Assessment of Academic Performance: Productive Lexical Competence as a Competence with Predictive Validity

 

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Auteur: Gonzalo Zapico, Martín
Format: artículo original
Statut:Versión publicada
Date de publication:2016
Description:Academic performance in higher education, specifically the ability to predict it, is an issue of enormous profusion in terms of both theory and practice. There is an agreement among researchers on how difficult it is to establish predictors, three have a moderate but inconclusive correlation degree: past performance, motivation and judgment. The hypothesis of this paper is that the productive lexical knowledge of a subject, which can be evaluated in terms of synonymy, is a factor that will determine academic performance. For this purpose, a quantitative comparison of the performance obtained by a group of students of Teaching of Language and Literature Teacher from the Language Professors of the IFDC, whom previously had been administered a test of synonyms, was performed. The results suggest that productive lexical knowledge, assessed in terms of synonymy, is a factor that predicts academic performance.
Pays:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institution:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Langue:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/9151
Accès en ligne:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ensayospedagogicos/article/view/9151
Mots-clés:Evaluación
desempeño académico
vocabulario productivo
evaluation
academic performance
productive lexical