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Chet Robie; Sabah Rasheed; Stephen D. Risavy; Piers Steel – International Journal of Testing, 2024
This meta-analysis examined the validity of an alternative to traditional assessments called the Wonderlic which is a brief measure of general mental ability. Our results showed significant, positive correlations between Wonderlic scores and academic performance in general ([r-bar] = 0.26), between Wonderlic scores and undergraduate GPA in…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Test Validity, Alternative Assessment, Scores
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Galla, Brian M.; Shulman, Elizabeth P.; Plummer, Benjamin D.; Gardner, Margo; Hutt, Stephen J.; Goyer, J. Parker; D'Mello, Sidney K.; Finn, Amy S.; Duckworth, Angela L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
Compared with admissions test scores, why are high school grades better at predicting college graduation? We argue that success in college requires not only cognitive ability but also self-regulatory competencies that are better indexed by high school grades. In a national sample of 47,303 students who applied to college for the 2009/2010 academic…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Predictor Variables, Time to Degree, Scores