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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
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
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
