Admissions Tests and the Probability of Academic Success in Higher Education. A Study in a Mexican State Public University

Autor: Ragueb Chain Revuelta, Nicandro Cruz Ramírez, Manuel Martínez Morales, Nancy Jácome Ávila
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2003)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1607-4041
Popis: The growing demand for admission to institutions of higher education, combined with the decreasing availability of the academic supply, has increased the need to apply selection criteria, among which are entrance examinations. This work shows an approximation of the relationship between students’ results in the areas of knowledge explored by the National Examination for Admission to Higher Education (EXANI II), and their scholastic trajectory. Analyzed was information available for the 1998 EXANI II results, and the academic path of 6,937 freshman students at The University of Veracruz (UV). For the analysis, conditional independence tests, as well as simple correlation tools were used. Without exhausting all the possibilities, analysis of the data suggests the degree of association between the examination scores and university performance.
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