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Predicting Grades from an English Language Assessment: The Importance of Peeling the Onion
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Bridgeman, Brent; Cho, Yeonsuk; DiPietro, Stephen – Language Testing, 2016
Data from 787 international undergraduate students at an urban university in the United States were used to demonstrate the importance of separating a sample into meaningful subgroups in order to demonstrate the ability of an English language assessment to predict the first-year grade point average (GPA). For example, when all students were pooled…
Descriptors: Grade Prediction, English Curriculum, Language Tests, Undergraduate Students
Test of English as a Foreign Language as a Moderator of Graduate Record Examinations Scores in the Prediction of Foreign Students' Grades in Graduate School.
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Sharon, Amiel T. – 1971
Scores of foreign graduate students on the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude Tests and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) were combined through multiple and moderated regression to predict grade-point average (GPA). It was hypothesized that TOEFL would moderate the relationship between the GRE scores and GPA. According to…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Grade Point Average
TOEFL Performance and Success in a Masters Program in Engineering.
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Ayers, Jerry B.; Quattlebaum, Rebecca F. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1992
The relationship between grade point average (GPA) and scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) for 60 male and 7 female Asian graduate students in engineering was studied. The TOEFL is not an effective predictor of total GPA, although it measures English communication skills. (SLD)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Engineering, English (Second Language), Foreign Students