Accuracy of Self-Reported High School Courses and Grades of College-Bound Students.

Autor/inn/en	Sawyer, Richard; und weitere
Titel	Accuracy of Self-Reported High School Courses and Grades of College-Bound Students.
Quelle	(1988), (48 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Records; College Bound Students; College Entrance Examinations; Courses; Grades (Scholastic); High School Students; High Schools; Higher Education; Reliability; ACT Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? College; Colleges; University; Universities; Publication; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Universität; Akademieschrift; Publikation; Aufnahmeprüfung; Kursangebot; Notenspiegel; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Reliabilität; Assessment; Eignungsprüfung; Eignungstest; Hochschulzulassung
Abstract	The High School Course/Grade Information Section (CGIS) of the American College Testing (ACT) Assessment registration folder collects detailed information about the courses students have taken or plan to take in high school, and the grades they have earned in courses they have completed. In this study, data provided by students on the CGIS were compared with corresponding information from their high school transcripts. Indices of concordance between these two sources were computed concerning 30 courses and grades. Data were obtained from 1,074 students who took the ACT Assessment during the 1985-86 school year. Using criteria developed for the study, it was found that for the typical course, about 10% of the students provided no information, about 87% of the students' statements with respect to whether they took the course could be presumed to agree with their transcripts, and about 3% of the students' statements were inconsistent with information on their transcripts. Of the students who provided no information about a course, most, according to school records, had not taken the course. Among students who reported grades for a course, the typical rate of exact agreement between student-reported and transcript grades was 71%. About 97% of the students reported grades that were within one letter grade of the corresponding transcript grades. The CGIS; descriptions of the sample design, selection, weighting, and representativeness; coding forms used in extracting data from high school transcripts; and further comparisons between student-reported and transcript data are appended. Twelve data tables are included. (Author/TJH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC