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Direct linkSternberg, Robert J.; Bonney, Christina R.; Gabora, Liane; Merrifield, Maegan – Educational Psychologist, 2012
This article outlines shortcomings of currently used university admissions tests and discusses ways in which they could potentially be improved, summarizing two projects designed to enhance college and university admissions. The projects were inspired by the augmented theory of successful intelligence, according to which successful intelligence…
Descriptors: Intelligence, College Students, Grade Point Average, Prediction
Download full textEducational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1969
This study reports the results of the cluster analysis and a study of the instruments used in the Comparative Guidance Placement Program as they function in each of 20 curricular group clusters. The battery of tests and questionnaires were administered to approximately 6,000 students enrolled in more than 50 different programs within 23…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Grade Point Average, Grade Prediction, Guidance Programs
Eley, Malcolm G.; Meyer, Jan H. F. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
The field trialling of inventory scales reflecting variation in students' mathematics study and learning processes is described. These scales predict learning outcomes (final marks), but with differentiated patterns of relationship to those outcomes. In combination, the scales also detect cohorts of students at risk of study failure. The work…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Learning Processes, Mathematics Education, Individual Differences
Hinkle, Dennis; Houston, Charles A. – 1977
The purpose of this study was to present and evaluate Bayesian-type models for estimating probabilities of program completion and for predicting first quarter grade point averages of community college students entering certain allied health fields. Two Bayesian models were tested. Bayesian Model 1--Estimating Probabilities of Program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Admissions Counseling, Allied Health Occupations Education
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This document describes a model for predicting the success of recent high school graduates in Florida community college business courses. In the development of the model, test scores from the Florida Twelfth Grade Test and grades earned during the senior year by high school graduates from eleven high schools in Brevard County entering their first…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Business Education, Community Colleges
Houston, Charles A.; Sellers, Harry – 1977
Due to factors such as high enrollment demands, limited institutional space, and high program costs, certain admissions requirements in the guidance/selection of students for health technology programs at Virginia Western Community College (VWCC) have become necessary. A Health Technology Admissions Evaluation System was created to develop and…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Admission Criteria, Admissions Counseling, Allied Health Occupations Education
