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Crouch, Suzanne J. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2015
The purpose of this study was to assess the merit of the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal as a pre-admission criterion in conjunction with the frequently utilized admission criteria of the college prerequisite grade point average and the National League of Nursing pre-admission test. Data were collected from 192 first-year nursing…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Success, Predictor Variables, Admission Criteria
Bozick, Robert; Gonzalez, Gabriella; Engberg, John – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2015
The Pittsburgh Promise is a scholarship program that provides $5,000 per year toward college tuition for public high school graduates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who earned a 2.5 GPA and a 90% attendance record. This study used a difference-in-difference design to assess whether the introduction of the Promise scholarship program directly…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, College Bound Students, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Management
Schwartz, Sandra – Contributions to Music Education, 2013
Vocal demands of teaching are considerable and these challenges are greater for choral directors who depend on the voice as a musical and instructive instrument. The purpose of this study was to (1) examine choral directors' vocal condition using a modified Voice Handicap Index (VHI), and (2) determine the extent to which the major variables…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Music Activities, Music Education, Music Teachers
Moosai, Susan; Walker, David A.; Floyd, Deborah L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
Prediction models using graduation rate as the performance indicator were obtained for community colleges in California, Florida, and Michigan. The results of this study indicated that institutional graduation rate could be predicted effectively from an aggregate of student and institutional characteristics. A performance measure was computed, the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, Institutional Evaluation, Institutional Characteristics
Speroni, Cecilia – National Center for Postsecondary Research, 2011
Advanced Placement (AP) and Dual Enrollment (DE) are two programs that allow high school students to earn college credits. The recent growth of these programs has been unprecedented. However, there is little evidence that compares how they fare in terms of improving college access and success. Using data from two cohorts of all high school…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, College Credits, Dual Enrollment, High School Students
Froman, Terry; Rubiera, Vilma – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2007
Although students have been taking the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) Science test for a few years, the State included the performance on the Science test in the school grade calculations for the first time in 2006-07. Although no official guidelines exist presently, the Science scores may also be incorporated in the NCLB Adequately…
Descriptors: Prediction, Science Tests, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Achievement
Ammons, Rose Mary – 1971
In an effort to examine the variables contributing to academic persistence, 1,691 St. Petersburg (Florida) Junior College (SPJC) students (960 male and 731 female) were tested two years after their initial enrollment. Ten cognitive variables and 15 non-cognitive variables were examined to determine their relationship to persistence, defined as the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Dropout Research, Persistence
Harris, Douglas N.; Sass, Tim R. – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2009
Mounting pressure in the policy arena to improve teacher productivity either by improving signals that predict teacher performance or through creating incentive contracts based on performance--has spurred two related questions: Are there important determinants of teacher productivity that are not captured by teacher credentials but that can be…
Descriptors: Credentials, Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Skills, Principals
Hafner, Lawrence E. – 1991
A study developed a multiple regression prediction equation for each of six selected achievement variables in a popular standardized test of achievement. Subjects, 42 fourth-grade pupils randomly selected across several classes in a large elementary school in a north Florida city, were administered several standardized tests to determine predictor…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Listening Skills, Multiple Regression Analysis
1975
This document describes a model for predicting the success of recent high school graduates in Florida community college business courses. In the development of the model, test scores from the Florida Twelfth Grade Test and grades earned during the senior year by high school graduates from eleven high schools in Brevard County entering their first…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Business Education, Community Colleges