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Attrition in Online and Campus Degree Programs
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Patterson, Belinda; McFadden, Cheryl – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine how the mode of instructional delivery, campus face-to-face or online, affected dropout relative to students' academic and demographic characteristics. A quantitative study was conducted to analyze the academic and demographic characteristics of newly admitted, matriculated degree-seeking students (N = 640)…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Dropouts, Academic Achievement, Business Administration Education
An Empirical Investigation of One Variable Section Pre-Equating.
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Wightman, Linda F.; Wightman, Lawrence E. – 1988
Section Pre-Equating (SPE) is a method used to equate test forms that consist of multiple separately timed sections. SPE does not require examinees to take two complete forms of the test. Instead, all of the old form and one or two sections of the new form are administered to each examinee, and missing data techniques are employed to estimate the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Equated Scores, Estimation (Mathematics)
The GRE and the GMAT: A Comparison of Their Correlations to GGPA.
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Nilsson, Johanna E. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1995
Predictive relationships between the scores of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) and graduate grade point average (GGPA) and the scores of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) and GGPA were studied for 60 college students. The GRE had a stronger correlation to GGPA than the GMAT. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Correlation