Is Graduate School Really for You?: The Whos, Whats, Hows, and Whys of Pursuing a Master’s or Ph.D by Amanda I. Seligman (review)

Felder, Pamela

doi:10.1353/rhe.2013.0027

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“…In addition to examining the relationship between the PPI and GGPA, we dichotomized GGPA in order to examine the relationship between PPI and receipt of a grade lower than B. We were interested in grades lower than B as an outcome, as in many institutions these grades can result in academic probation (Seligman, 2012) and, hence, they can be used as one indicator of a lack of degree progress.…”

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Using Third-Party Evaluations to Assess Socioemotional Skills in Graduate School Admissions

Klieger¹,

Bochenek²,

Ezzo³

et al. 2021

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Consideration of socioemotional skills in admissions potentially can increase representation of racial and ethnic minorities and women in graduate education as well as identify candidates more likely to succeed in graduate school. Research on one such assessment, the ETS Personal Potential Index (PPI), showed that the PPI produced much smaller racial/ethnic-gender group mean score differences than undergraduate grade point average (UGPA) and the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) did. Across levels of institutional selectivity, the PPI can promote racial/ethnic and gender diversity in graduate and professional school in ways that UGPA and GRE scores do not. Predictive validity analyses showed that for doctoral STEM programs the PPI dimensions of (i) Planning and Organization and (ii) Communication Skills positively predict graduate school grade point average as well as a lower risk of academic probation, a determinant of degree progress, both alone and incrementally over UGPA and GRE scores.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…GGPA is not a measure purely of intellective behaviors, as it reflects some of the same socioemotional behaviors that UGPA does (see Verostek et al, 2021). A GGPA falling below a B can result in academic probation at many US institutions (Seligman, 2012).…”

Section: The Graduate Record Examinations General Test (Gre)mentioning

confidence: 99%