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Governing by Testing: Circulation, Psychometric Knowledge, Experts and the "Alliance for Progress" in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s
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Alarcón, Cristina – European Education, 2015
This paper analyzes the activities, members, and effects of an inter-American expert network for the diffusion of psychometric knowledge, specifically of standardized aptitude testing for university admission in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s. Within the framework of educational transfer studies, the role of international,…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, College Admission, Standardized Tests, Aptitude Tests
Overview: What's Worked and What Hasn't as a Guide towards Predictive Admissions Tool Development
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Siu, Eric; Reiter, Harold I. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2009
Admissions committees and researchers around the globe have used diligence and imagination to develop and implement various screening measures with the ultimate goal of predicting future clinical and professional performance. What works for predicting future job performance in the human resources world and in most of the academic world may not,…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Student Evaluation, Grade Point Average, Medical Schools
Vocational Training for Disabled Students. A Handbook on Assessment.
Warren, Sue Allen; Gardner, David C. – 1977
The Vocational Instruction, Training and Assessment (VITA) Project conducted a study to determine whether a battery of tests used with a sample of handicapped students enrolled in vocational education program(s) could aid in predicting success in vocational training. Procedures, instruments, and student samples were selected to provide data on (1)…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Experience, Guidelines, Handicapped Students