Abstract

CHAIN REVUELTA, Ragueb; CRUZ RAMIREZ, Nicandro; MARTINEZ MORALES, Manuel  and  JACOME AVILA, Nancy. Admission Tests and the Probability of Academic Success in Higher Education: A Study in a Mexican State Public University. REDIE [online]. 2003, vol.5, n.1, pp.1-17. ISSN 1607-4041.

Increasing figures in the new admission process to higher education institutions as well as a decreasing velocity in the expansion of the academic offering are responsible for an emergent need: to put in practice specific selective criteria, admission tests being one of these criteria. This paper proposes an approximation to the relationship between the results obtained by students belonging to the areas of knowledge classified by EXANI II and their educational behavior in higher education institutions. It also analyses available information on the results of EXANI II as well as the career behavior of 6,937 first year Universidad Veracruzana students. All this information refers to year 1998. For the analysis, conditional independence tests, as well as tools of simple correlation were put in practice. Without being conclusive, data analysis suggests a certain degree of correlation between the grades obtained in EXANI II and higher education efficiency.

Keywords : Admission tests; students efficiency; higher education.

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