Journal article
Students with the initial "A" don't get better grades
Journal of research in personality, v 45(3), pp 340-343
01 Jun 2011
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Abstract
It has been claimed that students whose first or last name begins with the letters A or B have higher grade point averages than students whose first or last name begins with the letters C or D. We critique the analysis behind this claim, raising a number of issues that lead us to question the validity of the claim. We also test for a relation between student initial and GPA using two new datasets and find no evidence to support such a relation. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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- Title
- Students with the initial "A" don't get better grades
- Creators
- B. D. McCullough - Drexel UniversityThomas P. McWilliams - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Journal of research in personality, v 45(3), pp 340-343
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 4
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Decision Sciences (and Management Information Systems); [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000291287500011
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-79955475888
- Other Identifier
- 991019167648804721
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