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Direct linkBobkowski, Piotr S.; Cavanah, Sarah B. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2019
Using data from the nationally representative Education Longitudinal Study of 2002, this study examined how journalism participation in high school relates to subsequent academic outcomes. The analysis statistically controlled for a host of correlates of academic achievement, isolating the associations between journalism participation and…
Descriptors: Journalism Education, Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, High School Students
Download full textMatos-Díaz, Horacio; García, Dwight – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
Over concerns about private school students' advantages in standardized tests, beginning in 1995-96 the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) implemented a new admissions formula that reduced the weight they previously had in the General Admissions Index (GAI), on which its admissions decisions are based. This study seeks to determine the possible…
Descriptors: College Admission, Private Schools, Gender Differences, Equal Education
Gayles, Jonathan – Educational Research Quarterly, 2012
First-year grade point average (FYGPA) is an oft-referenced outcome criterion for assessments of the predictive validity of a variety of admissions mechanisms. Unfortunately, few studies examine the relationship between FYGPA and long-term outcomes such as graduating grade point average and six-year graduation. Influenced by Wilson's (1980)…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Race, Racial Differences, Predictive Validity
Stock, Wendy A.; Finegan, T. Aldrich; Siegfried, John J. – Economics of Education Review, 2009
We investigate graduate school outcomes for students who entered economics Ph.D. programs in Fall 2002. Students in Top-15 ranked programs and those with higher verbal and quantitative GRE scores are less likely to have dropped out, but no more likely to have graduated. Those with undergraduate degrees from Top-60 U.S. liberal arts colleges and…
Descriptors: Probability, Liberal Arts, Graduate Study, Doctoral Degrees
