the present study investigated the effect of iranian university entrance examinations and the high school grade point average (hsgpa) on agriculture students' achievement. the population included 598 admitted students at the faculties of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran. the specific variables of the study included college grade point average (cgpa) and average of major f...

This study examined the usefulness of applying the Rasch rating scale model (Andrich, 1978) to high school grade data. ACT Assessment test scores (English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science) were used as " common items " to adjust for different grading standards in individual high school courses both within and across schools. This scaling approach yielded an ACT Assessment-adjusted high school...

Objectives To examine the predictive validity of pre-admission variables on students' performance in a medical school in Saudi Arabia. Methods In this retrospective study, we collected admission and college performance data for 737 students in preclinical and clinical years. Data included high school scores and other standardized test scores, such as those of the National Achievement Test and...

Introduction: Obesity rates have risen rapidly in both industrialised and developing countries, across all age groups genders. The researchers wanted to see if there was a link between body mass index (BMI) lifestyle academic performance among College of Medicine students at Majmaah University Saudi Arabia. Materials Methods: Male female studying college medicine who were registered for the yea...

This thesis uses a unique dataset of five class-years to determine the factors that affect the academic experience of students at Connecticut College, particularly their cumulative grade point averages (CGPA) and persistence into sophomore year. Chapter I examines how changes in high school inputs affect students’ performance at Connecticut College. This chapter finds that high school inputs (v...

Introduction. Success in the licensure examination is the only legal prerequisite to practice as a nurse in Ghana. However, a large percentage of nursing students who sit fail this examination for the first time. This study sought to unravel whether prior education, sociodemographic characteristics, and nursing Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) could predict performance in the licensure exa...

One major problem faced by Level Coordinators at the University of Jos is the computation of their students' Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) in senate format at the end of each session. To many a lecturer, it is laborious, time wasting and a frustrating exercise. This paper proposes a python based algorithm for computing each students CGPA for an entire level in a fast and less tasking ma...