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ACT Scores Predict Success on the Pre-Professional Skills Test.
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Soules, William P.; And Others – NACADA Journal, 1993
A study of 521 teacher education students taking the Pre-Professional Skills Test (PPST) revealed that students with American College Testing Program (ACT) composite scores of 21 or higher had a high probability of passing all 3 parts of the PPST at the first attempt at a cutoff score of 169. A state testing exemption for such students resulted.…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Administrative Policy, Basic Skills, College Entrance Examinations
Response to "Predictors of Success for Academically Dismissed Students Following Readmission."
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Arndt, J. Richard – NACADA Journal, 1995
A university academic advising coordinator responds to a study of readmission among academically dismissed students, suggesting that while objective measures of success are important, they should not be the sole basis for readmission. Student attitudes, quality of advisor-student interactions, and individual student circumstances are seen as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Academic Failure, Admission Criteria
Using the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory Scores as Additional Predictors of Student Academic Performance.
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Rugsaken, Kris T.; Robertson, Jacqueline A.; Jones, James A. – NACADA Journal, 1998
A study investigated the usefulness of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory in predicting college students' academic performance, focusing on whether the scores enhance the accuracy of traditional predictors such as college entrance examinations and high school rank. Results indicate the scores produce a slight but not significant increase…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Class Rank, College Bound Students
Predictors of Persistence and Success in an Engineering Program.
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Levin, James; Wyckoff, John H. – NACADA Journal, 1995
A study (n=510) investigated students' cognitive and noncognitive variables predicting success and persistence in an undergraduate engineering program. Students performing well in science and mathematics and genuinely interested in engineering were more likely to persist and succeed. Predictor variables changed over the students' first two years.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, College Students