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Payne, David A.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1973
Assesses the effectiveness of a factored biographical inventory in predicting freshman GPAs, and suggests that biodata be considered in college selection. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biographical Inventories, College Choice, College Freshmen
Peer reviewedBrush, Donald H.; Schoenfeldt, Lyle F. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1979
The relationships among measures of vocational interest, life history data, educational performance, and number of courses taken (by area) were explored in a college freshman sample of 1,892 students. Canonical correlation analysis was used to uncover and describe the major relationships among the variable sets. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biographical Inventories, Correlation, Credit Courses
Download full textRock, Donald A. – 1974
First-year graduate students were asked to respond to a biographical questionnaire which emphasized motivational variables in addition to the usual demographic variables. It was hypothesized that the students could select from a group of ability measures the one best indicator of how well they would do in graduate school. To test this hypothesis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Biographical Inventories
