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Relations of high school to university

Overview

Influence: Relations of high school to university
Domain: Student
Sub-Domain: Prior knowledge and background
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
Influence Definition: The degree to which high school achievement is an optimal predictor of university performance. Most often the prediction is from some form of high school GPA to performance at the end of first year university.

Evidence

Number of meta-analyses: 7
Number of studies: 2,155
Number of students: 143,989
Number of effects: 7,101
Weighted mean effect size: 0.54
Robustness index: 5

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	First Author's Country	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Psychological Bulletin	Kuncel, Hezlett & Ones	USA	A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of the Predictive Validity of the Graduate Record Examinations: Implications for Graduate Student Selection and Performance	2001	High school grades to university grades	1,753	82,659	6,589	0.52
Educational and Psychological Measurement	Goldberg & Allinger	USA	Assessing the validity of the GRE For Students in Psychology: A Validity Generalization Approach	1992	High school grades to university grades	27	4,423	97	0.21
Applied Psychology	Schuler, Funke, & Baron-Boldt	Germany	Predictive validity of school grades: A meta-analysis.	1990	High school grades to university grades	63	29,422	63	1.02
Zeitschrift Fur Padagogische Psychologie	Trapmann, Hell, Weigand, & Schuler	Germany	Die Validität von Schulnoten zur Vorhersage des Studienerfolgs-eine Metaanalyse (The validity of school-grades for academic achievement: a meta-analysis)	2007	High school grades to university grades	83	0	83	0.90
Psychological Bulletin	Richardson, Abraham & Bond	UK	Psychological Correlates of University Students' Academic Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	2012	Traditional high school and GPA	135	0	135	0.32
Journal of Educational Psychology	Peers & Johnston	UK	Influence of learning context on the relationship between A-level attainment and final degree performance: a meta-analytic review.	1994	A levels to university grades	20	23,589	60	0.57
Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice	Zhang & Kuncel	USA	Moving Beyond the Brag Sheet: A Meta-Analysis of Biodata Measures Predicting Student Outcomes	2020	Biodata to university grades	74	3,896	74	0.85
TOTAL/AVERAGE						2,155	143,989	7,101	0.63

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