A blurred signal? The usefulness of National Senior Certificate (NSC) Mathematics marks as predictors of academic performance at university level

Internationally, performance in school Mathematics has been found to be a reliable predictor of performance in commerce courses at university level. Based on the predictive power of school-leaving marks, universities use results from school-leaving Mathematics examinations to rank student applicant...

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Main Authors: Volker Schöer, Miracle Ntuli, Neil Rankin, Claire Sebastiao, Karin Hunt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2010-06-01
Series:Perspectives in Education
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Online Access:http://196.255.246.28/index.php/pie/article/view/22