The Performance of Students in a Program of Radical Acceleration at the University Level
- 1 October 1985
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gifted Child Quarterly
- Vol. 29 (4) , 175-179
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001698628502900408
Abstract
The academic performance of 24 academically accelerated students (mean age at matriculation = 14 years) was compared with that of two groups of college students averaging four years older: 24 matched to the accelerants on pre-entry academic aptitude test scores (or "readiness"), and 24 National Merit Scholars. Accelerated students earned cumulative grade point averages comparable to those earned by National Merit Scholars and significantly higher than those earned by university students matched on pre-entry aptitude tests scores. Accelerated students rated the importance of academic characteristics higher than did the students matched on pre-entry scores and they were more satisfied with the academic environment of the university than either comparison group. Implications of the results are briefly discussed.Keywords
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