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Title: Factors in college life
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Harwood, Hazel May
Subjects: Women college students Women college students Academic achievement Theses
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Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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uation. H and I both lived out of the house and came in for meals, so that the restof the students were not as well acquainted with them or their habits. H wasoverestimated probably because, when she moved into the house later in the year,she gave more time to social and student activities, than when as a firstsemester freshman, she put class work above all else - almost eliminating allelse. I quietly did more than she ever commented on; only her best friendsknew how distributed her interests were. Differences for P and C were personal rather than general - but as easilyunderstood and explained by one knowing the group. Chart VIII shows the grand final rank orders J(l) through £(20) representedby the sum of two composite ranks (B and Rw). The possible range is 2 - 40.The range with this group is 2 - 39. There are four places where there is anyconsiderable drop or variation in the curve: S to F, 0 to X, M to E and A to L,thus dividing the group in 5 sections as follows;;4, 2, S, 2, 3.
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U. OF 1. S. 5. FORM 3 80 TABLE 37 COBRFXATIOTTS (From values in Table 35) i.e. Records to student estimates Scholarship r = .94 Native Ability r = .73 Student Activities * * .60 Social Life r s .55 Composite r r .83 Interpretation. 1. Student estimates and records on scholarship show extremely highcorrelations (.94). 2. Student estimates of native ability and actual ability as shown bythe mental tests show very high correlations (.73). 3. Student estimates of each other in university activities andstudents participation in these show high correlation (.60). 4. Students estimates of each other socially and their standingaccording to time spent evenings socially shovv not as high correlation as theother factors - but quite a satisfactory one (.55). 5. Student estimates of each other on the whole or composite of factorsshows an unusually high correlation with their records (.83). 81 TABLE 38 CORRELATIONS OF FITTAL COMPOSITE TITH FOUR FACTORS Composite with scholarship r .43 Composite wit

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