Deployment Descriptors

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between student performance and selected learner variables, teacher variables, and variations in teaching-learning environments. Particular attention was given to the identification of learner variables associated with performance in 2 different teaching-learning environments: independent study without student-professor contact and the classroom environment involving student-professor contact in which a combination of lecture and discussion was used. Each student in introductory sociology was allowed to choose whether he would be a regular class attender or whether he would he a non-attender (self-study with attendance only for objective tests). Each of these 2 categories was subsequently divided into (1) those who had performed less well. The differences among these 4 categories on mental, demographic, and social-psychological variables were analyzed using the method o