High School and College Grades: Is Past Performance a Predictor of Future Performance?

Autor/inn/en	Fletcher, John T.; Halpin, Gerald; Halpin, Glennelle
Titel	High School and College Grades: Is Past Performance a Predictor of Future Performance?
Quelle	(1999), (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Persistence; College Students; Engineering; Grade Point Average; Higher Education; Prediction; Predictor Variables; Student Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Maschinenbau; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Vorhersage; Prädiktor
Abstract	Whether a set of predictor variables could be identified from pre-enrollment and post-enrollment data that would differentiate students who advance to a major in engineering from those who do not was studied with students at Auburn University, Alabama. Also studied was whether predictors could be isolated that would identify students likely to graduate with another major and whether any relationship exists between the grades earned by students and 15 courses selected from the pre-engineering curriculum. Participants were 868 freshmen who entered as pre-engineering students over the course of 7 years. Variables used were high school total grade index, high school mathematics grade index, high school science grade index, high school humanities grade index, and first quarter college grade point average. Analyses indicated that first quarter college grade point average was a significant indicator in the prediction of success in higher education. In addition, high school grade indices also predict at a high rate. (Contains 30 references.) (SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC