{"title":"¿Rendimiento en exámenes o promedio general? Algunas cuestiones sobre la medición del rendimiento académico en investigación","authors":"S. Dominguez-Lara","doi":"10.16925/PE.V13I21.1712","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Introduction : Academic performance (AP) is a relevant subject in educational research, but its operationalization is still subject to controversy since there is no unified opinion on considering weighted average (WA) or test performance (TP) as a measure of ap in research, especially with situation-dependent constructs such as test anxiety (TA). Objective : The objective was to analyze empirical equivalence between WA and TP. Method : 115 psychology students from a private university with ages between 18 and 31 (M = 22,704; SD = 3,126) belonging to three different academic cycles participated. They were evaluated with the State-Test Anxiety Inventory, also considering test scores and weighted averages of each student. Regarding data analysis, bivariate correlations between tp and wa (rTP-WA) were implemented. Subsequently, the rTP-WA observed in different cycles were compared. Finally, we analyzed differences between ta-tp (rTA-TP) and TA-WA (rTA-WA) correlations observed in each cycle. All analyses were complemented with a magnitude measure of the effect. Results : The correlation between TP and WA is of low magnitude, and the differences found between correlations were not statistically significant. Conclusions : It is not convenient to consider TP and WA as equivalent in the context of studies with situation-dependent variables. The importance of overcoming the limitations observed in this study was suggested.","PeriodicalId":53843,"journal":{"name":"Pensando Psicologia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2017-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Pensando Psicologia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.16925/PE.V13I21.1712","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Introduction : Academic performance (AP) is a relevant subject in educational research, but its operationalization is still subject to controversy since there is no unified opinion on considering weighted average (WA) or test performance (TP) as a measure of ap in research, especially with situation-dependent constructs such as test anxiety (TA). Objective : The objective was to analyze empirical equivalence between WA and TP. Method : 115 psychology students from a private university with ages between 18 and 31 (M = 22,704; SD = 3,126) belonging to three different academic cycles participated. They were evaluated with the State-Test Anxiety Inventory, also considering test scores and weighted averages of each student. Regarding data analysis, bivariate correlations between tp and wa (rTP-WA) were implemented. Subsequently, the rTP-WA observed in different cycles were compared. Finally, we analyzed differences between ta-tp (rTA-TP) and TA-WA (rTA-WA) correlations observed in each cycle. All analyses were complemented with a magnitude measure of the effect. Results : The correlation between TP and WA is of low magnitude, and the differences found between correlations were not statistically significant. Conclusions : It is not convenient to consider TP and WA as equivalent in the context of studies with situation-dependent variables. The importance of overcoming the limitations observed in this study was suggested.