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Marja Martin-Carruth – ProQuest LLC, 2023
College and university admission testing requirements often serve as a barrier to many students seeking advanced degrees. Many graduate school admission boards/committees use the minimum testing requirement as a predictor variable to explain a student's chance for success in a program. Before the 2020 Fall semester, many graduate schools required…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Testing, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
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Boote, Stacy K.; Boote, David N.; Williamson, Steven – Cogent Education, 2021
Several decades of research suggesting differences in test performance across paper-based and computer-based assessments have been largely ameliorated through attention to test presentation equivalence, though no studies to date have focused on graph comprehension items. Test items requiring graph comprehension are increasingly common but may be…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Graphs
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Hamlen, Karla R.; Hamlen, William A. – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
The authors' purpose was to investigate the predictive value of faculty salaries on outgoing salaries of master of business administration (MBA) students when controlling for other student and program variables. Data were collected on 976 MBA programs using Barron's "Guide to Graduate Business Schools" over the years 1988-2005 and the…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Masters Degrees, Business Administration Education, Salary Wage Differentials
Chisholm, Alex – Graduate Management Admission Council, 2014
This Data-to-Go brief summarizes five year GMAT testing trends for US and Canadian residents, and race/ethnicity breakdowns for US citizens. It includes: (1) GMAT exams taken by US region, US state of residence, and race/ethnicity of examinees (US citizens only), (2) GMAT exams taken by Canadian residents, by Canadian province, (3) GMAT exams…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Differences, Ethnic Groups, Geographic Location
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Scott, Susanne G. – Journal of Management Education, 2010
This article reports the findings of an empirical study of the effectiveness of portfolios as learning tools in a sample of MBAs. The results showed that portfolio use was positively related to reflection, defined here as the conscious awareness and questioning of personal experience, a search for alternative explanations and interpretations, and…
Descriptors: Reflection, Portfolios (Background Materials), Business Administration Education, Graduate Students
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Fairfield-Sonn, James W.; Kolluri, Bharat; Singamsetti, Rao; Wahab, Mahmoud – American Journal of Business Education, 2010
This paper reports on the influence of waiving the GMAT requirement on academic performance as measured by grade-point-average at graduation for 833 University of Hartford MBA students who graduated between 2003 and 2009. In seeking to better understand what factors might be influencing graduation GPA, we examined a variety of traditional…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Business Administration Education, Grade Point Average
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Truell, Allen D.; Zhao, Jensen J.; Alexander, Melody W.; Hill, Inga B. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 2006
The twofold purpose of this study was (a) to determine if selected variables were significant predictors of final MBA student program performance and (b) to determine if selected variables explained a significant proportion of the variance in final MBA student program performance at an AACSB-accredited university. Variables examined include age at…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Masters Programs, Program Effectiveness, Prediction