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de Boer, Timon; Van Rijnsoever, Frank J. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
Prospective graduate students are usually required to have attained an undergraduate degree in a related field and high prior grades to gain admission. There is consensus that some relatedness between the students' undergraduate and graduate programs is required for admission. We propose a new measurement for this relatedness using cosine…
Descriptors: College Admission, Undergraduate Study, Graduate Study, Grades (Scholastic)
The C-Test as Predictor of the Academic Success of International Students
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Daller, Michael; Müller, Amanda; Wang-Taylor, Yixin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
The present article gives an overview of several studies on the predictive validity of the C-test. In the first part of the article, we discuss the construct validity of this test format. Only if the underlying construct of this test is understood, can a justification for high predictive validity be made. In the second part, we discuss several…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Academic Achievement, Foreign Students, Graduate Students