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Miller, Carol; Meier, Robert – 1974
Two approaches were used to predict State Board Examinations (SBE) results for students in four schools of nursing. Multiple regression was used to predict scores of 191 nurses who graduated and took the SBE. Discriminant function analysis was used for 375 nursing students to predict students who would take and pass the SBE from those who would…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Associate Degrees, Expectation, Grade Point Average

Hess, Jonathan H.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1983
For 224 freshmen students, the degree of relationship was sought between two criterion measures (grade point average (GPA) and units satisfactorily completed) and four cognitive and eleven affective variables. High school GPA was the most valid predictor; affective variables explained only 40-60 percent as much variance as high school GPA.…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Cognitive Ability, College Credits, College Freshmen