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Mendoza-Sanchez, Itza; deGruyter, Justine N.; Savage, Nowlan T.; Polymenis, Michael – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
There is interest in admission criteria that predict future success in biomedical graduate school programs, but identifying predictors of PhD attainment is inherently complex. In particular, high noncompletion rates of PhD programs have long been recognized as a major crisis. Here, we present a quantitative analysis of the PhD students enrolled in…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Undergraduate Students, Predictor Variables, Doctoral Students
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Young, Nicholas T.; Caballero, Marcos D. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
One argument for keeping the physics Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is that it can help applicants who might otherwise be missed in the admissions process stand out. In this work, we evaluate whether this claim is supported by physics graduate school admissions decisions. We used admissions data from five Ph.D.-granting physics departments over a…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, College Applicants, Selective Admission
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Sternberg, Robert J.; Wong, Chak Haang; Sternberg, Karin – Journal of Intelligence, 2019
We conducted two studies to replicate and extend, as well as test, the limits of previous findings regarding an apparent disconnect between scientific-reasoning skills in psychological science, on the one hand, and scores on standardized tests of general intelligence, on the other. In Study 1, we examined whether this disconnect would extend…
Descriptors: Psychology, Sciences, Thinking Skills, Multiple Choice Tests
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Attali, Yigal – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
Previous research on calculator use in standardized assessments of quantitative ability focused on the effect of calculator availability on item difficulty and on whether test developers can predict these effects. With the introduction of an on-screen calculator on the Quantitative Reasoning measure of the "GRE"® revised General Test, it…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Calculators, Test Items
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Wao, Hesborn O. – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2010
Secondary data on 1,028 graduate students nested within 24 programs and admitted into either a Ph. D. or Ed. D. program between 1990 and 2006 at an American public university were used to illustrate the benefits of employing multilevel discrete-time hazard analysis in understanding the timing of doctorate completion in Education and the factors…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Grade Point Average, Doctoral Programs, Gender Differences
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Burton, Nancy W.; Wang, Ming-mei – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
GRE verbal and quantitative scores and undergraduate grade point average were evaluated as predictors of multiple measures of long-term graduate school success. The measures of success were cumulative graduate grade point average and faculty ratings on three student characteristics: mastery of the discipline, professional productivity, and…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, Predictor Variables, Success