Columbus State University
Differences Between the High School Grade Point Average and the SAT Mathematics Score in Predicting Success in the Three-Quarter Mathematics Sequence at a Post-secondary Vocational Education Institution
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>Thirty-seven current and former Engineering Technology students at a postsecondary vocational education institution were used as subjects for a comparison of the high school grade point average and the SAT mathematics score as predictors of success in the three-quarter mathematics sequence during the first year of the two-year program: The Pearson Product-Moment Correlation was used to compute two correlation coefficients; one between the high school GPA and the mathematics sequence average, and the other between the SAT mathematics score and the mathematics sequence average. These correlation coefficients were then compared, using a z calculation, to determine that the difference between the correlation coefficients was not statistically significant. This result supported the hypothesis, that there ls no significant difference between the use of the high school GPA and the· SAT mathematics score to predict success in the mathematics sequence of the Engineering Technology program.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Specialist in Education
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Teacher Education
- Year
- 1989
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Hicks, Steve A.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Dr. Carolyn M. Cartledge
- Dr. Mary M. Lindquist
- Dr. Albert R. VanCleave Jr.
Subjects
dc:subject × 9Rights
- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/662
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:csuepress.columbusstate.edu:theses_dissertations-1658