| dc.description.abstract | This study is on pre-admission predictors of academic
performance among cooperative management students. The study
sought to investigate whether or not pre-admission attributes of
cooper-ative management students can help to predict their
academic performance in College. The main objective was to
identify significant predictors of academic performance out of
the student attributes selected. their relationship with academic
per-formanc e and the predictive ability of derived modelCs).The
predictor variables selected for the study :Mat-ital
status.academic achievements.general Knowledge.sex.number of
years out of school.personality and interest in the programme_
The major primary source of my data were student records at
the ministry of Cooperative. Data on 87 students was gathered and
analysed using correlation and regression analysis. Another group
of 85 students was used to validate the three models derived
using Theil's inequality coefficient. The validaiion results
confirmed the good p;edictive ability of the models.
The criterion variables used to derive the three models
wer'e:Over-all academic performance.academic pet-f or manc e in
accounting related courses and academic performance in nonaccounting
related courses.From the results of the analysis and
model validatio~ .it was fou~d that academic predictors for
accounting related courses are fairly different from those for
non accounting "t-elated cours es .On Iy personality appeared
significantly related with the two response variables.
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Out of the seventeen predictive factors used in this study
,only years out of school, English
language,personality,mathematics,science,and '0' level aggregate
were found significantly related with at least one of the
criterion variables used.In situations where a particular
variable was found significantly related with more than one
criterion variable its relative importance varied.In the order of
importance English Language ,personality, mathematics,and
'Level aggregate were significantly related with performance
in accounting. While years out of school ,mathematics
,personality,, and English language showed significant correlation
with overall academic performance.On the other hand years out of
school,science and personality were found important in predicting
performance in non-accounting courses | en |
