Date of Award
1989
Type
Thesis
Major
Specialist in Education
Degree Type
Special Degree in Education in Secondary Mathematics
Department
Teacher Education
First Advisor
Dr. Carolyn M. Cartledge
Second Advisor
Dr. Mary M. Lindquist
Third Advisor
Dr. Albert R. VanCleave Jr.
Abstract
Thirty-seven current and former Engineering Technology students at a postsecondary vocational education institution were used as subjects for a comparison of the high school grade point average and the SAT mathematics score as predictors of success in the three-quarter mathematics sequence during the first year of the two-year program: The Pearson Product-Moment Correlation was used to compute two correlation coefficients; one between the high school GPA and the mathematics sequence average, and the other between the SAT mathematics score and the mathematics sequence average. These correlation coefficients were then compared, using a z calculation, to determine that the difference between the correlation coefficients was not statistically significant. This result supported the hypothesis, that there ls no significant difference between the use of the high school GPA and the· SAT mathematics score to predict success in the mathematics sequence of the Engineering Technology program.
Recommended Citation
Hicks, Steve A., "Differences Between the High School Grade Point Average and the SAT Mathematics Score in Predicting Success in the Three-Quarter Mathematics Sequence at a Post-secondary Vocational Education Institution" (1989). Theses and Dissertations. 662.
https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/662
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