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Marnewick, Carl – Educational Studies, 2012
First-year students are still failing at an alarming rate. This is an international issue that universities face and there is currently no clear indication of the cause of the problem as universities move from being elite to providing mass education. This article examines the possible correlation between students' high school performance and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Correlation, Mathematics Achievement
Gross, Alan L.; And Others – 1993
A statistical model for investigating predictive validity at highly selective institutions is described. When the selection ratio is small, one must typically deal with a data set containing relatively large amounts of missing data on both criterion and predictor variables. Standard statistical approaches are based on the strong assumption that…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Algorithms, Competitive Selection, Higher Education
Klitgaard, Robert E.; And Others – 1978
Studies were conducted to determine whether measures of intellectual merit that are used as criteria for admission to the University of Karachi in Pakistan have predictive validity. The predictive validity of the intermediate examination score was studied with recent graduates of the pharmacy, medicine, and engineering schools. Additional studies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Case Studies, College Admission