The purpose of this study was to develop a profile of the student who is most likely to fail one or more CLAST communication subtests two or more times. The study was limited in scope to an examination of the Chipola Junior College students who, through March of 1989, had failed one or more of the CLAST communication subtests two or more times, a total of eighteen students. / Information gathered included (1) demographics of the Chipola Junior College district; (2) the name, sex, race, high school, and high school graduation date for each student who failed one or more CLAST communication subtests two or more times; (3) high school transcript information on each of these students; (4) whether the student was in a writing enhancement program, college preparatory class, or Teacher Advisement Program; and (5) the college transcript information on each student. / The results of the study indicate that the Chipola Junior College student who is most likely to fail one or more CLAST communication subtests two or more times is a white male from a small town or rural high school within the five-county Chipola Junior College district. He took more terminal track than college track courses in high school, was not in a writing enhancement program in high school, did not take college preparatory courses in high school, did not participate in a Teacher Advisement Program in high school, had an overall high school GPA of 2.62, had a high school English GPA of 1.91, had an ACT English Usage Standard Score of 9.63 and had an ACT Composite Standard Score of 9.3. / At Chipola Junior College he took college preparatory writing, but not college preparatory reading. He made a C in English 1101 and a D in English 1102, but he did not take any additional writing courses. His overall Chipola GPA was 2.26, and he failed the reading and essay subtests the first time he took the CLAST. He passed the reading subtest on his second attempt, but not the essay. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-07, Section: A, page: 2253. / Major Professor: Dwight L. Burton. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78272 |
Contributors | Carroll, Richard Earl., Florida State University |
Source Sets | Florida State University |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Text |
Format | 98 p. |
Rights | On campus use only. |
Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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