Background: The students’ ability to withstand the effect of stress is significantly determined by their coping ability. Their inability cope effectively with may lead low academic performance. This study aimed investigate pressure and style as predictors performance nursing undergraduates. Methods: adopted a cross-sectional descriptive research design. target population was undergraduates at F...

Prior studies have associated the academic performance of accounting students to learning facilities and structure, methods entry requirements. Although it is expected that these qualifications would an impact on students’ performance, shown contradictory findings. This study was, therefore, conducted investigate relationship between university requirements students. Data were collected from of...

Abstract: In good learning achievement, motivation is needed to encourage students study. Therefore, and achievement are interrelated inseparable. One of the benchmarks in academic Grade Point Average (GPA). Results previous study showed that Cumulative GPA (CGPA) developing countries still has potential be further improved. This aimed find out role on CGPA medical faculty students. was a liter...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of admissions criteria at King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to predict students' early academic performance at three health science colleges (medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy). A retrospective cohort study was conducted with data from the records of students enrolled in the three colleges from the 2008-09 to 2010-11 academic yea...

discovering the effective factors in agricultural students’ academic success was the aim of this study. the statistical population consisted of all 194 junior agriculture students at the university of tehran. the study is of a correlation type with the information being gathered through questionnaires as well as through a study of students’ academic files. there was a positive significant corre...

We introduce the concept of differential prediction generalization in the context of college admissions testing. Specifically, we assess the extent to which predicted first-year college grade point average (GPA) based on high-school grade point average (HSGPA) and SAT scores depends on a student’s ethnicity and gender and whether this difference varies across samples. We compared 257,336 female...

The dataset used in estimation and simulation was constructed from several sources. Table A1 provides an overview of the main variables used in the analysis. The sample of individuals comes from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS). The NELS is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of U.S. 8th graders in 1988. Interviews were conducted in 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, and 200...

Veterinary admission committees are asked to create and implement a fair, reliable, and valid system to select the candidates most likely to succeed in veterinary school from a large pool of applicants. Although numerous studies have explored grade point average (GPA) as a predictive value of later academic success, there has been little attention paid to how and where an applicant acquires his...