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Predictors of students’ academic achievements in allied health professions at King Saud University: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: The admissions criteria for colleges of medicine and allied health professions include several cognitive predictors. Little is known of the admissions criteria for the allied health professions and their correlation with students’ academic performance. This study investigates predictors...

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Autores principales: Alhurishi, Sultana A., Aljuraiban, Ghadeer S., Alshaikh, Fahdah A., Almutairi, Mona M., Almutairi, Khalid M.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7866871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33549069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02525-x
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author Alhurishi, Sultana A.
Aljuraiban, Ghadeer S.
Alshaikh, Fahdah A.
Almutairi, Mona M.
Almutairi, Khalid M.
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description BACKGROUND: The admissions criteria for colleges of medicine and allied health professions include several cognitive predictors. Little is known of the admissions criteria for the allied health professions and their correlation with students’ academic performance. This study investigates predictors for students’ academic achievements at allied health colleges at King Saud University. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTINGS: College of Applied Medical Sciences, College of Nursing, and Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz College for Emergency Medical Services, Saudi Arabia. PARTICIPANTS: The sample comprised 1634 students. METHOD: The high school grade average (HSGA), aptitude test (APT) score, achievement test (ACT) score, and current grade point average (GPA) were retrieved. The data were analysed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and regression analysis. RESULTS: HSGA, ACT, and APT were significantly positively associated with students’ academic performance in colleges for all allied health professions. Multivariate regression analysis showed that the most predictive variable for all allied healthcare professions was HSGA (β = 0.347), followed by ACT (β = 0.270) and APT (β = 0.053) scores. The regression model indicated that the HSGA, APT, and ACT together predicted 26.5% of the variation in students’ cumulative GPAs at the time of graduation. CONCLUSION: The admissions criteria for the allied health colleges at King Saud University predicted only 26.5% of the students’ cumulative GPA at the time of graduation. Other noncognitive admission criteria should be taken into consideration to improve the prediction of students’ academic potential.
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spelling pubmed-78668712021-02-08 Predictors of students’ academic achievements in allied health professions at King Saud University: a retrospective cohort study Alhurishi, Sultana A. Aljuraiban, Ghadeer S. Alshaikh, Fahdah A. Almutairi, Mona M. Almutairi, Khalid M. BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: The admissions criteria for colleges of medicine and allied health professions include several cognitive predictors. Little is known of the admissions criteria for the allied health professions and their correlation with students’ academic performance. This study investigates predictors for students’ academic achievements at allied health colleges at King Saud University. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTINGS: College of Applied Medical Sciences, College of Nursing, and Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz College for Emergency Medical Services, Saudi Arabia. PARTICIPANTS: The sample comprised 1634 students. METHOD: The high school grade average (HSGA), aptitude test (APT) score, achievement test (ACT) score, and current grade point average (GPA) were retrieved. The data were analysed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and regression analysis. RESULTS: HSGA, ACT, and APT were significantly positively associated with students’ academic performance in colleges for all allied health professions. Multivariate regression analysis showed that the most predictive variable for all allied healthcare professions was HSGA (β = 0.347), followed by ACT (β = 0.270) and APT (β = 0.053) scores. The regression model indicated that the HSGA, APT, and ACT together predicted 26.5% of the variation in students’ cumulative GPAs at the time of graduation. CONCLUSION: The admissions criteria for the allied health colleges at King Saud University predicted only 26.5% of the students’ cumulative GPA at the time of graduation. Other noncognitive admission criteria should be taken into consideration to improve the prediction of students’ academic potential. BioMed Central 2021-02-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7866871/ /pubmed/33549069 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02525-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Aljuraiban, Ghadeer S.
Alshaikh, Fahdah A.
Almutairi, Mona M.
Almutairi, Khalid M.
Predictors of students’ academic achievements in allied health professions at King Saud University: a retrospective cohort study
title Predictors of students’ academic achievements in allied health professions at King Saud University: a retrospective cohort study
title_full Predictors of students’ academic achievements in allied health professions at King Saud University: a retrospective cohort study
title_fullStr Predictors of students’ academic achievements in allied health professions at King Saud University: a retrospective cohort study
title_full_unstemmed Predictors of students’ academic achievements in allied health professions at King Saud University: a retrospective cohort study
title_short Predictors of students’ academic achievements in allied health professions at King Saud University: a retrospective cohort study
title_sort predictors of students’ academic achievements in allied health professions at king saud university: a retrospective cohort study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7866871/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33549069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02525-x
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