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Hegarty, Mary; Montello, Daniel R.; Richardson, Anthony E.; Ishikawa, Toru; Lovelace, Kristin – Intelligence, 2006
Most psychometric tests of spatial ability are paper-and-pencil tasks at the ''figural'' scale of space, in that they involve inspecting, imagining or mentally transforming small shapes or manipulable objects. Environmental spatial tasks, such as wayfinding or learning the layout of a building or city, are carried out in larger spaces that…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Individual Differences, Aptitude Tests, Short Term Memory
Freeman, Amy Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A primary gateway to a career in engineering is the attainment of the bachelor of science degree in engineering. In contrast, a common barrier to becoming an engineer is failure to attain the degree. Those variables that are related to college graduation are often in place prior to college admission. The purpose of this study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Engineering, Technical Occupations, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Attainment
Sternberg, Robert J. – Intelligence, 2006
This article describes the formulation and execution of the Rainbow Project, Phase I, funded by the College Board. Past data suggest that the SAT is a good predictor of performance in college. But in terms of the amount of variance explained by the SAT, there is room for improvement, as there would be for virtually any single test battery. Phase I…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Predictive Validity, Intelligence, Construct Validity
Grove, Wayne A.; Wasserman, Tim; Grodner, Andrew – Journal of Economic Education, 2006
Although academic ability is the most important explanatory variable in studies of student learning, researchers control for it with a wide array and combinations of proxies. The authors investigated how the proxy choice affects estimates of undergraduate student learning by testing over 150 specifications of a single model, each including a…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Undergraduate Students
Amir, Tami; Gati, Itamar – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2006
The present research investigated the relations among the measured and the expressed career decision-making difficulties in a sample of 299 young adults who intended to apply to college or university. As hypothesised, the correlations between career decision-making difficulties, as measured by the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Self Efficacy, Aptitude Tests, Academic Aptitude
Mercer, Annette – Education Research and Perspectives, 2009
Medicine is a profession with a long history of research and high standards of methodological rigour and evidence-based decision making. These standards are being transferred into medical education. Universities are starting to collect high-quality data on their admissions systems. This has not been a short-term proposition. Medical courses are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Admission Criteria, Case Studies
Choroszy, Melisa N.; Muehlberg, Jessica – College and University, 2006
The newly revamped Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) was administered for the first time in March 2005. Administrators, faculty, and staff in colleges and universities throughout the country were asking the same questions as students: "What was this new score of 2400 and what would it mean for them in terms of admissions, scholarships, and…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Aptitude Tests, College Admission, Land Grant Universities
Sternberg, Robert J. – Perspectives in Education, 2007
How can one create a system for university admission that is equitable, valid, and representative of the broad range of abilities that students can bring to university settings? Conventional tests of abilities and achievements are narrow and do not measure the full range of abilities relevant to university and life success. In this article I…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Student Diversity
Liu, Jinghua; Cahn, Miriam F.; Dorans, Neil J. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2006
The College Board's SAT[R] data are used to illustrate how the score equity assessment (SEA) can help inform the program about equatability. SEA is used to examine whether the content change(s) to the revised new SAT result in differential linking functions across gender groups. Results of population sensitivity analyses are reported on the…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Comparative Analysis, Gender Differences, Scores
Handwerk, Phil – ETS Research Report Series, 2007
Online high schools are growing significantly in number, popularity, and function. However, little empirical data has been published about the effectiveness of these institutions. This research examined the frequency of group work and extended essay writing among online Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) students, and how these tasks may have…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Advanced Placement, Computer Assisted Testing, Models
Mattson, Christopher Erik – Journal of College Admission, 2007
This study examined pre-college variables from an admission-office perspective and the ability of these variables to predict college grade point average (GPA) for students specially admitted into an academic support program for at-risk students. The research was conducted at a private, highly-selective, research university in the southwest United…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Grade Point Average, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement
Zhang, Yanwei; Nandakumar, Ratna – Online Submission, 2006
Computer Adaptive Sequential Testing (CAST) is a test delivery model that combines features of the traditional conventional paper-and-pencil testing and item-based computerized adaptive testing (CAT). The basic structure of CAST is a panel composed of multiple testlets adaptively administered to examinees at different stages. Current applications…
Descriptors: Item Banks, Item Response Theory, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
Chung, Gregory K. W. K.; Dionne, Gary B.; Kaiser, William J. – Online Submission, 2006
Our research question was whether we could develop a feasible technique, using Bayesian networks, to diagnose gaps in student knowledge. Thirty-four college-age participants completed tasks designed to measure conceptual knowledge, procedural knowledge, and problem-solving skills related to circuit analysis. A Bayesian network was used to model…
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Feasibility Studies, Bayesian Statistics, Prediction
Pascarella, Ernest T.; Cruce, Ty; Umbach, Paul D.; Wolniak, Gregory C.; Kuh, George D.; Carini, Robert M.; Hayek, John C.; Gonyea, Robert M.; Zhao, Chun-Mei – Journal of Higher Education, 2006
Academic selectivity plays a dominant role in the public's understanding of what constitutes institutional excellence or quality in undergraduate education. In this study, we analyzed two independent data sets to estimate the net effect of three measures of college selectivity on dimensions of documented good practices in undergraduate education.…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Selective Admission, Undergraduate Study, Educational Quality
Harris, Ruby C. – NHSA Dialog, 2007
In the late 1990s, a National Educational Goal was set in the United States that by the year 2000 all children should start school with the skills necessary for learning (Meisels, 1995 ) and assessment measures should be put in place to provide the screenings. Thus, readiness testing became widespread and kindergarten curricula shifted to more…
Descriptors: Motivation, School Readiness, Preschool Children, Kindergarten