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Article: Use of demographic and quantitative admissions data to predict academic difficulty among professional physical therapist students.(Education Special Series)
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- Physical Therapy
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Professional physical therapist education programs use a variety of measures of academic performance, aptitude, and affective characteristics when selecting students for admission. (1,2) Of these, grade point average (GPA) and standardized test scores are commonly used quantitative indicators. (1) In a survey of allied health education programs, physical therapist program directors ranked overall preadmission GPA and GPA in prerequisite courses as the most important factors for admissions decisions. (1) Although many authors (3-16) have studied the utility of these measures, little guidance exists on whether or how such data may be used to predict performance of individual ...