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Smith, Barbara A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Nursing program administrators need to identify significant predictors for associate degree nursing (ADN) students to determine characteristics of those who will most likely pass the NCLEX-RNĀ® on the first attempt. The purpose of the quantitative study with a correlation prediction design was to determine if a relationship existed between the…
Descriptors: Licensing Examinations (Professions), Nursing Students, Nursing, Nursing Education
Biegert, Lydia E.; Withrow, M. Jean – 1978
The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an audio-visual instrument in teaching psychopharmacology to high and low achieving associate degree nursing students at Alvin Community College (Texas). Students were grouped as either high or low achieving according to their scores on an American College Testing (ACT) program test…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Community Colleges, Conventional Instruction, High Achievement
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Halpin, Gerald; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1976
The incremental effectiveness of the American College Testing Program Examination (ACT) is studied along with the effectiveness of the ACT alone and of high school grade-point average alone in predicting differential success in a three year nurses' training program for 199 students over a 10-year period. (Author/DEP)
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade Point Average, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies
Keene, James W. – 1968
A followup study of the 1966 and 1967 graduates of the registered nurses program at Foothill College (Calif.) sought to identify characteristics which distinguished students who completed the program from those who did not graduate, analyze scores on the state licensing examination for the licensing of nurses to determine what significant…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research