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Holen, Michael C.; Newhouse, Michael C. – Journal of Educational Research, 1976
Testing indicated that college students could predict their own academic achievement with accuracy equivalent to that achieved with other predictor variables such as grade point averages. (GW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Grade Prediction, Predictor Variables
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Wang, Margaret C. – Journal of Educational Research, 1973
The present study, designed as a pilot study to provide an empirical basis for modifying the PEP testing program, investigated the possibility that teachers could accurately evaluate learning progress without formal testing. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Individualized Instruction, Pilot Projects, Prediction
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Edwards, Ronald R. – Journal of Educational Research, 1972
It was concluded that prediction of success in remedial mathematics courses can be made correctly 71 percent of the time using five select predictors: high school average, mathematics test score, attitude toward mathematics score, sentence test score, and mathematics interest score. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Community Colleges, Multiple Regression Analysis, Prediction
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Biggs, Donald A.; Johnson, James – Journal of Educational Research, 1972
Study concerned with identifying and measuring self-made academic predictions of entering junior college freshmen and with relating these predictions to past and future academic performance, as well as to measures of scholastic aptitude. (Authors)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Data Analysis, Prediction
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Barnett, Jerrold E.; Hixon, Jon E. – Journal of Educational Research, 1997
Interviews with elementary students before and after tests in three subjects investigated how grade level and subject affected students' ability to predict test scores. Results found a significant grade-subject area interaction for predictions prior to testing. Posttest predictions differed only slightly from pretest. Prediction accuracy was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Course Content, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students