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Using Multiple Measures to Make Math Placement Decisions: Implications for Access and Success in Community Colleges
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Ngo, Federick; Kwon, William W. – Research in Higher Education, 2015
Community college students are often placed in developmental math courses based on the results of a single placement test. However, concerns about accurate placement have recently led states and colleges across the country to consider using other measures to inform placement decisions. While the relationships between college outcomes and such…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Success, Community Colleges, Mathematics Education
Compass and Prerequisite Course Scores as Predictors of Success in Practical Nursing School
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Pritchard, Toni L. Early – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The nursing shortage is compounded by nursing student attrition. Schools of nursing have limited enrollment, making the admission process an important factor in resolving the ongoing nursing shortage. The purpose of this study was to identify preadmission criteria that accurately identify applicants to practical/vocational nursing (P/VN) schools…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Admission Criteria, Predictive Validity, Prerequisites
Background and Interest Measures as Predictors of Success in Undergraduate Pilot Training. Final Report.
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Guinn, Nancy; And Others – 1976
A sample of 593 pilot trainees in Officer Training School were administered the Strong Vocational Interest Blank and the Officer Biographical and Attitudinal Survey. Their performance in pilot training was monitored in order to assess the effectiveness of biographical, attitudinal, and interest data in predicting pilot training criteria. Using…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Biographical Inventories, Flight Training, Higher Education
An Aptitude-Test Battery for Court-Reporter Training: Initial Results of a Longitudinal Validation Study.
Jacobsen, Linda S.; Borchardt, Gordon C. – 1980
In order to identify a battery of aptitude tests which could adequately predict the success of applicants to its court-reporting program, MacCormac Junior College contracted with Science Research Associates in Fall 1976 to conduct a longitudinal validation study of court-reporting aptitude measures. Eight tests were administered to each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admissions Counseling, Aptitude Tests, Clerical Occupations