Test scores don’t stack up to GPAs in predicting college success

Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 21:20 in Psychology & Sociology

Students’ high school grade point averages are five times stronger than their ACT scores at predicting college graduation, according to a new study published today in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. The authors of the new study, Elaine M. Allensworth and Kallie Clark, both of the University of Chicago, also found that […]

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