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Direct linkSinicrope, Rose; Eppler, Marion; Preston, Ronald V.; Ironsmith, Marsha – School Science and Mathematics, 2015
The goal of this study was to identify variables related to success and resilience in an undergraduate, high school mathematics teacher education program. Over a five-year period, we tracked the academic performance and achievement motivation goals of multiple cohorts of students. Students who successfully completed their degrees had higher grade…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Curriculum, Success
Johnson, Evelyn; Semmelroth, Carrie – NASSP Bulletin, 2010
The Early Warning System is a tool developed by the National High School Center to collect data on indicators including attendance, grade point average, course failures, and credits earned. These indicators have been found to be highly predictive of a student's likelihood of dropping out of high school in large, urban areas. The Early Warning…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Predictive Validity
Peer reviewedPharr, Steven; And Others – Journal of Education for Business, 1993
College entrance examination scores, sophomore grade point average (GPA), and GPA for prerequisite courses were compared for 483 accounting, management, and economics students. All correlated with academic success, but test scores were less significant than GPAs. Only GPAs demonstrated significant results in predicting academic difficulty. (SK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Admission Criteria, Business Administration Education
Peer reviewedLang, Gale; And Others – Youth and Society, 1988
Examines variables used to predict the academic success or failure of college football players. Valid predictors include the following: (1) high school grades; (2) repeating a year in school; (3) feelings towards school; (4) discipline history; (5) mother's education; and (6) high school background. (FMW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Athletes, College Athletics
Download full textHawaii Univ., Honolulu. Kapiolani Community Coll. – 1980
Based on data collected from the 1,288 students who enrolled at Kapiolani Community College as first-time freshmen in Fall 1979, a study was undertaken to determine the characteristics of new students that are predictive of two dependent variables: (1) second semester enrollment, and (2) a first semester grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 or above.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen
Jones, Jerry L. – 1979
A study was conducted to determine the optimum combination of selected social, academic, and demographic variables to maximally differentiate membership in the successful, unsuccessful, and withdrawal groups of first-year computer programming majors in Virginia community colleges. A questionnaire focusing on 18 selected variables was administered…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Age, Community Colleges
