Choosing a Proxy for Academic Aptitude
Abstract
Although academic ability is the most important explanatory variable in studies of student learning, researchers control for it with a wide array of proxies and combinations thereof. We investigate how the proxy choice affects estimates of undergraduate student learning by testing over 150 specifications of a single model, each including a different combination of 11 scholastic aptitude measures — high school GPA and rank and variants of college...
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Choosing a Proxy for Academic Aptitude
Published Date
Jan 1, 2013
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