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Klieger, David; Bochenek, Jennifer; Ezzo, Chelsea; Holtzman, Steven; Cline, Frederick; Olivera-Aguilar, Margarita – International Journal of Testing, 2022
Consideration of socioemotional skills in admissions potentially can increase representation of racial and ethnic minorities and women in graduate and professional education as well as identify candidates more likely to succeed in graduate and professional school. Research on one such assessment, the ETS Personal Potential Index (PPI), showed that…
Descriptors: College Admission, Graduate Study, Professional Education, Interpersonal Competence
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Bridgeman, Brent; Burton, Nancy; Cline, Frederick – Applied Measurement in Education, 2009
Descriptions of validity results based solely on correlation coefficients or percent of the variance accounted for are not merely difficult to interpret, they are likely to be misinterpreted. Predictors that apparently account for a small percent of the variance may actually be highly important from a practical perspective. This study combined two…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Grade Point Average
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Bridgeman, Brent; Burton, Nancy; Cline, Frederick – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
Descriptions of validity results for the GREĀ® General Test based solely on correlation coefficients or percentage of the variance accounted for are not merely difficult to interpret, they are likely to be misinterpreted. Predictors that apparently account for a small percentage of the variance may actually be highly important from a practical…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Test Validity, Grades (Scholastic)