Aduloju, M. O., Adikwu, Odihi, and Tsanger Terkura
PREDICTIVE VALIDITY OF POST UNIFIED TERTIARY MATRICULATION
EXAMINATION SCORES AGAINST CUMULATIVE GRADE POINT AVERAGE OF UNDERGRADUATES IN BENUE STATE
The successive introduction of different complementary criteria for admission into Nigerian Universities and other higher institutions is informed by the desire to get candidates properly screened to ensure that only the most qualified are admitted. This also presupposes that there has ever been the felt-need to continue to improve on the admission process in order to ensure that those admitted have the potential to succeed in the task ahead of them. The latest of these admission criteria, which was introduced and later cancelled, is Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME). This was purported to be an aptitude test that should not only select suitably qualified candidates for admission but also predict their performances in the undergraduate programme. This paper assesses the relationship between performance of students in Post-UTME and their performance in the undergraduate programme in the universities in Benue State, with a view to determining the potency or otherwise of the cancelled aptitude test. Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was adopted to select 376 out of 6301 students
admitted by three universities in Benue State, during the 2011/2012 session. Post-UTME scores of those sampled and their 2nd year Cumulative Grade point Average (CGPA) were collected, using a self-constructed proforma and correlated using Spearman ranked order correlation (r). The coefficient of determination (r2) was also calculated to ascertain the extent to which variations in student’s CGPA are explained by Post-UTME scores. Based on the findings, appropriate recommendations were made.
KEYWORDS:
Post-UTME, Aptitude Test, Assessment and Predictive validity.
Aduloju, M. O., Adikwu, Odihi, and Tsanger Terkura
PREDICTIVE VALIDITY OF POST UNIFIED TERTIARY MATRICULATION EXAMINATION SCORES AGAINST CUMULATIVE GRADE POINT AVERAGE OF UNDERGRADUATES IN BENUE STATE
The successive introduction of different complementary criteria for admission into Nigerian Universities and other higher institutions is informed by the desire to get candidates properly screened to ensure that only the most qualified are admitted. This also presupposes that there has ever been the felt-need to continue to improve on the admission process in order to ensure that those admitted have the potential to succeed in the task ahead of them. The latest of these admission criteria, which was introduced and later cancelled, is Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME). This was purported to be an aptitude test that should not only select suitably qualified candidates for admission but also predict their performances in the undergraduate programme. This paper assesses the relationship between performance of students in Post-UTME and their performance in the undergraduate programme in the universities in Benue State, with a view to determining the potency or otherwise of the cancelled aptitude test. Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was adopted to select 376 out of 6301 students admitted by three universities in Benue State, during the 2011/2012 session. Post-UTME scores of those sampled and their 2nd year Cumulative Grade point Average (CGPA) were collected, using a self-constructed proforma and correlated using Spearman ranked order correlation (r). The coefficient of determination (r2) was also calculated to ascertain the extent to which variations in student’s CGPA are explained by Post-UTME scores. Based on the findings, appropriate recommendations were made. KEYWORDS: Post-UTME, Aptitude Test, Assessment and Predictive validity.