Sentence examples for college performance in from inspiring English sources

I collected every quality piece of research from 1980, related to how high school preparation impacts college performance (in the same subject).

While the literature revealed no significant high school effects on students' college performance in California (Finkelstein & Fong, 2008), further investigation of the high school effects in high course-taking patterns would be necessary to understand the school dynamics that might influence students' selection of STEM-related courses.

The grants are based on universities' and colleges' performance in such areas as graduation rates, numbers of transfers, the diversity of funding sources and efficiency (cooperation with other institutions and having optimum enrollment in classes).

Interest in assessing college performance actually began in the 1980's, around the time politicians and a raft of reports, including the damning "A Nation at Risk," were calling for more accountability in elementary and secondary schools.

As the test-makers themselves officially report, extra time "may overcompensate for some students, permitting them to respond more leisurely and result in overpredictions of college performance," so word in the test-prep community was that college admissions committees would therefore unofficially deduct around seventy points from scores so marked.

For instance, Farmer and colleagues (1995) found that passing an elective high school science course predicts college performance and persistence in STEMM undergraduate majors.

Regression analyses showed the WRT explained an additional 4.5% of variance in college performance over and above traditional cognitive ability measures that take up to five times as long to administer.

The SAT is rather a test of mental dexterity, one element among many in predicting college performance.

Brent Staples accurately states that the SAT may be only "one element among many in predicting college performance" ("The Coming Backlash Against 'the Big Test,' " Editorial Observer, July 10).

In fact, Berri and Simmons found no connection between where a quarterback was taken in the draft — that is, how highly he was rated on the basis of his college performance — and how well he played in the pros.

–Does academic achievement in high school directly correlate to college performance?