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Validity of the Medical College Admission Test for Predicting MD-PhD Student Outcomes
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Bills, James L.; VanHouten, Jacob; Grundy, Michelle M.; Chalkley, Roger; Dermody, Terence S. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2016
The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) is a quantitative metric used by MD and MD-PhD programs to evaluate applicants for admission. This study assessed the validity of the MCAT in predicting training performance measures and career outcomes for MD-PhD students at a single institution. The study population consisted of 153 graduates of the…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Predictive Validity
Predicting First-Quarter Test Scores from the New Medical College Admission Test.
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Cullen, Thomas J.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1980
The predictive validity of the new Medical College Admission Test as it relates to end-of-quarter examinations in anatomy, histology, physiology, biochemistry, and "ages of man" is presented. Results indicate that the Science Knowledge assessment areas of chemistry and physics and the Science Problems subtest were most useful in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Grade Prediction
Incremental Validity of the New MCAT.
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Friedman, Charles P.; Bakewell, William E., Jr. – Journal of Medical Education, 1980
The ability of the new Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) to predict performance of first-year medical students at the University of North Carolina was studied. Its incremental validity, determined by computing the additional variance in performance explainable by the MCAT after the effects of other admissions variables were taken into account,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, Grade Prediction, Higher Education
The New MCAT and Medical Student Performance.
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Friedman, Charles P.; Bakewell, William E., Jr. – Journal of Medical Education, 1980
An analysis of the new Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and its relationship to the criterion of class standing achieved in the school year ending in the spring of 1979 has been undertaken by the University of California, Irvine, to determine the MCAT's predictive power so that test results can be used in admissions procedure. (Author/JMD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Rank, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
Determination of Validity and Bias in the Use of GPA and MCAT in the Selection of Medical School Students.
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Vancouver, Jeffrey B.; And Others – 1989
The ability of the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) and undergraduate grade point average (GPA) to predict success in medical school was studied, and two complementary methods of determining if the tests are biased against ethnic groups were examined. Data from 497 majority and 82 minority medical students at the College of Human Medicine at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Ethnic Groups, Grade Point Average
An Investigation of Gender-Related Test Bias for the Medical College Admission Test.
Jones, Robert F.; Vanyur, Suzanne – 1985
The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) was examined for sex bias. Data for student samples from two midwestern state-supported medical schools were analyzed. The criteria included average course grades in each of the first two years of medical school. Tests comparing various regression models based on male and female subgroups generally failed…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Females, Grade Point Average, Grade Prediction