The possibility of weighing disadvantagement in undergraduate and graduate admissions is addressed. The results of preliminary research suggest that objective measures of disadvantagement can be developed so as to increase minority students' chances of being selected. (Author/LBH)

Addresses pressure placed upon college admission offices, arguing that admissions staff are evaluated, not by what they do or how well they do it, but by numbers: how many first-year students, transfer students, and minority students have enrolled; and how one year's enrollment compares to previous year's enrollment. Urges working toward practice…

A potential generalizable approach for assessing, eliciting, and codifying criteria to select candidates for positions in the Hennepin County Medical Center primary care internal medicine residency program is described. The approach involves a faculty questionnaire designed to examine the importance of various types of criteria. (JMD)

A study is reported that compared a group of 24 applicants who were interviewed and accepted at the Yale University School of Medicine but went to other medical schools with a group who attended the same schools but had been rejected at Yale following an interview and committee deliberation. (Author/MLW)

Presents brief history, written for school counselors, on entrance examinations used in college and university admission procedures, noting use of such examinations as early as fourteenth century. Discusses College Entrance Examination Board, Scholastic Aptitude Test, multiple-choice versus essay tests, score distributions, American College…

Evaluation plays an important role in the academic career of students and instructors. It is a concept that is repeated throughout the academic year and one that determines future roles and placement of students. This report is a summary of the findings of the first two years of a five-year research study of evaluation conducted at Edinburgh…