Abstract The Language Aptitude Outside the Classroom (LAOC) study investigates factors that contribute to successful English-learning among newly arrived parent-child immigrants. Two types of are considered: cognitive abilities (aptitude measured with LLAMA tests and working memory) contextual-affective (exposure anxiety). Participants pairs Spanish-speaking immigrants in US. Each pair consists...

The purpose of this study was to explore factors that influence academic achievement for dental students during their first semester of graduate-entry programs. Nine variables were considered, including students' age, gender, undergraduate grade point averages (UGPAs), Dental Education Eligibility Test (DEET) scores, oral exam, and interview selection scores. DEET is a standardized aptitude tes...

Admissions committees and researchers around the globe have used diligence and imagination to develop and implement various screening measures with the ultimate goal of predicting future clinical and professional performance. What works for predicting future job performance in the human resources world and in most of the academic world may not, however, work for the highly competitive world of ...

The United Kingdom's Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) aims to assess candidates' "natural talent" for dentistry. The aim of this study was to determine the validity of the UKCAT for dental school applicant selection. The relationship of the UKCAT with demographic and academic variables was examined, assessing if the likelihood of being offered a place at a UK dental school was predicted by demogr...

The Nurse Licensure Examination is conducted by the Professional Regulatory Commission to screen Nursing graduates who will be licensed practice nursing. study aimed determine academic and non-academic profiles of respondents their possible correlation respondents’ performance. Using total enumeration, sixty-seven pioneering batch under CMO 14 s. 2009 were used as respondents. profile included ...

This research documents systematic gender performance differences (GPD) at a top business school using unique administrative data set and survey of students. The findings show that women’s grades are 11% standard deviation lower in quantitative courses than those men with similar academic aptitude demographics, men’s 23% nonquantitative comparable women. authors discuss test for different reaso...