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    Marked for Success: Secondary School Performance and University Achievement in Biology

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    Comer, K.
    Brogt, E.
    Sampson, K.A.
    Date
    2011
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8752

    Building on Shulruf, Hattie and Tumen (2008), this work examines the capacity of various National Certificate in Educational Achievement (NCEA)-derived models to predict first-year performance in Biological Sciences at a New Zealand university. We compared three models: (1) the ‘best-80’ indicator as used by several New Zealand universities as a predictor of grade point average (GPA); (2) the ‘best-80’ as a predictor of outcome grade in biology courses and (3) ‘domain status’ in biology and chemistry as a predictor of outcome grade. These models span quantity, quality and competency measures in examining student performance and success at both university-wide and specific disciplinary levels. Results show that the models explain between 25 and 45% of the variance, which may present challenges if one of these models were to become the sole determinant for enrolment and limitation of entry policies, but can be useful in an advisory capacity.

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    NCEA
     
    academic advising
     
    biology
     
    first year performance
     
    academic preparation for university studies
     
    best-80
     
    Field of Research::06 - Biological Sciences
     
    Field of Research::13 - Education::1301 - Education Systems::130103 - Higher Education
     
    Field of Research::13 - Education::1303 - Specialist Studies in Education::130303 - Education Assessment and Evaluation
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