This article is concerned with developing a measure of general academic ability (GAA) for high school graduates who apply to colleges, as well as with the identification of optimal weights of the GAA indicators in a linear combination that yields a composite score with maximal reliability and maximal predictive validity, employing the framework of…

Response styles, the tendency to respond to Likert-type items irrespective of content, are a widely known threat to the reliability and validity of self-report measures. However, it is still debated how to measure and control for response styles such as extreme responding. Recently, multiprocess item response theory models have been proposed that…

The validity of Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) scores is examined by summarizing 273 studies conducted between 1997 and 2004. Each of the studies was conducted through the Validity Study Service of the test sponsor and contained identical variables and statistical methods. Validity coefficients from each of the studies were corrected…

This study investigated convergent validity evidence for student growth scores with high school course grades. The Measures of Academic Progress and Educational Planning and Assessment System growth scores for approximately 1,800 ninth-grade students over 2 years were related to language, arts, and mathematics course grades for developmental,…

A rational approach to standard transformed scores which always results in the numerical to letter grade correspondence for any chosen hypothetical grade distribution model is developed. (Author/LMO)

The Achievement Motivation Scale, a brief, non-theoretical self-report measure, was administered to ten classes of undergraduates at two universities. Results supported other findings suggesting that the scale is useful in predicting college grades even when combined with high school grade point average and a scholastic aptitude test. (Author/JKS)

Determines (1) degree of relationship between selected objective background variables and academic achievement in an upper-division bachelors degree program in nursing, (2) which variables would add to the efficiency of a regression function for predicting achievement, and (3) what the accuracy of this optimum regression function would be. (RC)

This study investigated the criterion-related validity of the Musical Aptitude Profile in relation to achievement in freshman music theory as determined by semester grades in the courses and by grades in three course components (paperwork, sight-singing and ear-training). (Author/BS)

A procedure and a computing diagram for assigning score boundaries to grading categories on classroom tests are described. The procedure takes both the median ability level of the class and the test performance of the class relative to that of other classes into account. (Author)

The hypothesis tested in this study: that high and low academic promise groups might show differing levels of predictability of their college grades from standard entrance measures. (Authors)

Grade point average for a sample of graduate school of education students was more accurately predicted from undergraduate grade point average than from part of total scores on the Undergraduate Record Examination. However, the Advance Education examination of the Undergraduate Record Examination did improve the prediction equation. (Author/JKS)

Configurational frequency analysis is suggested as a technique for longitudinal research in educational psychology. Testing for types of change of ratings (grades) and for ratings of change is illustrated by data from three courses in statistics from a cohort of 128 students at Marburg University in West Germany. (TJH)