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Counselor Opinion As A Predictor Of Academic Success For Entering College Freshmen, Billy Dicken
Counselor Opinion As A Predictor Of Academic Success For Entering College Freshmen, Billy Dicken
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The purpose of this study was to determine if high school counselors' predictive opinions of freshman college academic success were reliable indicators of actual college academic success achieved by freshman students.
Eleven null hypotheses were tested which involved high school counselors' opinions of college freshman grade point average and actual college grade point average achieved by freshmen in regard to the following variables: (1) sex of the counselor, (2) high school location, (3) sex of the student, (4) high school size, and (5) high school accreditation. All except one of the null hypotheses were rejected at the .05 level of …