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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
Koys, Daniel – Journal of Education for Business, 2010
The author found that the GPA at the end of the MBA program is most accurately predicted by the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). MBA GPA is also predicted, though less accurately, by the Scholastic Level Exam, a mathematics test, undergraduate GPA, and previous career progression. If…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Predictive Validity, Prediction, Foreign Countries
Download full textPaszczyk, Sandra L. – 1994
This study examined whether American College Testing (ACT) scores are a reliable predictor of college success using data on Chicago State University (CSU) graduates. The study used data on all undergraduates who had successfully completed a degree program and graduated in one of nine successive terms between Fall 1990 and Fall 1993 and also had an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Grade Point Average, Higher Education
Pugh, Richard C.; And Others – 1970
The primary aim of this study was to determine whether College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) Achievement Test results provide additional information for the prediction of academic success beyond the normal data accumulated. The study presents two types of evidence: (1) a prediction of first semester grade point averages (GPA), and (2) a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Freshmen, Grade Point Average
Peer reviewedBolig, John R.; Fletcher, Gerald O. – Educational Leadership, 1973
Compares the Metropolitan Readiness Test with the opinion a parent or teacher has of a child for predicting success in the first grade. Results of a two year study are analyzed. (RK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Educational Research, Elementary School Students
Bragg, Jane K. – 1971
Six formulas designed to predict reading capacity were compared by correlating each with actual reading performance. Two of the formulas, the Science Research Associates Tests of General Ability (TOGA) and the Harris Formula, are based on mental age only; the third, the Los Angeles Formula, employs both mental and chronological age; the fourth,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Dees, James W.; Dufilho, L. Paul – 1975
This report summarizes the techniques used in gathering and maintaining a data file on most of the Army aviator trainees who have been through the Officer/Warrant Officer Rotary Wing Aviator Course and the Warrant Officer Candidate Course during the period 1 July 1968-31 December 1969. Specific regression analyses dealing with the prediction of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Collection, Demography, Failure
