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Reliability and Validity of an Attribute-Based Autobiographical Sketch Medical School Admission Tool, the Mini-Curriculum Vitae: Implications for Admission Decision Making
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Trinh, Kien – ProQuest LLC, 2016
A curriculum vitae (CV) is probably the most important first piece of information for an employer to evaluate for job applications (Cole et al. 2007). The CV may lead to an interview for the position advertised. Therefore, writing a good CV is extremely essential and it is a valuable life skill to have. However, there have been debates as to the…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, College Admission, Resumes (Personal), Reliability
Necessary but Not Sufficient? Youth Responses to Localised Returns to Education in Australia
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Biddle, Nicholas – Education Economics, 2013
In this paper, the 2001 Australian Census is used to estimate predicted net benefits of education at a small geographic level. These are then linked to youth in the areas to test the associations with high school participation. This is done separately for Indigenous youth, a population sub-group with historically low levels of education…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Cost Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Educational Benefits
Pilot Study for Standardizing Rapid Automatized Naming and Rapid Alternating Stimulus Tests in Arabic
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Abu-Hamour, Bashir – International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2013
This study examined the acceptability, reliability, and validity of the Arabic translated version of the Rapid Automatized Naming and Rapid Alternating Stimulus Tests (RAN/RAS; Wolf & Denckla, 2005) for Jordanian students. RAN/RAS tests are a vital assessment tool to distinguish good readers from poor readers. These tests have been…
Descriptors: Naming, Semitic Languages, Reading Tests, Test Reliability