The Correlation Coefficient Between High School Grade Point Average (GPA)

question 714

Multiple Choice

The correlation coefficient between high school grade point average (GPA) and college GPA is
0) 560. For a student with a high school GPA that is 2.5 standard deviations above the mean, we
Would expect that student to have a college GPA that is ______ the mean.

• A) equal to
• B) 2.5 SD above
• C) 1.4 SD above
• D) 0.56 SD above

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