Previous research notes the importance of understanding racial/ethnic differential prediction of college grades across multiple institutions. Institutional variation in selection indices is especially important given some states' laws governing public institutions' admissions decisions. This paper employed multilevel moderated multiple regression…

Studied the use of grade point average as a missing data technique for unavailable grades in school grade records. Results of 2 studies, 1 involving 2,080 Dutch college students, and the other involving 446 Dutch college freshmen, show that alternative missing grade methods produced better and more consistent predictions than other missing data…

The effect of grade inflation on the reliability of undergraduate grade point averages at a university was examined. It was shown that there has been some decline in reliability, but this is ameliorated by the use of plus and minus attachments to grades. (JKS)

Undergraduate students estimated the grade-point average of a fictitious student in eight major fields. This study strongly indicated that students perceived differential grading standards, although not as accurately as had been hypothesized. Students correctly perceived that the natural sciences were graded more stringently than the humanities…

Data from a postdictive study of the tests of the Graduate Record Examination and the eight semesters of undergraduate grade averages, each semester's average being computed independently of the rest, are presented. (Editor)

Purpose of this investigation was to determine whether the inclusion of quadratic and/or interaction terms in a regression model would improve the prediction of student nurses' grade point averages. (Authors)

No significant relationships were found between creativity and grade point average. (AG)

Errors in self-reports of three academic performance measures are analyzed. Empirical errors are shown to depart radically from both no-error and random-error assumptions. Self-reports by females depart farther from the no-error and random-error models for all three performance measures. (Author/BW)

High School GPA and Scholastic Aptitude Test V and M scales were used to predict college GPA for Mexican-American and Anglo-American college students. Results indicated that regression systems were essentially parallel for both groups, with virtually no difference in intercepts, though prediction of Anglo GPA appeared slightly more accurate.…

Results indicate that a common prediction system is not practical and that a separate prediction system should be developed for each subgroup. (AG)

The purposes of this study were (a) to analyze the significant variables influencing committee decisions to readmit flunked-out students and, (b) to compare these with variables predicting grade point average after readmission. (Author/AG)

This application study investigates whether the multiple-choice to composite linking functions that determine Advanced Placement Program exam grades remain invariant over subgroups defined by region. Three years of test data from an AP exam are used to study invariance across regions. The study focuses on two questions: (a) How invariant are grade…