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Peer reviewedButler, Richard P.; McCauley, Clark – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1987
Compared with data from civilian institutions, data from two graduating classes at the United States Military Academy showed extrordinary stability of independently calculated grade point averages from freshman to senior years and no decline in the validity of Scholastic Aptitude Tests and high school class rank as predictors of these GPAs over…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Correlation, Generalizability Theory, Grade Point Average
Peer reviewedBaron, Jonathan; Norman, M. Frank – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1992
The ability of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), average achievement test scores, and high school class rank to predict students' grades was examined for 3,816 undergraduate students entering the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) in 1983 and 1984. Results suggest that the SAT makes a relatively small contribution to prediction. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Class Rank, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen
Boldt, Robert F. – 1986
This study investigated whether or not the validity of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is both higher and less variable across colleges than it appears to be. Data from 99 validity studies conducted by the Validity Study Service of the College Board were used. In addition to test validities based on first-year college averages, which were…
Descriptors: Class Rank, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Generalization
Download full textSnyder, Vivian; Elmore, Patricia B. – 1983
The sample for this study included 496 students admitted to a large midwestern university through the special admissions program. Validity coefficients of the Descriptive Tests of Language Skills (DTLS) subtests, the Academic Tests of the ACT Assessment Program (ACT), and high school percentile rank were calculated with cumulative grade point…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Rank, College Entrance Examinations, Developmental Studies Programs
Durio, Helen F.; And Others – 1980
Entrance scores on the Mathematics Achievement Test, Level I, and Scholastic Aptitude Test (verbal and mathematical), and high school rank for 2,189 students entering engineering as freshmen at The University of Texas at Austin during the years 1974-1977 were used in regression equations as predictors of academic achievement and retention for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests
Pennock-Roman, Maria – 1990
Six American universities were studied to assess the predictive validity of Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores and other admissions data and of student language background relative to college grades for Hispanic students. Sample sizes at the universities ranged from 76 to 686 for Hispanic subjects and from 924 to 4,919 for White students. The…
Descriptors: Background, Class Rank, College Entrance Examinations, College Students
