Average Rank and Adjusted Rank Are Better Measures of College Student Success than GPA

Autor/in	Wittman, Donald
Titel	Average Rank and Adjusted Rank Are Better Measures of College Student Success than GPA
Quelle	In: Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 41 (2022) 4, S.23-34 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wittman, Donald)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0731-1745
DOI	10.1111/emip.12521
Schlagwörter	College Students; Grade Point Average; Academic Achievement; Predictor Variables; Grading; Class Rank; Measures (Individuals); Low Achievement; College Entrance Examinations; SAT (College Admission Test) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Schulleistung; Prädiktor; Notengebung; Schulnote; Messdaten; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Aufnahmeprüfung
Abstract	I show that there are better measures of student college performance than grade point average (GPA) by undertaking a fine-grained empirical investigation of grading within a large public university. The value of using GPA as a measure of comparative performance is undermined by academically weaker students taking courses where the grading is more generous. In fact, college courses composed of "weaker" performing students (whether measured by their relative performance in other classes, SAT scores, or high school GPA) have "higher" average grades. To partially correct for idiosyncratic grading across classes, alternative measures, student class rank and the student's average class rank, are introduced. In comparison to a student's lower-division grade, the student's lower-division "rank" is a better predictor of the student's grade in the upper-division course. Course rank and course grade are adjusted to account for different levels of academic competitiveness across courses (more precisely, student fixed-effects are derived). SAT scores and high school GPA are then used to predict college performance. Higher explained variation (R[superscript 2]) is obtained when the dependent variable is average class rank rather than GPA. Still higher explained variation occurs when the dependent variable is adjusted rank. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01