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Download full textWalton, Kate E.; Allen, Jeff; Burrus, Jeremy; Murano, Dana – ACT, Inc., 2022
Social and emotional (SE) skills are known to be linked with many important life outcomes, including academic performance, performance on standardized college entrance exams, and college enrollment, although research on enrollment is limited. In this report, the authors present data points from a study that evaluated test-criterion validity…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, College Attendance, Postsecondary Education
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
Ferguson, Richard L.; Brennan, Robert L. – 1979
Issues associated with the ACT (American College Testing) Assessment Program illustrate the need to assess college entrance examinations in terms of the variety of common predictive uses such as estimation of first year grade point average (GPA), or chances of obtaining a C average after certain semesters or in specific courses. Test developers…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Grade Point Average, Grade Prediction, Higher Education
PDF pending restorationSawyer, Richard – 1985
Whether adjustments to differential prediction observed among sex, racial/ethnic, or age subgroups in a college-level freshman class could be used to improve grade prediction accuracy for these subgroups in future freshman classes was studied. This study is based on the American College Testing program test scores, high school grades, and college…
Descriptors: Age Groups, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, Ethnic Groups
Dumont, Richard G.; Troelstrup, Richard L. – 1979
A pilot project in performance funding was conducted at Tennessee Technological University. A random sample of 112 seniors participated in a special assessment exercise involving the American College Testing (ACT) Battery and the ACT College Outcome Measures Project. The participants also completed a questionnaire designed to elicit self-reports…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bibliographies, College Students, Conference Reports
Young, John W. – College Entrance Examination Board, 2001
This research report is a review and analysis of all of the published studies during the past 25+ years (since 1974) in the area of differential validity/prediction and college admission testing. More specifically, this report includes 49 separate studies of differences in validity and/or prediction for different racial/ethnic groups and/or for…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Test Validity, Prediction, Educational Research
