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A Comparative Analysis Of Aptitudes Measured By General Aptitude Test Battery (Gate ) For Student Groups In Various Specialties Of The Vocational Technical Training Department At Kansas State College Of Pittsburg, Jerry D. Harreld

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Are there differences in the aptitudes as measured by the General Aptitude Test Battery of students in the various course specialties of the Vocational-Technical- Training Department of Kansas State College of Pittsburg?

This study investigated the GATB aptitudes of 812 students enrolled in Vocational Technical Training Department of Kansas State College of Pittsburg from May 1, 1960 to June 30, 1964. The statistical techniques of analysis used in this investigation of the measures of variability and central tendencies of the GATB aptitudes were Bartlett's Test of Homogeneity of Variance and the single classification of analysis of variance.

Bartlett's Test established …

The Effects Of Listening Training On Achievement, Kenneth D. Vineyard

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Reading has long been recognized as a necessary skill but only recently has there been much interest in listening skills even though listening is the most frequently used language activity. Within the past decade many studies have indicated that listening ability correlates highly with intelligence, vocabulary, and report card grades, and some investigators claim that listening training will improve listening ability. If listening ability correlates positively with report card grades then listening training should aid academic achievement.

The present experiment has investigated the effect of listening training on the grade point averages of college freshmen. Since special treatment of experimental …