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Peer reviewedMusgrove, Walter J.; Musgrove, Glenn J. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1979
This study attempts to determine the relationship between the subtests of the General Education Performance Index (GEPI) and the revised version of the General Educational Development Test (GED), and reports a technique whereby performance on the GEPI may be used to predict performance on the GED. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Correlation, High School Equivalency Programs, Multiple Regression Analysis
Peer reviewedMoore, Ray T.; Davies, Jon A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1984
Prediction of General Educational Development (GED) scores from motivational variables derived from Vroom's expectancy-valence theorem was hypothesized. The Tests of Adult Basic Education score, General Aptitude Test Battery score, MD1 expectancy subscale score, and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory defensiveness score accounted for…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, High School Equivalency Programs, Motivation, Multiple Regression Analysis
The Use of a Qualifying Instrument To Determine Success on the General Educational Development Test.
Download full textSua, Dangbe Wuo – 1990
Because prisoners are often denied a chance to take the General Educational Development (GED) test because of low scores on the General Education Performance Index (GEPI), a study was conducted to determine whether total standard scores on the GEPI of 220 or greater could be used to predict total standard scores of 220 or greater on the GED test.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Correctional Education, High School Equivalency Programs, Predictive Validity
West, Ellen M.; Lagotic, Diana L. – 1978
In an effort to minimize initial testing of adult students, a ten-item "Adult Reading Survey" was developed to measure self-perception as related to reading ability. Survey responses of 184 adult education students ranging in age from 15 to 68 were correlated to reading test results to determine levels of accuracy. Portions of two tests, the "Test…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adults, High School Equivalency Programs, Measurement Instruments
Wolf, John C. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1983
Investigated the predictive value of the high school level battery of tests of General Educational Development (GED) for two-year college academic performance, using a sample of GED freshmen (N=300). The GED proved to be a valid predictor of first semester grade point average. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Admissions Counseling, College Freshmen
Venezky, Richard L.; And Others – 1993
A study evaluated different approaches to placing students in adult literacy classes using 168 adult basic education (ABE) and General Educational Development (GED) students. Students in classes at Rochambeau School in White Plains, New York, were given the Tests of Adult Basic Education (TABE), the Tests of Adult Literacy Skills (TALS), an oral…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Educational Testing
Segal, Susan – 1988
Deficiencies in the format, content, and predictive validity of a high school credit-by-examination test in Spanish I were addressed in a study of the proposed adoption of the Level-1 1988 National Spanish Examination (NSE) and a 20-item supplement written by S. Segal that required students to write one-word answers. The NSE, sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs, High School Students, High Schools
