Richard R. Reilly

A study of test speededness as a potential source of bias in the quantitative score of the Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business

Minority and majority groups were administered a special quantitative section of the Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business (ATGSB) under varying time conditions to determine if increasing the time allotted for the test would eliminate any bias that may exist due to an irrelevant speed factor. By a commonly employed definition, the special section was found to be moderately speeded for all candidates under normal time conditions. Neither the main effects due to time condition nor the interaction between the ethnic and time factors was statistically significant, suggesting that increasing the time per item does not reduce any bias that may exist in the test. Although a substantial proportion of minority group scores fell at or below the chance level, these appeared to retain fairly high levels of reliability.

Contributions of Selected Transcript Information to Prediction of Law School Performance

IT is not surprising that past academic performance has often been found to be the best single predictor of future academic performance. Admissions offices in graduate and professional schools have long recognized this fact, and as a result virtually all schools require complete records of previous performance in the form of transcripts. The use then made of this transcript information may depend upon individual admissions offices, but judging from statements in college and graduate school catalogues and from most published prediction studies one overall index of in-