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Download full textWestrick, Paul A.; Marini, Jessica P.; Shaw, Emily J. – College Board, 2021
This study explored how the SAT and High School Grade Point Average (HSGPA) can work together to help institutions to confidently admit, place, and support students in their academic majors while promoting student opportunity and success as well as institutional health and success. In particular, this study examined the differential validity of…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Majors (Students), Decision Making, Educational Planning
Clark, Robert M. – 1981
In 1981 a study was conducted at Kings River Community College to determine whether there were student characteristics that could help predict success in a college-level calculus course (Math Analysis I). Subjects for the study included all students enrolled in Math Analysis I in fall 1979 or fall 1980. Student records were examined to establish…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Mathematics, Community Colleges, Educational Background
Jacobs, Lucy Cheser – 1985
Procedures for predicting academic achievement at Indiana University, Bloomington, are examined, based on data for the 4,145 freshmen who entered the university in fall 1983. Three sets of prediction equations and a graphic scheme for determining probable first semester grade point averages (GPAs) for males and females are provided. Entering…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Class Rank, College Freshmen
Sawyer, Richard; Maxey, E. James – 1979
The validity of prediction equations based on American College Testing (ACT) Program test scores and high school grades is investigated. Presented are separate results for prediction equations based on ACT scores only, on high school grades only, and on both kinds of prediction jointly. Also included is a discussion of the relationship between…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen
Stafford, Thomas H., Jr.; Council, Kathryn A. – 1974
As a followup study, the academic performance of 120 black students who entered North Carolina State University as new freshmen in the fall of 1970, 1971, and 1972 was examined in order to determine whether the University Predicted Grade Average (UPGA) equation is biased for black students. Major findings are: (1) for both marginal black students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bias, Black Students, College Admission
Viehe, John Henry – 1975
Differences in academic performance of residents in the various sections and dormitories during the fall semester 1974 at North Carolina State University were studied. Other study objectives were as follows: to develop a methodology to measure academic performance of freshmen residents adjusted for ability, sex, and differential grading…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, College Housing, Comparative Analysis
