Open AccessA MULTIPLE MODERATOR APPROACH TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF OVER‐ AND UNDERACHIEVERS 1
Author(s) -
Flaugher Ronald L.,
Rock Donald A.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
ets research bulletin series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2333-8504
pISSN - 0424-6144
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1969.tb00405.x
Subject(s) - moderation , psychology , identification (biology) , mathematics education , rank (graph theory) , social psychology , demography , statistics , mathematics , sociology , biology , combinatorics , ecology
This paper reports a study of over‐ and underachievement of college students, utilizing a computerized multiple moderator technique. The subjects were students at a large southwestern university, the predictors were short forms of the SAT and high school rank, and the criterion was first year grade average. Selected background variables were the potential moderators. The overachievers were characterized as having come from backgrounds where the father was highly educated, the underachievers were observed as having small town origins and high interest in extracurricular activities.