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Marja Martin-Carruth – ProQuest LLC, 2023
College and university admission testing requirements often serve as a barrier to many students seeking advanced degrees. Many graduate school admission boards/committees use the minimum testing requirement as a predictor variable to explain a student's chance for success in a program. Before the 2020 Fall semester, many graduate schools required…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Testing, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
Rudner, Lawrence M. – Graduate Management Admission Council, 2012
Computer-based testing can be a powerful means to make all aspects of test administration not only faster and more efficient, but also more accurate and more secure. While the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) exam is a computer adaptive test, there are other approaches. This installment presents a primer of computer-based testing terms.
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Testing, Vocabulary, Definitions
Goodrich, Jonathan N. – Educational Technology, 1975
Author questions the widespread use of standardized tests as measures of academic potential, aptitude and ability. The Graduate Record Exam and the Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business are two examples used. (HB)
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Test Validity, Testing, Testing Problems
Schrader, William B. – 1984
This report provides information on test development, test administration, and score interpretation for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). The GMAT, first administered in 1954, provides objective measures of an applicant's abilities for use in admissions decisions by graduate management schools. It is currently composed of five…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Business Administration, College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study
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Wright, Robert E.; Bachrach, Daniel G. – Journal of Education for Business, 2003
Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) scores and grade point average in graduate core courses were compared for 190 male and 144 female business administration students. No significant differences in course performance were found, but males had been admitted with significantly higher GMAT scores, suggesting a bias against women. (Contains 27…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Admission, Females, Grade Point Average
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Rogers, Priscilla S. – Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1994
Describes the addition of a writing performance assessment to the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), and how development of the Analysis of Argument measure and the Persuasive Adaptiveness measure helps explain the holistic writing score given during grading of the GMAT. Correlates holistic and analytic scores, revealing a positive…
Descriptors: Administrators, Communication Research, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education