ranked cause (54 of 108 replies) — related
• University scholarship ratings ran about 16 per cent below high-school ratings for the same students, ranking them only two-thirds as high per hour of study, a gap the authors link to discouragement and withdrawal — related