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Peer reviewedWesten, Risdon J.; Lenning, Oscar T. – College and University, 1973
Descriptors: Admission (School), Admission Criteria, Competitive Selection, Higher Education
Download full textWillingham, Warren W. – 1973
The available objective evidence suggests that the accuracy of predicting which students will succeed in a particular graduate school is often no better than modest, especially if such predictions are based only upon a test or a grade record. Taken together these two types of predictors do a reasonably good job, considering the restricted range of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Competitive Selection, Graduate Study
Flaugher, Ronald L. – 1970
Some of the controversial issues involved in the use of objective tests by institutions of higher education, as this use affects the selection and attendance by members of minority groups, are reviewed. Admissions committees now rely on the ability of a test to predict students' performance at their institution to guide their selection. However,…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Admission Criteria, College Admission, Competitive Selection
