About two-thirds of laggards would not have met the proposed high-school-record admission requirement, indicating personal characteristics established before college¶

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Currency · newest study 1910 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Of 78 laggards with principal reports, 47 would not have been certified for admission under the proposed 75/80 per cent entrance rule. → J. B. Miner 1910

Evidence¶

J. B. Miner 1910¶

J. B. Miner. (1910). The College Laggard. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+College+Laggard%22+Miner+Journal+of+Educational+Psychology

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Analysis of high school records for 78 laggard-list students against the proposed entrance requirement of at least 75 per cent (or 80 per cent where passing was 75). The article reports 47, or practically two-thirds, would not have been certified.

"Of 78 students on the laggard list about whom I received reports from the superintendents or principals, 47, or practically two-thirds, would not have been certified to the university for admis-sion on the basis of their high school records if our new re-quirement had been in effect."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Moral factors were judged roughly four times as often as intellectual incapacity as the cause of laggards' failure — related
• Students from wealthier backgrounds and private schools appeared disproportionately on the laggard list — related