Validity of 3 prognosis tests to predict success in elementary statistics was determined for 3 separate classes. The criterion was a composite test of 100 concepts, problems, and open-ended exercises. In all 3 classes, competence in algebra and in the ability to grasp and use meanings of newly defined symbols gave the optimum regression equations. Computational estimation ability had no predictive power.
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