THE VALIDITY OF ACADEMIC PREDICTORS FOR BLACK AND WHITE STUDENTS AT A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE UNIVERSITY1

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Abstract
High school grades and both the verbal and mathematical scales of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT‐V and SAT‐M, respectively) were examined as predictors of college grade point average in groups divided by race and sex. Results indicated that high school grades were not correlated as highly with college grades for black males as for the other three groups, although there were no significant differences in the correlation of either SAT‐V or SAT‐M with college grades. Moreover, the multiple regression equation for the black male group differed from the equations for the other groups in that SAT‐V is the predictor of primary importance rather than high school grades. Weights derived on a random sample of the student body caused substantial shrinkage of the multiple R only in the black male sample. Both black males and black females were significantly overpredicted by such weights. The importance of separate prediction equations for race‐sex groupings was emphasized.