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Download full textKellner, Marlene F. – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2019
Currently, a school of nursing in the Northeastern United States is using the Test for Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) examination to help determine which applicants to accept into their nursing programs. To date, there are no statistically significant data to correlate the use of this exam with the selection of applicants who successfully enter…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Predictor Variables, Nursing Education, Nursing Students
Direct linkKellner, Marlene F. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Currently, the same criteria are being used for admissions into nursing programs in one school of nursing in the Northeastern United States. To date there are no statistically significant data to correlate these criteria with successfully entering the nursing profession. Due to the nursing shortage, limited number of seats available in nursing…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Predictor Variables, Nursing Education, Nursing Students
Smith, Barbara A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Nursing program administrators need to identify significant predictors for associate degree nursing (ADN) students to determine characteristics of those who will most likely pass the NCLEX-RN® on the first attempt. The purpose of the quantitative study with a correlation prediction design was to determine if a relationship existed between the…
Descriptors: Licensing Examinations (Professions), Nursing Students, Nursing, Nursing Education
Patton, Bess Llewellyn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The framework for this study used Tinto's (1975) theoretical framework for student persistence and incorporated the examination of high school wealth, the absence of poverty, as measured by the percentage of students receiving Federal Free and Reduced Lunch, along with North Carolina Department of Public School performance measures, academic…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, High Schools, Poverty, Low Income Groups
Elkins, Nancy – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The current nursing shortage has challenged colleges to educate nurses at a faster pace than in previous times. Successful completion of the nursing programs and passing the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) exam is important for the students, faculty, and nursing programs. The purpose of this retrospective…
Descriptors: Nurses, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Nursing Education, College Seniors
Parrott-Robbins, Rebecca Jon – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate--by utilizing data obtained from the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) PeopleSoft database-- whether the American College Testing (ACT) assessment was a predictor of student success for students who had graduated from respiratory, radiography, and nursing programs at Southeast…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Technical Institutes, Grade Point Average, Multiple Regression Analysis
Peer reviewedHalpin, Gerald; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1976
The incremental effectiveness of the American College Testing Program Examination (ACT) is studied along with the effectiveness of the ACT alone and of high school grade-point average alone in predicting differential success in a three year nurses' training program for 199 students over a 10-year period. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade Point Average, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies
