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Wittman, Donald – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2022
I show that there are better measures of student college performance than grade point average (GPA) by undertaking a fine-grained empirical investigation of grading within a large public university. The value of using GPA as a measure of comparative performance is undermined by academically weaker students taking courses where the grading is more…
Descriptors: College Students, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables