Failure in First Year University Examinations

I. Books Dale R. R. From School to University. Routledge & Kegan Paul. London, 1954.

Hohne H . The Prediction of Academic Success. A.C.E.R., Melbourne, 1951. (First Report, Arts, etc).

Hohne H . The Prediction of Academic Success. A.C.E.R., Melbourne, 1956. (Second Report, Engineering, etc).

Sanders C. Student Selection and Academic Success in Australian Universities. Commonwealth Office of Education, Sydney, 1948.

Warburton F. W. The Selection of University Students. Manchester University Press, 1952.

II. Articles and Summaries Burt C. L. “The Reliability of Teachers' Assessments of Their Pupils”. Brit. J. Educ. Psych., Vol. 15, pp. 80–92, 1945.

Eysenck H. “Student Selection by Means of Psychological Tests”. Brit. J. Educ. Psych., 5, p. 59, 1935.

Garrett F. H. “A Review and Interpretation of Investigations of Factors Related to Scholastic Success in Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Teachers' Colleges”. J. Exp. Educ., Vol. XVIII, 2, pp. 91–138, 1949.

Heim A. W. “An Attempt to Test High-grade Intelligence”. Brit. J. Psych., Vol. XXXVII, p. 79, 1947.

Himmelweit H. T. Summerfield A. “Student Selection—An experimental investigation”. Brit. J. Sociol., I, 1, 4, 328–346; II, 2, 1, 59–75; III, 2, 4, 340–353.

Hohne H. “The Prediction of Academic Success”. Aust. J. Pysch., Vol. I, No. 1, pp. 38–42, 1949.

Home Universities Conferences 1951, 1952. Assoc. of Universities of the British Commonwealth.

May M. A. Hartshorne H. “Recent Improvements in Devices for Rating Character”. J. Soc. Psych., Vol. I, p. 66, 1930.

Munroe R. L. “Prediction of the Adjustment and Academic Performance of College Students by a Modification of the Rorschach Method”. Appl. Psych. Monogr. 7, p. 104, 1945.

Olsen F.J. “Distribution of Academic Talent among the Various Faculties of the University”. Univ. of Q. Gazette, No. 29, August, 1954.

Olsen F.J. “Causes of Failure in University Examinations”. Conference with Principals of Secondary Schools, Univ. of Queensland, 1955.

Political and Economic Planning. “Choosing University Students”. Vol. XIX, No. 357, November, 1953.

Sanders C. “University Selection: Some Psychological and Educational Factors”. Aust. J. Psych., Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1953, pp. 118–132.

Vernon P. E. “Educational Ability of Training College Students”. Brit. J. Educ. Psych., 9, pp. 233–250, 1939.

Williams E. M. “An Investigation of the Value of High School Certificate Results in Predicting Performance in First Year University Examinations”. Brit. J. Educ. Psych., Vol. XX, Part II, June, 1950.

Wrenn C. G. Humber W. J. “Study Habits Associated with High and Low Scholarship”. J. Educ. Psych., 32, pp. 611–616, 1941.