ERIC Number: EJ773175
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 6
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ISSN: ISSN-0883-2323
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Intertemporal Consistency of Predictors of Student Performance: Evidence from a Business Administration Program
Richter, Ansgar
Journal of Education for Business, v82 n2 p88-93 Nov-Dec 2006
In this article, the author analyzes the intertemporal consistency of high school grades as predictors of the academic performance of business administration students over a 2-year period by using data from a university in Germany. This study shows how students' average high school grades and a range of other factors are regressed on the students' grade performance at regular half-year intervals during their participation in the program. The author applies a bootstrapping procedure to analyze changes in the regression estimators over time and finds that the magnitude of the coefficients on high school grades decreases over the 2-year period, and this decline is statistically significant. Nevertheless, high-school grades remain the most important predictors of the students' performance throughout the period studied here. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervals, Academic Achievement, Business Administration Education, Academic Standards, Grade Point Average, Weighted Scores, Multiple Regression Analysis, Statistical Significance, Robustness (Statistics), High School Students, Research Design
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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