Who Sends Scores to GRE-Optional Graduate Programs? A Case Study Investigating the Association between Latent Profiles of Applicants’ Undergraduate Institutional Characteristics and Propensity to Submit GRE Scores
Education Sciences
; 12(8):529, 2022.
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in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-2023287
ABSTRACT
Many programs have made the submission of GRE scores optional. Little research examines differences in propensity to submit scores according to applicants’ characteristics, however, including the type of undergraduate institution they attended. This study’s purpose was to examine the degree to which the type of undergraduate institution applicants attended predicted score submission to GRE-optional programs, including when controlling for covariates (demographics, program degree and discipline, undergraduate grades). We used data provided by a doctoral degree–granting university to answer our research question. We indexed differences in GRE score submission using odds ratios. Both individually (1.93) and after controlling for covariates (2.00), we found that applicants from small, bachelor’s degree–granting schools were more likely to submit scores than applicants from large, doctoral degree–granting schools. Men were more likely to submit scores than women (1.55). Larger effects were observed for program characteristics Ph.D. versus master’s (2.94), humanities versus social sciences (3.23), and fine arts versus social sciences (0.16). Our findings suggest that there may be differences in propensity to submit GRE scores to test-optional programs and that some of these differences may be associated with variables (undergraduate school, program type) that have not been widely discussed in the literature.
Education; graduate school admissions; test-optional policies; Graduate Record Examinations; GRE; GRExit; GRE-optional; graduate education; holistic admissions; latent class analyses; Author productivity; Students; College admissions; Achievement tests; Investigations; Standardized tests; Trends; Graduate studies; Demographics; Pandemics; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Ethnicity; Coronaviruses; Entrance examinations; COVID-19; Bias; United States--US
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Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Education Sciences
Year:
2022
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Article
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