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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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Klieger, David M.; Belur, Vinetha; Kotloff, Lauren J. – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
This survey study investigated how graduate school admissions committees perceive and use the "GRE"® General Test and "GRE"® Subject Tests after the launch of the "GRE"® revised General Test in August 2011. These perceptions and uses impact the validity of the tests. Prior research about the perceptions and uses of…
Descriptors: Research Reports, College Entrance Examinations, Evaluation Utilization, Graduate Study
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von der Embse, Nathaniel P.; Scott, Emma-Catherine; Kilgus, Stephen P. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
Multitiered frameworks of service delivery have traditionally underserved students with mental health needs. Whereas research has supported the assessment and intervention of social and academic behavior across tiers, evidence is limited with regard to mental health concerns including internalizing behaviors (e.g., anxiety and depression). In…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Mental Disorders, Mental Health, Evaluation Methods
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Liu, Ou Lydia; Klieger, David M.; Bochenek, Jennifer L.; Holtzman, Steven L.; Xu, Jun – ETS Research Report Series, 2016
International institutions have been increasingly using the "GRE"® revised General Test to admit students to graduate programs.However, little is known about how scores from the GRE revised General Test are used in the admission process outside of the United States and their validity in predicting graduate students' performance (e.g.,…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Test Use, Scores
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Rock, JoAnn Leah; Adler, Rachel M. – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate the ways in which universities use the "GRE"® General Test scores to award merit-based fellowships to first-year graduate students in doctoral programs. While GRE use in fellowship award decisions is a common practice, there is very little validity evidence to support its use in this context.…
Descriptors: Scores, Decision Making, College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study
Braun, Henry I. – 1988
Empirical Bayes (EB) methods are frequently used on hierarchical linear models in practice. This paper provides an overview of parametric EB methods with special emphasis on their application in data-analytic settings. Eight different models with different levels of complexity are described. Comparisons of performance with other methods are…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, College Students, Data Analysis, Higher Education
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Rosenfeld, Michael; Courtney, Rosalea; Fowles, Mary – ETS Research Report Series, 2004
The authors conducted a large-scale survey to confirm that the writing skills being assessed in the GRE® General Test can be linked to writing tasks that were judged to be important by graduate faculty from a variety of subject areas and across a wide range of institutions at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The results obtained in this…
Descriptors: Surveys, Writing Skills, College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study