PREDICTIONS OF FRESHMAN GRADE-POINT AVERAGE FROM THE REVISED AND RECENTERED SAT® I: REASONING TEST

ETS Research Report Series

Volumn 2000, Issue 1, 2000, Pages i-16

  Bridgeman, Brent ^a   McCamley Jenkins, Laura ^b   Ervin, Nancy ^b  

^a Principal Research Scientist at ETS   (United States)

^b at ETS   (United States)

Author keywords

gender and ethnic differences; grade adjustments; over underprediction; recentering; SAT validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85164500141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23308516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2333-8504.2000.tb01824.x     Document Type: Article

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