القدرة التنبؤية للشهادة الثانوية بالتحصيل الأكاديمي الجامعي بجامعة الخرطوم

This study aims at determining the predictive validity of academic achievement in higher scnery school with respect to university academic achievement, and investigating the relationship of variables such as faculty, program of choice, university level and sex of the student on the obtained predictive validity of high school performance. Of the population of the study is represented by the students of university of Khartoum who were admitted to the academic years 93-1994, 94-1995, 95-1996. the total stratified sample of the study is 1655. the data was subjected to analysis using computer statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). Various statistical treatment were employed including Multiple Regression, analysis of variance, and Pearson Correlation – Coefficient. Findings showed that high school percentage is a reliable predictor of the academic achievement at the university level. The university study level of the student is associated with the predictive validity of the high school certificate. Findings also showed that the predictive validity of some subjects (specially Arabic and English language) is greater than the whole predictive validity of high school certificate