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GMAT and Other Determinants of GPA in an MBA Program
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Fairfield-Sonn, James W.; Kolluri, Bharat; Singamsetti, Rao; Wahab, Mahmoud – American Journal of Business Education, 2010
This paper reports on the influence of waiving the GMAT requirement on academic performance as measured by grade-point-average at graduation for 833 University of Hartford MBA students who graduated between 2003 and 2009. In seeking to better understand what factors might be influencing graduation GPA, we examined a variety of traditional…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Business Administration Education, Grade Point Average
Predicting Performance of MBA Students: Comparing the Part-Time MBA Program and the One-Year Program
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Fish, Lynn A.; Wilson, F. Scott – College Student Journal, 2009
While predictor variables for success in MBA programs vary between schools, are they different within the same business school? At an AACSB-accredited school, although the curriculum and professors are essentially the same between the One-Year MBA and Part-Time MBA programs, the significant factors to predict success in each program are not.…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Predictor Variables, Program Effectiveness, Business Administration Education
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
The Validity of the Graduate Management Admissions Test for Non-U.S. Students
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Koys, Daniel J. – Journal of Education for Business, 2005
In this study, the author examined the validity of the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) for non-U.S. students (N = 75) through a predictive validation procedure in which applicants were given the predictor test but the test results were not used to admit students. The author's business school admitted students to three overseas MBA…
Descriptors: Test Results, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Predictive Validity
The Best Linear Predictor for True Score from a Direct Estimate and Several Derived Estimates. Research Report. ETS RR-04-35
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Haberman, Shelby J.; Qian, Jiahe – ETS Research Report Series, 2004
Statistical prediction problems often involve both a direct estimate of a true score and covariates of this true score. Given the criterion of mean squared error, this study determines the best linear predictor of the true score given the direct estimate and the covariates. Results yield an extension of Kelley's formula for estimation of the true…
Descriptors: True Scores, Computation, Predictor Variables, Correlation
Predicting Academic Success of Students in a Master of Business Administration Program.
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Graham, Lawrence D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1991
Selection criteria at a graduate school of business were examined in a study evaluating the predictive validity of the Graduate Management Admissions Test and the Miller Analogies Test for 203 recent graduates. Implications of the correlations between test results and grade point average for admission policy are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Business Administration Education, College Entrance Examinations