Re: ITracking Lab Users

["Dr. Beth Rapp Young" <byoung@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>]

Whoops, Anne, sounds like I completely misunderstood your question.  I thought
you had found higher SAT scores among your clients and were wondering how to
explain that. . . .  Our results are similar to Stevens--our clients have
lower SAT scores, but higher grades.  A report on one such grade study is
online at http://reach.ucf.edu/~uwc/about/data.html

Beth Young

snewmann@sfasu.edu wrote:

> Anne, at the clients we see in the writing center here usually have SAT's
> that are 15-30 points or more lower than the non-clients.  At the same
> time their grades in the course are usually better.  That is--higher
> percentages of clients earn successful grades than non-clients and lower
> percentages of clients earn unsuccessful grades than to non-clients.
> Successful grades are "A","B", and "C" and unsuccessful grades are "D","F"
> and "W".
>
> stephen
>
> On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, anne mullin wrote:
>
> > We do a similar thing here at ISU -- through the student data base, all
> > that information is available -- students sign a consent form that
> > allows the data to be used in the aggregate to compile our statistical
> > reports about lab users --
> > Another question about using these figures, though, relates to the
> > standardized test scores  -- if the lab users already have higher
> > scores, how can we make the case that using the lab contributes to their
> > higher GPA's in general?
> >
> >

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