What is it about?
The Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) is a measure of a student's overall pre-tertiary academic achievement in Australia. It has often been debated whether the ATAR is a useful predictor of potential to be successful in an ICT. Our study did find that the ATAR can be used as significant indicator that a student will successfully complete the first year of our ICT degree but not whether they would eventually graduate.
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Why is it important?
For most tertiary degree programs across Australia, the selection of year 12 domestic applicants is based on an ATAR, on the premise that selection based on a student's overall academic achievement prior to university is a predictor of success for tertiary study. This paper is an analysis into whether the ATAR can be used to predict student success in an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) degree.
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This paper was completed in the early stages of my PhD that was investigating attrition in ICT courses and exploring methods to engage and retain students.
Dr Nicole Herbert
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This page is a summary of: Is the ATAR a useful predictor of success in ICT?, January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3160489.3160495.
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