Exhibit 13-6: a Researcher Collects the Following Measures on a Sample

question 116

Multiple Choice

Exhibit 13-6: A researcher collects the following measures on a sample of college students: scores on the SAT and the ACT, scores on an English composition test, high school class rank, scores on a noncognitive measure, whether or not students successfully completed the first year of college (pass-fail) , and their GPA.Choose the statistical procedures that the researcher should use to answer the following questions.
-Refer to Exhibit 13-6.What is the correlation between the noncognitive measure and college GPA after the influence of SAT on both variables has been removed?

• A) Partial correlation
• B) Factor analysis
• C) Multiple regression
• D) Discriminant analysis
• E) Product-moment correlation

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