Undergraduate grades and the Miller Analogies Test as predictors of graduate success.

Platz, Arthur; McClintock, Charles; Katz, Daniel S.

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“…A review of the studies by Capps and DeCosta (1957), Cureton, Cureton, and Bishop (1949), Fahey (1953), Hyman (1957), Jenson (1953), Kelley and Fiske (1951), Platz, McClintoch, andKatz (1959), andWalters andPatterson (1953) suggested that:…”

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Ability factors of candidates for graduate school.

Mehrabian¹

1970

American Psychologist

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Ability factors of candidates for graduate school.

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1970

American Psychologist

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“…Several prior studies have indicated that the usefulness of the MAT in predicting success in graduate school has not been noteworthy, (Gill and Marascuilo, 1967;Hall and Robertson, 1964;Hyman, 1957;and Platz, McClintock, and Katz, 1959). In a study at Utah State University, Borg (1963), determined that the GRE was of little value in predicting completion of a doctoral program and obtaining a degree.…”

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Predictive Validity of the Graduate Record Examination and the Miller Analogies Tests

Nagi

1975

Educational and Psychological Measurement

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For a sample of 63 graduate students, 33 of whom did complete and 30 of whom did not complete a doctoral program in Educational Administration at the State University of New York at Albany, statistically nonsignificant point biserial coefficients of 0.140 and 0.087 were determined respectively for the total scores on the aptitude portion of the Graduate Records Examination and scores on the Miller Analogies Test relative to the dichotomous criterion of completion or lack of completion.

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“…May be reproduced with no cost by students and faculty for academic use. Non-academic reproduction requires payment of royalties through the Copyright Clearance Center, http://www.copyright.com/ and criteria usually produces disappointingly low estimates of predictive validity for such variables as undergraduate GPA and GRE scores (Lannholm, 1968;Lannholm et al, 1968;Platz et al, 1959;Hyman, 1957). This is to be expected on purely logical grounds, since only selected applicants who are relatively similar to each other on indices considered can be studied.…”

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Utility of Policy Capturing as an Approach to Graduate Admissions Decision Making

Schmidt

Johnson

Gugel

1978

Applied Psychological Measurement

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The present study examined and evaluated the application of linear policy-capturing models to the real-world decision task of graduate admissions. Major findings were that (1) effectiveness of policy capturing was moderated by psychology sub-areas, with the experimental and clinical subgroups showing the highest and lowest predictability, respectively ; (2) utility of the policy-capturing models was great enough to be of practical significance; and (3) least squares weights showed no predictive advantage over equal weights. In psychology one body of research results that has not been fully exploited for its applications potential is that concerned with human judgment and decision making (Slovic & Lichenstein, 1971). Over 20 years of research have resulted in a number of verified principles of potentially great practical and social value. For example, the evidence is overwhelming that decision tasks requiring the integration and combination of information items to produce an overall judgment or prediction are better performed actuarially (using regression weights derived by analysis against the criterion measure) than by human decision makers (Meehl, 1954; Sawyer, 1966). It is also known that virtually all kinds of human decision makers (e.g., clinical APPLIED PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT Vol. 2, No. 3 Summer 1978 pp. 345-35 7 @ Copyright 1978 West Publishing Co. psychologists, medical diagnosticians, stockbrokers) can be successfully simulated by linear models and that these models are as successful as, and sometimes more successful than, more

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Undergraduate grades and the Miller Analogies Test as predictors of graduate success.

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

Ability factors of candidates for graduate school.

Ability factors of candidates for graduate school.

Predictive Validity of the Graduate Record Examination and the Miller Analogies Tests

Utility of Policy Capturing as an Approach to Graduate Admissions Decision Making

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