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AN ANALYSIS OF FLUNKED‐OUT AND READMITTED STUDENTS 1
Author(s) -
SCHUSTER D. H.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
journal of educational measurement
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.917
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-3984
pISSN - 0022-0655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3984.1971.tb00921.x
Subject(s) - quarter (canadian coin) , regression analysis , statistics , set (abstract data type) , psychology , linear regression , point (geometry) , test (biology) , quality (philosophy) , mathematics , mathematics education , computer science , paleontology , philosophy , geometry , archaeology , epistemology , biology , history , programming language
This study utilized multiple regression analysis to develop equations to predict a committee's decision on whether to readmit flunked‐out college students and to develop a second equation to predict grade point average the first quarter after readmitting such students. Data for similar students for a second academic year provided a hold‐out group to cross‐validate the regression equations. The committee's decision to readmit students could be predicted fairly well (cross‐validity = .61) from the variables of setting realistic goals, math test score, number of quality points short of a passing average, and a self‐analysis of failure. The attempt to predict the grade point average the first quarter after readmission was much less successful (cross‐validity = .32). A different set of student factors seemed to be influential in accounting for a committee's decision to readmit a student and for the student's subsequent grade performance if admitted