Predicting College Success with High School Grades and Test Scores: Limitations for Minority Students

By J. Hoffman, Katie E Lowitzki. 2005

228 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Education, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/688587a1282fda85245c5e2528b1ed818d3181ea

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Demography

In Education

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Citations in the corpus

When Race and Gender Collide: Social and Cultural Capital’s Influence on the Academic Achievement of African American and Latino Males (2010, background): “Though far from perfect, the link between college students’ grades—one of many proxies used to measure academic integration—and retention is established by other sources (e.g., Baird, 1985; Hoffman & Lowitzki, 2005).”
Academic optimistic bias: Implications for college student performance and well-being (2007, background): “Because of the strong relationship between high-school grades and college achievement ( Hoffman & Lowitzki, 2005; Perry et al., 2001), students’ overall high-school percent was included as a covariate in the MANCOVA to ensure the unique effects of optimistic bias were assessed.”
The Interrelation of First-Year College Students’ Critical Thinking Disposition, Perceived Academic Control, and Academic Achievement (2008, result): “For example, as would be expected, high school academic performance had the strongest correlation with GPA (r = .75), which is a consistent finding in previous research ( Hoffman and Lowitzki 2005 ).”
The Test-Optional Movement at America’s Selective Liberal Arts Colleges (2015, background): “…suggest that test scores—when compared with other measures of academic achievement, such as high school GPA or class rank—are insufficient gauges of motivation, inquisitiveness, and other qualities that contribute to learning and success (Atkinson & Geiser, 2009; Hoffman & Lowitzki, 2005).”
How True Is Grit? Assessing Its Relations to High School and College Students’ Personality Characteristics, Self-Regulation, Engagement, and Achievement (2017, background): “…students care most about, they are predictive of students’ later school and occupational opportunities and success (e.g., Geiser & Santelices, 2007; Hoffman & Lowitzki, 2005; Roth, BeVier, Switzer, & Schippmann, 1996; Roth & Clarke, 1998; Thorsen & Cliffordson, 2012), and they represent students’…”
Factors Influencing College Persistence for First-Time Students. (2015, background): “High school grades and scholastic measures are recognized by many researchers as the most reliable predictors of academic achievement and college persistence (Allen, Robbins, Casillas, & Oh, 2008; Astin, 1971, 1973, 1997; Hoffman & Lowitzi, 2005).”