Abstract

ROJAS TORRES, Luis. Predictive validity of admission average components of university of costa rica using gender and type of school as control variables. Rev. Actual. Investig. Educ [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.1, pp.45-69. ISSN 1409-4703.

It was studied in the following paper the relation of the admission average components (secondary average grade and Academic Aptitude Test) to the academic performance of the first year students at University of Costa Rica in the first semester of studies, by controlling the possible influences, because of genre of the student and the public or private condition of provenance school. This was performed by using regression models applied to 4,658 first year students of the cohort from 2008. It was obtained from the three proposed models that 18,6 % of the variability of the college academic achievement is due to of the admission average components, genre and provenance school, also, women obtain a higher academic performance than men and the students from private secondary school show a better performance than those students from public schools. Furthermore, it was evidenced that analogies from Entrance Examination of University of Costa Rica are not a component that could be significant in the explanation of the academic performance for the first semester, on the contrary, those who resulted as a significant component were the average grade and the other parts of the Test.

Keywords : academic achievement; student selection; standardized test; predictive validity; admission system; University of Costa Rica.

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