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Lunneborg, Clifford E.; Lunneborg, Patricia W. – J Educ Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, College Students, Predictive Validity
Download full textLunneborg, Clifford E.; Lunneborg, Patricia W. – 1969
The hypothesis that tests of precollege aptitude/achievement are poor predictors of later college grades because of uneven changes in aptitude development over these years was investigated. A battery of 11 tests administered before college entrance was readministered to 59 female and 67 male college seniors. Correlations obtained from high school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Higher Education
PDF pending restorationLunneborg, Clifford E. – 1974
Available empirical data relating to the effects of changes in freshmen admissions at the university are summarized. Included are the data concerning the construction of an admissions index based on core high school GPA and verbal and quantitative test scores. Findings are that the arbitrary weighting of one-third test scores to two-thirds HS…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, College Admission
Lunneborg, Clifford E. – 1975
As part of a long term project relating individual differences in performance on paper and pencil tests of intellectual aptitude and achievement to differences observed in laboratory studies of cognition, data have been collected comparing test scores with simple choice reaction times. The three studies summarized here suggest that the…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
Lunneborg, Clifford E. – 1971
A Bayesian prediction strategy is outlined in which antecedent measures are divided into two subgroups. One subgroup is used to discriminate among criterion groups, the second to provide normal linear predictions for each group. Individualized regression constants are subsequently obtained by computing probabilities of group membership from the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Bayesian Statistics
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The role of testing in determining college admissions and the impact of that testing on high school students are commanding increasing attention. There is emerging evidence that admissions decisions made solely on the basis of high school record can serve the college as well or better than decisions based, at least in part, on scores obtained on…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Admission Criteria, College Admission, Student Evaluation
Lunneborg, Clifford E.; Lunneborg, Patricia W. – 1975
Discriminant function analyses utilizing Washington Pre-College (WPC) aptitude/achievement variables and Vocational Interest Inventory scores were performed to predict graduating major for June 1975 University of Washington graduates in 11 majors. Using both types of pre-college measures classified more graduates correctly than utilizing the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, College Graduates
Lunneborg, Clifford E. – 1976
A new technique has been developed for admitting new freshman students at the University of Washington. Previously, an Admissions Index (AI) was used, in which the high school grade point average (HSGPA) was assigned twice the weight of the composite verbal and quantitative scores from the Washington Pre-College Test Battery (WPC). To offset the…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, College Admission, College Bound Students
