Previous studies, such as those by Kornell and Bjork (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14:219-224, 2007) and Karpicke, Butler, and Roediger (Memory, 17:471-479, 2009), have surveyed college students' use of various study strategies, including self-testing and rereading. These studies have documented that some students do use self-testing (but largely for monitoring memory) and rereading, but the ...

BACKGROUND A two-step selection procedure, consisting of a non-academic and an academic step, was recently shown to select students with a 2.6 times lower risk of early dropout and a higher clerkship Grade Point Average (GPA) than lottery-admitted controls. AIM To determine the relative contribution of the non-academic and academic steps to differences found in student performance. METHOD L...

Assessment of undergraduate research (UR) programs using participant surveys has produced a wealth of information about design, implementation, and perceived benefits of UR programs. However, measurement of student participation university wide, and the potential contribution of research experience to student success, also require the study of extrinsic measures. In this essay, institutional da...


 This study aims at testing hypotheses formulated from theoretical studies. The stated that the thesis supervisor, gender, and motivation affected length of writing process Grade Point Average (henceforth: GPA), as well impacting period. It is a quantitative research using mediation effect analysis (path methods). In this study, there was no sampling all populations were taken respondents...

PURPOSE Determine whether the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Subject Examination performance from six clerkships correlated with United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Steps 1 and 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) Examination scores. Also, examine correlations between medical students' preclinical and clinical year mean cumulative grade point average (GPA), subject exam, and US...

This study describes criteria used by graduate nurse anesthesia educational programs (GNAEPs) in selecting students for admission. The investigators prepared and distributed a 15-item questionnaire to 71 GNAEPs as listed by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Eduational Programs for December 1992. Thirty-eight of 71 (54%) of GNAEPs participated in this study. Upon examination of st...

Please cite this article in press as: Junco, R. Too m performance. Computers in Human Behavior (20 Because of the social media platform’s widespread adoption by college students, there is a great deal of interest in how Facebook use is related to academic performance. A small number of prior studies have examined the relationship between Facebook use and college grade point average (GPA); howev...

This paper uses administrative data from the University of Texas-Austin to examine whether the number of same high school classmates at college entry influences college achievement, measured by grade point average (GPA) and persistence. For each freshman cohort from 1993 through 2003 we calculate the number and ethnic makeup of college freshmen from each Texas high school. Empirical specificati...

<span lang="EN-US">This study exploited random roommate assignments in a small Chinese college to estimate the causal effects of roommates’ scores on national College Entrance Test (CET) first-year students’ Grade Point Average (GPA). Analyzing data an entire cohort enrolled students, we found that level aggregation, for both peer-ability measure and one’s own academic-outcome measure, ma...