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Shuster, Kate – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
Using the nationally representative, cohort-based data of the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:02), this study employs multiple regression to examine the effects of exit exams on student achievement and school completion. This study finds that exit exams as a whole do not have substantial effects on student achievement in mathematics,…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Tests
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Carbuhn, Wayne M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1970
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Job Training, Norms, Predictive Validity
Cervero, Ronald – 1977
A study was conducted to develop an instrument which would require a relatively short time to complete and would predict an adult's probable performance on a five-part General Educational Development (GED) test. It was believed that the cloze procedure (a measure of reading comprehension in which every fifth word is deleted from a reading passage…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Educational Research, Equivalency Tests, Predictive Measurement
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Sharon, Amiel T. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1972
Social Studies was the best predictor in the two-year colleges whereas Literature was the most predictive of success in the four-year colleges. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Equivalency Tests, Grade Point Average