GMAT Scores and Performance: Selecting Students into a Graduate Management School
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posted on 1981-01-01, 00:00 authored by R Marks, P Watt, Philip YettonPhilip YettonResearch shows that scores on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) are positively correlated with academic performance at graduate management schools. This study replicates this finding on Australian data and extends the analysis to cover performance at the individual course level as well as for aggregate grade point average. This traditional treatment of the data while directed at the admission decision is in fact structured to explain variance in performance. A novel analysis is presented in parallel which investigates the trade–off between Type I errors (rejecting a student who would pass) and Type II errors (accepting a student who fails). This reveals that, while GMAT may be a good predictor of performance, it is an inefficient discriminator for selection purposes. © 1981, SAGE Publications. All rights reserved.
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Australian Journal of ManagementVolume
6Pagination
81-102Location
London, EnglandPublisher DOI
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0312-8962eISSN
1327-2020Language
EnglishPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalIssue
2Publisher
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