A researcher collects the following measures on a sample of college students: scores on the SAT and the ACT, scores on an English composition test, high school class rank, scores on a noncognitive measure, whether or not students successfully completed the first year of college (pass-fail), and their GPA. Choose the statistical procedures that the researcher should use to answer the following
questions.
Refer to Exhibit 13-6. Is SAT or ACT the better single predictor of GPA?
a. Partial correlation
b. Factor analysis
c. Multiple regression
d. Discriminant analysis
e. Product-moment correlation
E
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