Teachers’ Ratings of High-School Students on “Likability” and their Relation to Measures of Ability and Achievement

Williams, J. R.; Knecht, Walter W.

doi:10.1080/00220671.1962.10882911

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“…There seems to be general agreement between these findings and those of Buswell (1953) and Williams and Knecht (1962). Also, this study gives support to the kind of assumption used by Fox and Segel (1954) ; specifically, academic performance is an index of social adjustment.…”

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Peer Evaluation And Academic Performance

Muma

1965

The Personnel and Guidance Journal

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This study tests the general hypothesis that academic performance is related to extremes in peer choice (high acceptance, high rejection, and neglect) of junior and senior high school students. The 3,917 students of 7 junior and senior high schools were tested sociometrically to measure peer choice. Academic performance of individuals who were highly accepted, highly rejected, neglected, and within a control group was studied. The findings support the hypothesis that academic performance is related to extremes in peer choice.

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“…She tentatively suggested that academic achievement, as she considered it, precedes rather than follows social acceptability. Williams and Knecht (1962) studied likability and academic success, and concluded that ". .…”

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Peer Evaluation And Academic Performance

Muma

1965

The Personnel and Guidance Journal

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“…All subjects were evaluated before, and at the end of the study by means of a “Behavior Rating Scale” developed prior to the study and specifically for use with geriatric patients. This scaling method has been called by Guilford (5) the method of “successive categories” and the operation involved is described by him as being essentially “that of judging each of several stimuli as belonging in one of a number of categories differing quantitatively along a defined continuum.” The senior author had used this rating method in several previous studies (6–8) to obtain measures of such variables as conflict, likability, and school motivation.…”

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