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Evaluating the Predictive Validity of Graduate Management Admission Test Scores
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Sireci, Stephen G.; Talento-Miller, Eileen – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
Admissions data and first-year grade point average (GPA) data from 11 graduate management schools were analyzed to evaluate the predictive validity of Graduate Management Admission Test[R] (GMAT[R]) scores and the extent to which predictive validity held across sex and race/ethnicity. The results indicated GMAT verbal and quantitative scores had…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Grade Point Average, Ethnicity, Prediction
GMAT--Fact or Fiction: A Look at the Validity of the Exam.
Benson, Gary – 1983
A research project was designed and conducted to determine specifically whether the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) has any predictive value in determining how well masters of business administration (MBA) students perform in graduate management education. Several types of information were drawn from the student files of 360 past or…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Business Administration Education, College Entrance Examinations, Correlation
The Predictive Validity of Preadmission Measures in Graduate Management Education: Three Years of the GMAC Validity Study Service.
Hecht, Lawrence W.; Powers, Donald E. – 1982
The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) Validity Study Service was created to enable graduate schools of management to investigate the adequacy of the devices and procedures they use for selection purposes and to facilitate the accumulation and summary of data from many individual graduate management schools. Participating schools are…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Business Administration Education, College Entrance Examinations, Correlation
The Validity of the Graduate Management Admissions Test for Non-U.S. Students
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Koys, Daniel J. – Journal of Education for Business, 2005
In this study, the author examined the validity of the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) for non-U.S. students (N = 75) through a predictive validation procedure in which applicants were given the predictor test but the test results were not used to admit students. The author's business school admitted students to three overseas MBA…
Descriptors: Test Results, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Predictive Validity
Predicting Academic Success of Students in a Master of Business Administration Program.
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Graham, Lawrence D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1991
Selection criteria at a graduate school of business were examined in a study evaluating the predictive validity of the Graduate Management Admissions Test and the Miller Analogies Test for 203 recent graduates. Implications of the correlations between test results and grade point average for admission policy are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Business Administration Education, College Entrance Examinations
Factors Affecting GMAT Predictive Validity for Foreign MBA Students: An Exploratory Study. Research Report.
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Wilson, Kenneth M. – 1985
This study was designed to explore the effect of selected test and background variables on the pooled within-school relationship between Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) scores and first year grade average (FYA), and to assess the potential role of selected Test of English as a Foreign Language-related variables as supplemental predictors…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Entrance Examinations, Correlation, English (Second Language)