Abstract:
A college admission test is required for colleges to admit qualified student candidates for various degree programs. Higher education institutions in the Philippines changed admission standards and examinations in response to the curriculum shift toward K to 12 Basic Education. This paper used discriminant analysis to examine the 415 test results of college entrants applying to a state university's teacher education program in Northern Mindanao, Philippines. The findings suggest that the college admission test can discriminate between competencies in the following order: Science and Technology, Language Proficiency, Mathematics, and Reading Comprehension. The emerging discriminant model can account for 67.8% of the variance in the grouping variable. Furthermore, cross-validated classification revealed that 95.4 percent of test-takers were appropriately classified as high or low performers on the college admissions exam. As a result, the paper's findings may be used to improve the student placement policy and even the admission exam questions.
Page(s):
117-120
DOI:
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Published:
Journal: Science International, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Year: 2022