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Direct linkZhang, Charlene; Kuncel, Nathan R. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
Measures of biographical data, or biodata, provide indicators of one's life history and past experiences. Biodata information is often available in various forms during processes of academic admissions to higher education. Such information can be used, in combination with other factors, to predict students' future academic and extra-curricular…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Biographical Inventories, Scores, Predictor Variables
Kostal, Jack W.; Sackett, Paul R.; Kuncel, Nathan R.; Walmsley, Philip T.; Stemig, Melissa S. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2017
Previous research has established that SAT scores and high school grade point average (HSGPA) differ in their predictive power and in the size of mean differences across racial/ethnic groups. However, the SAT is scaled nationally across all test takers while HSGPA is scaled locally within a school. In this study, the researchers propose that this…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Scaling, Grade Point Average, Differences
Higdem, Jana L.; Kostal, Jack W.; Kuncel, Nathan R.; Sackett, Paul R.; Shen, Winny; Beatty, Adam S.; Kiger, Thomas B. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2016
Recent research has shown that admissions tests retain the vast majority of their predictive power after controlling for socioeconomic status (SES), and that SES provides only a slight increment over SAT and high school grades (high school grade point average [HSGPA]) in predicting academic performance. To address the possibility that these…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Gender Differences, Racial Differences, Grade Point Average
