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Download full textBasturk, Ramazan – Online Submission, 1999
Purpose: This paper will: (1) review the validity of the Graduate Record Examination for predicting international students' Graduate Grade Point Average (GGPA); and (2) inspect possible social, cultural and language bias or learning style differences in the prediction of international students' performance from Graduate Record Examination (GRE)…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Study, Cognitive Style, Grade Point Average
Nieli, Russell – Online Submission, 2004
In the eyes of much of the academic establishment, William Bowen and Derek Bok's "The Shape of the River" is the definitive defense of affirmative action. Released in 1998, this book, which was also sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, claimed that racial preferences at America's elite universities were crucial to the growth and maintenance of a…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Affirmative Action, Selective Admission, College Admission
