A Method for Assessing the Impact of Individual Course Marks on Overall Freshman Student Performance. AIR 1991 Annual Forum Paper [microform] / Ann Hollings
- Bib ID:
- 5534898
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- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Hollings, Ann
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1991
- 27 p.
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Academic records of first year students enrolled in Introductory Chemistry at the University of Guelph, Canada, were used to develop a method to examine the effects of individual courses on freshman academic performance. At the center of the technique is a new test statistic useful in creating individual course profiles. Because grade point averages for describing academic performance can be misleading, Introductory Chemistry was selected as a test case because its reputation as a difficult course might readily produce effects on grade averages. The study used data from 11 years (1980-1990) of grade records for full-time first year students (N=10,184). Initial analysis demonstrated that having Introductory Chemistry in a timetable will on average decrease a student's average by .6 to 1.4 percent. However, that was found to be a relatively useless fact. Consequently a new formula was developed for determining how much the chemistry grade deviated from the average of the student's other grades. The resulting simple mathematical formula produced a statistic which was found to describe the effects of individual course grades on overall student performance while being intuitively sensible and easy to use. The paper includes 3 tables, 3 figures and 12 references. (JB)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research (31st, San Francisco, CA, May 26-29, 1991).
- Educational level discussed: Higher Education.
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