The Thurgood Marshall School of Law Empirical Findings: A Report of the Relationship between Graduate GPAs and First-Time Texas Bar Scores of February 2010 and July 2009

The following report gives descriptive and correlational statistical findings of the Grade Point Averages (GPAs) of the February 2010 and July 2009 TMSL First Time Texas Bar Test Takers to their TMSL Final GPA. Data was pre-existing and was given to the Evaluator by email from the Dean and Registrar. Statistical analyses were run using SPSS 17 to address the following questions: 1) What are the statistical descriptors of the first-time February 2010 and July 2009 TMSL Bar students' GPAs in conjunction with their Bar scores? and 2) What is the relationship of the Final GPA of the First Time Bar Test Takers and their GPAs? After the presentation of the data findings, a summary section is written at the end of this report/study addressing the above research questions.