Venables, Ethel

Intelligence and motivation among day-release students. / Selected of papers by Ethel Venables - Great Britain: NFER Publishing Company, c1974. - 173 p.: 21cm.

Contents: Introduction -- The Reserve of ability in part-time technical college courses -- Placement problems in part-time engineering courses -- Placement problems among engineering apprentices in part-time technical college courses (part I and II) -- Changes in intelligence test scores of engineering apprentices between the first and third years of attendance at college -- Relationship between the intelligence of technical college students and size of family -- Success in technical college courses according to size of firm -- Social differences among day-release students in relation to their recruitment and examination success -- Differences between verbal and non-verbal ability in relation to personality scores among part-time day-release students -- The Human costs of part-time day-release -- Education for living.

Motivation in education.

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