Can Academic Potential Tests Predict Students’ Learning Outcomes?

DOI

10.2991/ahsr.k.210115.032How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Academic Potential Test, Mini-quiz Value, Numerical, Spatial, Test Score, Verbal Subtest

Abstract

The Medical Education Study Program is a favorable department study program at Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. Thus, the department increases the students’ input standard to keep quality. There are various kinds of tests for selecting new students, including course tests, psychological tests (TPA and MMPI), health tests, and interview tests. Test types used to measure students’ cognitive abilities at PSPD are final block exams and tutorial mini-quiz. Both types of tests use Multiple Choice Question (MCQ). The study aims to determine the correlation of academic potential tests with students’ cognitive abilities illustrated through mini-quiz scores and block test scores. The research method used was an analytic observational research design using a cross-sectional approach. The sample of the research was 97 students. The analysis results showed that the total TPA results did not affect the mini-quiz and block examinations score (p>0.05). It can be concluded that there was no relationship between the values of the verbal, numerical, spatial, and overall value of the landfill with mini-quiz values. This study concluded that there was no relationship between the academic potential tests on students’ mini-quiz scores in the Medical Education Study Program (PSPD). However, this TPA’s results had a positive correlation on numerical sub-tests with the results of their block tests, even though the spatial and verbal sub-tests did not correlate.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - S. Sundari
AU  - SW Putro
AU  - GA Sadrina
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/16
TI  - Can Academic Potential Tests Predict Students’ Learning Outcomes?
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2020–Health Science and Nursing (ICoSIHSN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 151
EP  - 155
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.210115.032
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.210115.032
ID  - Sundari2021
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