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The GMAT as a Predictor of MBA Performance: Less Success than Meets the Eye
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Kass, Darrin; Grandzol, Christian; Bommer, William – Journal of Education for Business, 2012
Consistent with previous research, the authors found that the combined use of undergraduate grade point average and the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) verbal and quantitative sections successfully predicted performance in a master of business administration (MBA) program. However, these measures did not successfully predict the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Grade Point Average, Program Effectiveness, Business Administration Education
GMAT versus Alternatives: Predictive Validity Evidence from Central Europe and the Middle East
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Koys, Daniel – Journal of Education for Business, 2010
The author found that the GPA at the end of the MBA program is most accurately predicted by the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). MBA GPA is also predicted, though less accurately, by the Scholastic Level Exam, a mathematics test, undergraduate GPA, and previous career progression. If…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Predictive Validity, Prediction, Foreign Countries
The Admissions Test for Graduate Study in Business: A Factor Analytic Study
Pounders, Cedric J. – Educ Psychol Meas, 1970
The EAS though less time consuming is shown to cover major psychological constructs of the ATGSB, and to offer a measure of the perceptual speed factor that was hypothesized to be related to success in computer-oriented and other data-analysis requirements in graduate business a schools. (Author/ES)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Business Education, College Entrance Examinations, Factor Analysis
Ability Testing and Graduate Admissions: Decision Process Modeling and Validation.
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Youngblood, Stuart A.; Martin, Billy J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
A nonadditive linear model consisting of both Graduate Management Admission Test scores and undergraduate grades adequately portrayed the decision-making process of a Master of Business Administration program admissions officer. The results are discussed in light of the recent criticisms of the use of standardized tests as admissions criteria.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Business Administration Education
GPA, GMAT, and Scale: A Method of Quantification of Admissions Criteria.
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Sobol, Marion G. – Research in Higher Education, 1984
Multiple regression analysis was used to establish a scale, measuring college student involvement in campus activities, work experience, technical background, references, and goals. This scale was tested to see whether it improved the prediction of success in graduate school. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Business Administration, Data Analysis
Standardized Testing and Graduate Business School Admission: A Review of Issues and an Analysis of a Baruch College MBA Cohort.
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Fisher, John B.; Resnick, Donald A. – College and University, 1990
Baruch College (New York) recently conducted a cohort study relating factors used in Masters in Business Administration admissions with first year grade point average in the program. Data from the fall 1986 entering cohort strongly supported the value of the Graduate Management Admission Test in predicting first year grades. (MLW)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Business Education, College Admission, Grade Point Average
University Programs. Symposium 20. [AHRD Conference, 2001].
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2001
This symposium on university programs consists of three presentations. "Institutional and Curricular Characteristics of Leading Graduate Human Resource Development (HRD) Programs in the United States" (K. Peter Kuchinke) reports a study on institutional arrangements, student enrollments, and core curriculum content and found a large…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Education, Business Administration Education, College Students