Significance of the Study: Predictive Power of High School GPA and Admission Test Scores on College Academic Performance

The relevant independent variable in his study is hours worked by a student; the relevant dependent variables in his study are credits completed per semester and student GPA. Darolia’s study also considers disparate effects on GPA and credit completion based on student characteristics (e.g., gender, full or part-time status).

Motivation is important because it allows you to work towards and complete your goals. GPA allows you to see, on average, how well a student has performed in all classes they have taken. It is likely there is a relationship between motivation and GPA. If a student is highly motivated, will their GPA rise? Based upon previous research, it is hypothesized that students who are highly motivated will have a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Seventeen university students, 9 male and 8 female participated in the survey. The survey included 9 questions that measured motivation, measured on a Likert scale from 1-5. [Results].

Research Question #2: “What relationship exists between the grade point average earned in dual credit courses and college persistence?” An Anova test was used to compare the GPA earned and college persistence. Table 3 represents the results which portrays no difference in the groups, (F [1,154] = 643.02, p > .01) where the p value is 7.57. This means that the groups are not statistically different and there is no relationship between the GPA earned and college persistence.

1. For some students attending college, high school grades may be an issue for admittance

Many high school students, including soon-to-be high school graduates, underestimate how crucial it is to be educated and informed on this subject matter. Unfortunately, teenagers today don’t take what teachers, counselors, and parents say seriously in regards to their education. Not knowing that this will define their placement in college, therefore, affecting their future. Your Grade-Point-Average (GPA) will reflect how well you performed academically throughout high school. The higher your GPA, the better chance you have to receive scholarships and government funding that will help pay your tuition and decrease your debt in the future. That is why we must teach on how making an effort and working on your grades is very important. This will define who you become in the future, what college you are eligible to attend, how much debt you will incur,

Colleges can consider high school GPA as the alternative for test scores. Almost all of the schools during admission completely overlook high school GPA. William C. Hiss, a principal investigator of Defining promise, declares “High school grades matter, and they matter a lot” (Maitre, par.2). It is not fair for many students like Ms. Casimir, a sophomore attending Wake Forest University, who scored 1580 in SAT. This was “an embarrassment” as she graduated high school “with a 4.0” (Simon, par.10). Her dreams to go to “Cornell” and “Davidson” was shattered but yet she was admitted by the “Wake Forest University which gave her full ride without seeing her SAT score and she has 3.2 GPA now” (Simon, par.10). It’s not a miracle as diligence and

Some students are able to show their true talent and intelligence just through their high school transcripts. These students that have worked hard: achieved their 4.0 GPA, graduated with honors, and are on their way to a college of their choosing. I myself, have achieved a less than stellar GPA. Always ending the semester with a B or C has put me into a predicament when applying to colleges; not knowing if you’re going to get in or not makes for a mess of anxiety. Myself having an average GPA but being able to score in the 77th percentile on the SAT shows that I have the ability to do more than what my report card says about my intellectual ability. Knowing that my GPA is still very important when applying to colleges I have redone classes

-- Academic factors, such as class rank, extracurricular activities and secondary school records, are very important.

As a senior in high school, you may remember anxiously awaiting a college acceptance letter, the decision of which often relies greatly on your ACT or SAT score. However, for many students, this may mean being denied from their school of choice. My purpose today is to explain why the ACT and SAT may not be the best indicators of college success and the alternate measures that can be taken.

The focus of this article is to see if early grade retention, based on low achieving academic or social skills, influences the outcome of completing high school. Due to the recent implementation of educational accountability, new policies state elementary school students have to reach specific performance outcomes in order to avoid retention. The authors found that early grade retention, likely, does not impact the student’s completion of high school.

The article also discusses how the country’s highest achievers are increasing their performance in reading while the country’s lowest achievers are preforming at record lows. A survey produced by US News showed that only thirty-seven percent of high school seniors are scoring proficient or higher in reading. However, just twenty-five percent of the students score high enough in math. The survey also showed that the students in the lower performing percentile dropped four points in math and six points in reading when compared to the previous year. This survey and this article as a whole stand to prove that most high school students are becoming lesser prepared as the years’ tack on. As the survey supported, high school seniors are not performing proficiently enough to keep up with college coursework. If high school seniors are not performing proficiently enough, then they will not be able to make the transition from high school to college. Over time, this could possibly eliminate the high school students who do not perform efficiently from furthering their education at all. This can all be related to the high schools not preparing students for college. This is a very good argument and article because it proves that most high school seniors are not capable of succeeding in college because they are not adequately

Yemen a great desert in the Arabic peninsula , located south to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and left to Oman , has also a shore : mainly on the Red Sea and on the Gulf of Aden. Yemen has some natural resources (oil) but unfortunately it is considered as the poorest Arabic country. Yemen is now The Republic of Yemen because of the reunification made on 22nd May 1990. Before that day Yemen was divided into two separate countries , the first known as the North Yemen Republic which was controlled by tribes so far the worst tribal system in the world , on the other side , the Yemen of the South known as the world’s worst communist regime. But in 1994 , a civil war turned the south and the north against each other. We are going to study this

When the researcher crossed GPA and living on campus versus living on campus in Table 1, it was found that the GPA range of 1.6 to 2.0 and 2.6 to 3.0 both had equal amounts of participants under each category, N=1 and N=4 respectively. The population was more dense for the participants who lived on campus with a GPA level of 3.1 to 3.5 and 3.6 to 4.0.

For the purpose of this report, transcript data from ELS:2002 was used to provide nationally representative information about the level of academic preparation that the high school graduating class of 2003-04 had when leaving high school. This data was collected by a study that was conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

The extent of student’s learning in academics may be determined by the grades a student earns for a period of learning has been done. It is believed that a grade is a primary indicator of such learning. If a learner earns high grades it is concluded that they may also have learned a lot while low grades indicate lesser learning. However, many experiences and studies found out that there are also several factors that would account for the grades. No single factor can be definitely pointed out as predicting grades. It has been an interplay of so many factors – gender, daily allowance, social status, time and interest. In fact, almost all of existing environmental and personal factors are a variable of academic