Once the best student always the best student? Predicting graduate study success using undergraduate academic indicators: Evidence from research masters’ programs in the Netherlands

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Once the best student always the best student? Predicting graduate study success using undergraduate academic indicators: Evidence from research masters’ programs in the Netherlands
 
Kurysheva, Anastasia; Koning, Nivard; Fox, Christine; van Rijen, HVM; Dilaver, Gönül
(2022) International Journal of Selection and Assessment, volume 30, issue 4, pp. 579 - 595
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Abstract
In the face of increasing and diversifying graduate application numbers, evidence-based selective admissions have become a pressing issue. By conducting multilevel regression analyses on institutional admissions data from a Dutch university, this study aims to determine the predictive value of undergraduate academic indicators for graduate study success on research masters’ ... read more
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Keywords: GPA, admissions, graduate education, master's degree, student selection, study success, thesis, General Business,Management and Accounting, Applied Psychology, General Psychology, Strategy and Management, Management of Technology and Innovation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsa.12397
ISSN: 1468-2389
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Note: Funding Information: The authors would like to thank prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende for her supervision of this study and the overarching PhD project focused on graduate selective admissions. The authors are also grateful to educational data specialist Guus Dikker. His professional advice on data processing was very valuable. This study received internal institutional funding. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. International Journal of Selection and Assessment published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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