Table 3.
Summary of review findings: predictors of academic performance in occupational therapy students.
| Predictors of academic performance | Outcome | Frequency of studies reporting association |
Studies | Mean MERSQI score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sociodemographic factors | ||||
| Age | (i) Greater outcomes with older students | 2/3 | [3], [12] | 12 |
| (ii) No significance | 1/3 | [15] | 13.5 | |
| Sex | (i) Greater outcomes with women | 2/3 | [12], [15] | 13.25 |
| (ii) No significance | 1/3 | [3] | 11 | |
| Living with spouse or partner or not | Greater outcomes with living with spouse or partner |
1/1 | [3] | 11 |
| Time spent on self-study | (i) Greater outcomes with more time engaged in self-study activities |
1/2 | [12] | 13 |
| (ii) No significance | 1/2 | [15] | 13.5 | |
| Cognitive factors | ||||
| Admitted GPA | Greater outcomes with higher admission GPA | 2/2 | [13], [14] | 11 |
| GRE | Greater outcomes with higher GRE | 1/1 | [13] | 11 |
| Confidential reference | Greater outcomes with higher scores of confidential reference |
1/1 | [14] | 11 |
| Study approach | (i) Greater outcomes with deep and strategic approaches | 1/2 | [12] | 13 |
| (ii) Greater outcomes with strategic approach | 1/2 | [15] | 13.5 | |
Note. GPA: grade point average; GRE: graduate record examination scores; MERSQI: Medical Education Research Study Quality Instrument; CEQ: Course Experience Questionnaire.