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Wightman, Linda F. – 1994
This study investigated differences in performance on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) and subsequent applications and admission decisions separately for men and women. Data were drawn from the 1990-1991 law school applicant pool, a total of 83,336 applicants, who generated 417,103 applications at 178 law schools. The undergraduate grade point…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Entrance Examinations, Grade Point Average, Higher Education
Wightman, Linda F. – 1993
One purpose of this study was to summarize data across schools to provide documentation of the generalizability of the claim of validity of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) for use in the law school admission process. A more important purpose is to provide national longitudinal data for law schools to examine against their school-specific data…
Descriptors: Admission (School), College Entrance Examinations, Correlation, Grade Point Average
Anthony, Lisa C.; Liu, Mei – 2003
This study was designed to address questions of differential prediction of law school grades for various racial/ethnic minority subgroups. Differential prediction was evaluated by comparing the predicted and actual law school first-year grade point averages (FYAs) for various racial/ethnic subgroups within individual law schools based on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian American Students, Black Students, College Entrance Examinations
Wightman, Linda F. – 1993
This report provides information about test takers with disabilities who participated in a variety of accommodated administrations of the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). Results indicate the number of LSATs administered with accommodations increased 100% from 1990 to 1993. During that 4-year period, more than 2,700 LSATs were administered under…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Aptitude Tests, Data Analysis, Data Collection