A Comparative Analysis of Selected Characteristics of Intellectually Superior Male Students who Persist and Those who do not Persist in an Advanced Placement Program

• Main Author: Helton, William Bernard
• Other Authors: Beamer, George C.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: North Texas State University 1964
• Subjects: persistence; youth; Advanced placement programs (Education); Academic achievement.; Persistence.; academic achievement
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc164181/

This study made a comparative analysis of certain selected characteristics of a group of academically able male youth who persisted and those who did not persist in a five-year academic sequence in mathematics and science. Two major questions were dealt with in this study: 1. Can the persisting youth as a group be distinguished from those youth who did not persist in this academic sequence on the basis of their functioning in certain nonintellective areas? 2. Are the performances of the persisting youth on certain dimensions elevated in the same directions as are the performances of mature creatives who have been intensively studied on the same dimensions?