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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"College grade point average"”.
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An Investigation of the Inter-Relationships Among Certain Personality Tests and Ratings and Their Relationship to Academic Success in a Teacher’s College
… between scores on a personality inventory and college grade point average, and (3) what relationship exists between dormitory supervisor ratings and college grade point average.
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The Relationship of Collegiate Athletic and Recreational Sports Involvement to Student Success and Persistence
… often scrutinize extracurricular involvement in college as an unnecessary financial strain on dwindling university budgets. Student Affairs practitioners must constantly justify programs as adequate additions to the in-class learning students receive on a daily basis. The experiential education …
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Predicting performance on the Physical Therapist Assistant licensure examination
… between student success as defined by grades in earned in basic sciences of anatomy and physiology as well as overall college grade point average with the score on the National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE) for Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) students. This pilot study examined …
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The relationship between traditional student success variables with retention of the Tennessee Lottery Scholarship Program
… after the first 24 attempted semester hour checkpoint? Data were collected about lottery scholarship recipients enrolled at a moderately selective higher education institution in the southeastern region of the United States. A Pearson chi-square analysis was administered to examine RQ1. The …
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Design Readiness: An Exploratory Model of Object-Oriented Design Performance
… measures of interest in this study included college grade point average, prior programming experience, cognitive abilities (spatial orientation, visualization, logical reasoning, flexibility, perceptual style), and design readiness. In addition, OOD performance was measured using two …
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Relationships Among Predictors of Collegiate Performance, Introduction to College Life Courses, and Measures of Academic Success
… equation designed to predict cumulative college grade point average. The analyses included both traditional and non-traditional predictor variables. These variables included ACT composite scores, ACT math scores, ACT reading scores, high school GPA, high school percentile rank, …
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The relationship between background variables and the academic performance of college frehmen
… of academic success during the freshmen year of college in order to aid high school counselors and college admissions personnel with students pursuing postsecondary education. Subjects were 87 randomly sampled mid-western freshmen students who were administered the Interpersonal Problem Solving …
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An exploration of selected noncognitive variables as predictors of success in basic nursing education programs
… the dependent variable, was the cumulative college grade-point average. Multiple regression analyses revealed that three of the 10 independent variables (self-esteem, negative life change events, and social support loss) contributed 7% to the prediction of success in basic nursing education …
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College Students with Learning Disabilities in Mathematics : Are They Struggling to Achieve in the Postsecondary Education Setting
… academic achievement scores for a group of 70 college students with diagnosed learning disabilities in mathematics attending a south-central, public, four-year university between 2000 and 2004. Using an ex post facto or retrospective study design for Phase I of the study, students with learning …
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An Exploratory Study of the Relationship among Perceived Personal and Social Competence, Health Risk Behaviors, and Academic Achievement of Selected Undergraduate Students
… judgment skills; 11 health risk behaviors, and college grade point average (GPA). Descriptive statistics, correlations, and multiple regression analyses were calculated to determine relationships among these variables. Thirteen statistically significant correlations were found among personal and …
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A Comparative Study of High School Academic Paths, Grade Point Averages, and ACT Composite Scores as Predictors of Success at Walters State Community College.
… number of students attempting to enter college after high school, the competitive nature of college admissions continues to grow. Colleges and universities are attempting to find the appropriate means to adequately predict collegiate success. Common methods of this prediction have come …
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Motivational Factors Underlying College Students' Decisions to Resume Their Educational Pursuits in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
College student persistence has been the central focus of higher education for decades. Specifically, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have directed their attention to increasing the retention and graduation rates of African American college students. Postsecondary institutions …
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A study of retention among scholarship football players in the Atlantic Coast Conference
… a retention model that predicted graduation and college grade point averages for scholarship football players. Several nontraditional factors, such as each player’s career maturity, their use of academic support services, and institutional characteristics were included in the model. Astin’s …
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Meta-Analysis of the Predictive Validity of Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and American College Testing (ACT) Scores for College GPA
<p>The college admission systems of the United States require the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and American College Testing (ACT) examinations. Although, some resources suggest that SAT and ACT scores give some meaningful information about academic success, others disagree. The objective of this …
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Effectiveness of Introduction to College GE-100
… excitement to teach the class, Introduction to College to new students who are beginning college, was greatly accepted with much reservation. Numerous memories reflected back to that special period when the writer was faced with those daunting decisions of where to attend college. Those memories …