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Linking PARCC and MAP Assessments for Students in Montgomery County Public Schools. Applied Research
Download full textWang, Helen Y.; Zhao, Huafang; Addison, Kecia L. – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2016
The Office of Shared Accountability (OSA) in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) conducted a linking study to examine the relationship of the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment with the Common Core Consortia Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) assessment in the 2014-2015 school year. This is the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Accountability, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
Peer reviewedHumphreys, Lloyd G.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1973
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)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, College Entrance Examinations, Grades (Scholastic), Prediction
Peer reviewedSockloff, Alan L.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1973
The prediction of academic achievement within a single university was improved by adjusting predictions on the basis of a multiplicative weight which measures the relative mean success of former graduates from each of the various feeder high schools. (Authors)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, High Schools, Institutional Characteristics
Peer reviewedConger, Anthony J.; Jackson, Douglas N. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1972
Paper discusses the nature of the suppressor variable, constraints upon the degree of gain in predictability by the addition of a suppressor, and the distinct aims of prediction and of construct measurement. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Correlation, Definitions, Prediction, Predictive Validity
Peer reviewedKahneman, Daniel; Tversky, Amos – Psychological Review, 1973
In this paper, we explore the rules that determine intuitive predictions and judgments of confidence and contrast these rules to the normative principles of statistical prediction. (Author)
Descriptors: Correlation, Evaluation, Personality Assessment, Prediction
Campbell, Bruce A. – 1976
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between psychological traits and voting behavior. Investigated is the thesis that psychological traits are useful concepts for political scientists as predictors of consistency in behavior. Contending that previous trait theory research has been generally unimpressive, the author…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Personality Studies
Rounds, James B., Jr.; Dawis, Rene V. – 1975
The report is concerned with the feasibility of matching people and jobs as proposed by the Theory of Work Adjustment; according to the third proposition of this theory, satisfaction is a function of the correspondence between the reinforcer system of the work environment and the individual's needs, with certain qualification. In the study, the…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Job Placement, Job Satisfaction, Need Gratification
Vogt, Dave – 1977
The objective of this study was to devise a methodology for predicting the return or nonreturn of a student for the spring semester, upon his completion of the fall term. Nineteen variables from existing student files were examined by several multivariate analyses to determine their ability to help in such a prediction. The random sample was of…
Descriptors: College Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Higher Education
Angoff, William H., Ed. – 1971
This report was prepared for the specialist who, well acquainted with the concepts and statistics of educational measurement, needs technical information about the Admissions Testing Program of the College Entrance Examination Board. It brings together the findings of a considerable number of studies of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), College Bound Students
Fincher, Cameron – 1983
A study examined the predictive efficiency of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) for adult learners in the University System of Georgia (USGA). Also investigated during the study were the effects of variables such as age, sex, and race on the performance of adult learners on the SAT and in college and the relative academic performance of adult…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Students, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations
