Achievement Test Scores and Scholastic Aptitude Test Scores As Predictors of College Level Examination Program Scores

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the predictive validity of the College Entrance Examination Board Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) and the College Entrance Examination Board Achievement Test scores in the prediction of scores earned by 300 students who took various subject area College Level Examination Program (CLEP) tests at Longwood College. Data consisted of SAT-Verbal (V), SAT-Mathematics (M), SAT-Total (T) scores, College Entrance Examination Board Achievement Test scores, and the various subject area CLEP test scores earned by 300 students from 1973 to 1978. The SAT-V scores yielded correlations of (1) .46 with CLEP Subject Area test scores in English Composition, (2) .45 with the CLEP Subject Area test scores in American History, (3) .49 with the CLEP Subject Area test scores in English Literature, and (4) .90 with the CLEP Subject Area test scores in the Analysis and Interpretation of Literature. The SAT-M scores furnished correlations of (1) .79 with the CLEP Subject Area test scores in College-Algebra and Trigonometry (2) .77 with the CLEP Subject Area test scores in the Analysis and Interpretation of Literature. The SAT-T scores afforded correlations of (1) .42 with the CLEP Subject Area test scores in English Composition, (2) .89 with the CLEP Subject Area test scores in the Analysis and Interpretation of Literature. The College Entrance Examination Board English Achievement test scores provided correlations of -.43, -.49, and .90, respectively, with the CLEP Subject Area test scores in American History, English Literature, and the Analysis and Interpretation of Literature. The College Entrance Examination Board Mathematics Achievement scores supplied correlations of -.62, .77, -.78, and .75, respectively, with the CLEP Subject Area test scores in American History, College-Algebra and Trigonometry, English Literature, and the Analysis and Interpretation of Literature. The College Entrance Examination Board American History Achievement test scores showed a substantial correlation of .69 with the CLEP Subject Area test scores in American History.