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Anybody know of any studies correlating GPA with job performance or whatever GPA is supposed to be useful for?

aplusbi 16y ago
http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/13412205.html http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/13412205.h... "On the other hand, Dye and Reck's meta-analysis (1988) revealed that limited variations of undergraduate GPA (e.g., GPA for the last two years, or for courses in the major field) can be more valid predictors of performance than overall GPA. In addition, Colarelli, Dean, and Konstans (1987); Wise (1975); Harrell and Harrell (1974); and Weisbrod and Karpoff (1968) all found positive relationships between grades and performance. "
- reader5000 16y ago
  Eh, do quote fairly though: "Although GPA has been widely analyzed, the research has produced inconsistent results. Some meta-analyses suggest that grades have relatively low validity as a predictor of job success (Bretz, 1989; Hunter and Hunter, 1984). Individual studies by Ferris (1982) and Schick and Kunnecke (1982) support the meta-analysis findings; these studies found no relationship between grades and performance evaluations." In other words the state of research on this question, back in the early 90s when this article was written, was "inconsistent".
  - aplusbi 16y ago
    I considered included that paragraph but decided against it since your question was simply "Anybody know of any studies correlating GPA with job performance." This article quotes five studies that show a positive relationship. My point wasn't so much that the article supports the relationship, just that there are studies that do. Maybe I should have linked to the studies instead.
philwelch 16y ago
GPA is a measure of how well you do in school. The question is whether doing well in school correlates with job performance; obviously, you'd measure that by correlating GPA with some measurement of job performance (open question what that measurement would be).

http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/13412205.html http://www.entrepreneur.com/tradejournals/article/13412205.h... "On the other hand, Dye and Reck's meta-analysis (1988) revealed that limited variations of undergraduate GPA (e.g., GPA for the last two years, or for courses in the major field) can be more valid predictors of performance than overall GPA. In addition, Colarelli, Dean, and Konstans (1987); Wise (1975); Harrell and Harrell (1974); and Weisbrod and Karpoff (1968) all found positive relationships between grades and performance. "

reader5000 16y ago
Eh, do quote fairly though: "Although GPA has been widely analyzed, the research has produced inconsistent results. Some meta-analyses suggest that grades have relatively low validity as a predictor of job success (Bretz, 1989; Hunter and Hunter, 1984). Individual studies by Ferris (1982) and Schick and Kunnecke (1982) support the meta-analysis findings; these studies found no relationship between grades and performance evaluations." In other words the state of research on this question, back in the early 90s when this article was written, was "inconsistent".
- aplusbi 16y ago
  I considered included that paragraph but decided against it since your question was simply "Anybody know of any studies correlating GPA with job performance." This article quotes five studies that show a positive relationship. My point wasn't so much that the article supports the relationship, just that there are studies that do. Maybe I should have linked to the studies instead.

philwelch 16y ago

GPA is a measure of how well you do in school. The question is whether doing well in school correlates with job performance; obviously, you'd measure that by correlating GPA with some measurement of job performance (open question what that measurement would be).