Subject Tests vs. General Study Skills Admission Tests - Which Perform Better in Selecting Prospective Successful Bachelor Students in Biology?
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Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Subject Tests vs. General Study Skills Admission Tests - Which Perform Better in Selecting Prospective Successful Bachelor Students in Biology?
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
The effectiveness of various types of admission test in selecting prospective successful university students is being intensively discussed. Until 2015/2016, Faculty of Science, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) used a combination of a knowledge-based biology test and a general study skills test for selecting students into biological bachelor study programs. Since 2016/2017, the use of the general study skills test was abandoned and only the biology test has been used. The aim of our study is to evaluate the relation between students' scores in both types of admission tests and their academic performance in the bachelor degree. We analysed data from six subsequent academic years (2009/2010-2014/2015; n=1662). There was a rather weak correlation between the students' scores in the general study skills test and their grade average in the 1st study year. Scores of the biology test and the study average correlated moderately and this correlation was stronger than if the scores from both tests were pooled. The results of the admission test in biology quite well reflected the later student outcome of the final bachelor's exam, while in the case of the general study skills this relation was not significant. We therefore consider knowledge tests in biology being a more reliable criterion in selecting prospective students than the general study skills.
Název v anglickém jazyce
Subject Tests vs. General Study Skills Admission Tests - Which Perform Better in Selecting Prospective Successful Bachelor Students in Biology?
Popis výsledku anglicky
The effectiveness of various types of admission test in selecting prospective successful university students is being intensively discussed. Until 2015/2016, Faculty of Science, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) used a combination of a knowledge-based biology test and a general study skills test for selecting students into biological bachelor study programs. Since 2016/2017, the use of the general study skills test was abandoned and only the biology test has been used. The aim of our study is to evaluate the relation between students' scores in both types of admission tests and their academic performance in the bachelor degree. We analysed data from six subsequent academic years (2009/2010-2014/2015; n=1662). There was a rather weak correlation between the students' scores in the general study skills test and their grade average in the 1st study year. Scores of the biology test and the study average correlated moderately and this correlation was stronger than if the scores from both tests were pooled. The results of the admission test in biology quite well reflected the later student outcome of the final bachelor's exam, while in the case of the general study skills this relation was not significant. We therefore consider knowledge tests in biology being a more reliable criterion in selecting prospective students than the general study skills.
Klasifikace
Druh
D - Stať ve sborníku
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2020
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název statě ve sborníku
Conference Proceedings
ISBN
978-88-85813-90-8
ISSN
2384-9509
e-ISSN
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Počet stran výsledku
6
Strana od-do
362-367
Název nakladatele
Filodiritto Publisher
Místo vydání
Florence, Italy
Místo konání akce
Florence
Datum konání akce
19. 3. 2020
Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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