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Direct linkTomlin Gagen; Farahnaz Faez – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Thousands of education institutions worldwide rely on IELTS scores as criteria for accepting international students whose first language is not English. Individual studies have found varying degrees of strength of correlations and conflicting results between IELTS entry scores and subsequent academic success. These conflicting results were…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Scores, Correlation, Higher Education
Download full textYork, Travis T.; Gibson, Charles; Rankin, Susan – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2015
Despite, and perhaps because of its amorphous nature, the term "academic success" is one of the most widely used constructs in educational research and assessment within higher education. This paper conducts an analytic literature review to examine the use and operationalization of the term in multiple academic fields. Dominant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Educational Research
Murphy, Sara C.; Klieger, David M.; Borneman, Matthew J.; Kuncel, Nathan R. – College and University, 2009
Personal statements are a widely used and popular predictor in academic admissions; however, relatively little is known about their effectiveness as a predictor of student performance. This study involved a meta-analysis of the relationships of personal statements to measures of student performance (e.g., GPA) and other predictors. An initial…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Faculty Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement
Cobb, Brian; Lehmann, Jean; Newman-Gonchar, Rebecca; Alwell, Morgen – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2009
Seven narrative and systematic reviews published since 2000 and focusing on self-determination for individuals with disabilities are reviewed in this narrative metasynthesis. The authors distinguish their work from other metasynthesis work by calling it a "narrative metasynthesis" because they include both narrative reviews and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Self Determination, Personal Narratives, Meta Analysis
Peer reviewedCampbell, Arthur Ree; Dickson, Charlie J. – Journal of Professional Nursing, 1996
An analysis of 47 nursing research studies from 1981-90 related to predicting student success was conducted. Grade point average in nursing and science courses was the greatest cognitive predictor, parental education and age the greatest demographic predictors. Meta-analysis of four studies showed the significant effectiveness of interventions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Grade Point Average, Higher Education
Peer reviewedLinn, Robert L.; Hastings, C. Nicholas – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1984
Using predictive validity studies of the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) and the undergraduate grade-point average (UGPA), this study examined the large variation in the magnitude of the validity coefficients across schools. LSAT standard deviation and correlation between LSAT and UGPA accounted for 58.5 percent of the variability. (Author/EGS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Applicants, College Entrance Examinations, Grade Point Average
Hand, Carol A.; Prather, James E. – 1986
This paper investigates the problems of the impact of grouping on measuring academic performance. It focuses on inferences made from the group level to the individual level. Data for a large state college system with over 30 individual colleges is used. The problem of aggregation bias is studied using the analysis of covariance and is related to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Cluster Grouping, College Entrance Examinations
