The Correlation between Scholastic Achievement Tests (SAT) and Actual Scholastic Achievements (ASA)

• Main Authors: YU. CHIU-FEN, 余秋芬
• Other Authors: LI. SUE─LING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95151338440248704879

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 國際企業管理研究所 === 92 === This thesis research area is an analysis on Taiwan’s undergraduate multiple en-trance examination methodologies based on the current three entrance scholastic achievement tests. (SAT) The focus of this research is based on the statistical-analyses methodology, ana-lyzing students in the freshman of academic year 2002, doing a canonical correlation analyses on the three different types of SAT held in comparison with their ASA after entrance into their respective programs/colleges, based on the student sampling and data of the Chinese Culture University, in Taiwan. This research was done in the hopes of recommending to universities and colleges considering the pros and cons of rec-ommending better directions towards SAT held as freshman entrance examinations held in the future. The results of this research are: I 、The correlations of the high school SAT and the ASA in college. a. There is a close correlation between the English scores in scholastic achieve-ment tests and actual scholastic achievements in college. b. There is no correlation between the Chinese, Mathematics, Sociology, and Science scores in SAT and the ASA in college. c. There is little correlation between the admission via recommendation and the ASA in college. d. There is a high correlation between the ASA in language subjects and overall subjects, no matter what forms of entrance tests they took. e. Among all different forms of the entrance tests, the admission via recommen-dation in art colleges has a close correlation with the ASA in college. On the other hand, the ASA in college has little correlation with the self-application based test scores. II. The ASA in college via these three current entrances SAT in eight colleges correlated with different subjects in SAT in different colleges. a. Admission via recommendation based tests: There is no obvious correlation between the ASA in college and the scores of admission via recommenda-tion. b. Self-Application based tests: Students in business college who were admit-ted via these tests showed better ASA in foreign language subjects in college compared to other students who were admitted to the colleges via other forms of entrance tests. However, these students showed no better perform-ance on other subjects except language field. c. Examination re-shuffling based tests: The students in engineering college who were admitted via these tests showed better ASA in Chinese, Computer, Foreign Languages and compulsory subjects in comparison with the students who were admitted via other forms entrance tests. The students in science colleges showed better ASA in Computer and compulsory subjects in com-parison with the students who were admitted via other form of entrance tests. The students in art colleges showed better ASA in compulsory subjects in comparison with the students who were admitted via other forms of entrance tests.