Sex-specific differential prediction of college admission tests: A meta-analysis.

Autor/inn/en	Fischer, Franziska T.; Schult, Johannes; Hell, Benedikt
Titel	Sex-specific differential prediction of college admission tests: A meta-analysis.
Quelle	In: Journal of educational psychology, 105 (2013) 2, S. 478-488Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0663; 1939-2176
DOI	10.1037/a0031956
Schlagwörter	Metaanalyse; Test; Geschlechtsspezifischer Unterschied; Aufnahmeprüfung; Studienanfänger
Abstract	This is the first meta-analysis that investigates the differential prediction of undergraduate and graduate college admission tests for women and men. Findings on 130 independent samples representing 493,048 students are summarized. The underprediction of women's academic performance (d = 0.14) and the overprediction of men's academic performance (d = -0.16) are generalizable, albeit small. Transferred onto a 4-point grading scale, women earn college grades that are 0.24 points higher than those of men with the same admission test result. Combining admission tests with indicators of previous academic achievements, such as high school grades, reduces the amount of under- and overprediction. Moderator analysis reveals that the underprediction of women's academic performance by admission tests is a problem of the past and present. Predictor differences as well as criterion differences are not associated with over- and underprediction. Rather, undergraduate college admission tests show more underprediction of women's academic performance than graduate admission tests. These results point to differences between undergraduate and graduate students, the latter being more selected. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2014/1