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Crooks, Terence J. – 1980
Six widely used college admissions variables and four course-specific measures (tests of entering mathematical skills and physics knowledge, and indexes of previous study of mathematics and physics) were correlated with final marks for 495 students in an introductory college physics course. The college admissions variables included scores on…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Class Rank, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
Peer reviewedZimmerman, Allen – Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2000
Describes a journal-based orientation course at a small, public two-year technical college. Reports on a study of 160 students which found that the orientation-course grade was a better predictor of student success (as measured by timely graduation and grade point average) than high school rank and far superior to the American College Testing…
Descriptors: Class Rank, College Freshmen, Grade Point Average, Grade Prediction
Peer reviewedFriedman, Charles P.; Bakewell, William E., Jr. – Journal of Medical Education, 1980
An analysis of the new Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and its relationship to the criterion of class standing achieved in the school year ending in the spring of 1979 has been undertaken by the University of California, Irvine, to determine the MCAT's predictive power so that test results can be used in admissions procedure. (Author/JMD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Rank, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
Download full textHouse, J. Daniel – 1994
This study investigated the efficacy of noncognitive variables and academic background for the prediction of college grade performance and persistence. A total of 7,377 new first-year college students participated in the study, completing demographic questionnaires at the start of the school year. Data were also collected on American College Test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Class Rank, College Freshmen
Durio, Helen F.; And Others – 1980
Entrance scores on the Mathematics Achievement Test, Level I, and Scholastic Aptitude Test (verbal and mathematical), and high school rank for 2,189 students entering engineering as freshmen at The University of Texas at Austin during the years 1974-1977 were used in regression equations as predictors of academic achievement and retention for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests
