THE LINGUISTIC FACTOR IN THE TEST INTELLIGENCE OF WEST AFRICAN CHILDREN

A questionnaire was used to investigate students’ conceptions of an ideal university when they began their university course and again two years later. The results indicated that over a two‐year period the students focused their attention on the academic aspects of university life and progressively de‐emphasized those characteristics which are not central to success on a degree course. This process of focusing or convergence occurred among students in all fields of study. At the same time there was a process of divergence in the educational values of scientists and technologists on the one hand, and arts and social science students on the other. These two groups moved apart during the two‐year period in their conception of an ideal university.