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Ewing, Gordon J. – 1986
This study was designed to help students decide whether or not to register for a general chemistry course. High school grade point averages (GPAs) and American College Testing (ACT) scores were obtained on over 600 students from New Mexico State University and were entered into correlation analysis with chemistry grades. A "Chemistry…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Chemistry, College Science, Grade Prediction
Peer reviewedFrancisca, M.; And Others – Physics Education, 1986
Analyzes data presented in a recent article (EJ 328 649) examining the relationship between A-level physics and mathematics and degree performance in engineering or physics. A grade of A in A-level physics predicted first class degree performance. (JM)
Descriptors: College Science, Data Analysis, Engineering, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHall, Frances R.; Bailey, Beth A. – Academic Medicine, 1992
This study of 420 entering students at Dartmouth Medical School (New Hampshire) found that a combination of criteria such as Medical College Admission Test scores, undergraduate science grade averages, and college selectivity was useful in identifying successful first-year students. Results also indicated that the admissions committee…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
Jacobs, Lucy Cheser – 1985
Procedures for predicting academic achievement at Indiana University, Bloomington, are examined, based on data for the 4,145 freshmen who entered the university in fall 1983. Three sets of prediction equations and a graphic scheme for determining probable first semester grade point averages (GPAs) for males and females are provided. Entering…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Class Rank, College Freshmen
Davenport, William S. – 1990
In an effort to encourage the growth and maturity of its students, Broome Community College in New York abolished its attendance policy. For the past 7 years, both attendance rates and grade point averages (GPA's) of students at the college had been dropping. In 1990, a study was conducted at BCC to determine if there was a measurable relationship…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Community Colleges
Download full textMaryland State Higher Education Commission, Annapolis. – 1997
This study examined the relationship between students' academic performance in high school vis-a-vis their performance in the first year at college. The study analyzed data on students who graduated from Maryland high schools in the 1994-95 academic year and who were enrolled in 2- and 4-year Maryland public institutions or in one of 11…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, College Freshmen, College Outcomes Assessment
