A Randomized Study to Assess the Effect of Including the Graduate Record Examinations Results on Reviewer Scores for Underrepresented Minorities
| Autor: | Kala M. Mehta, Eva Wong-Moy, Amanda M. Irish, Francois Rerolle, Kristina Dang, Cecily Miller, Meghan D. Morris, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Inez Bailey, Elizabeth Fair, Sarah F Ackley, M. Maria Glymour |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Graduate Record Examinations (GRE)
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology Vietnamese Medical and Health Sciences Mathematical Sciences law.invention diversity Native hawaiian Racism Randomized controlled trial Clinical Research law Underrepresented Minority medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences AcademicSubjects/MED00860 School Admission Criteria underrepresented minority (URM) Education Graduate Graduate American Indian or Alaska Native Minority Groups African american education Academic Success Native american 05 social sciences Racial Groups 050301 education Original Contribution language.human_language graduate admissions College Admission Test Mental Health Family medicine language underrepresented minority Pacific islanders San Francisco Graduate Record Examinations Psychology 0503 education randomized study 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Epidemiology American journal of epidemiology, vol 190, iss 9 |
| ISSN: | 1476-6256 0002-9262 |
| Popis: | Whether requiring Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) results for doctoral applicants affects the diversity of admitted cohorts remains uncertain. This study randomized applications to 2 population-health doctoral programs at the University of California San Francisco to assess whether masking reviewers to applicant GRE results differentially affects reviewers’ scores for underrepresented minority (URM) applicants from 2018–2020. Applications with GRE results and those without were randomly assigned to reviewers to designate scores for each copy (1–10, 1 being best). URM was defined as self-identification as African American/Black, Filipino, Hmong, Vietnamese, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American/Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander. We used linear mixed models with random effects for the applicant and fixed effects for each reviewer to evaluate the effect of masking the GRE results on the overall application score and whether this effect differed by URM status. Reviewer scores did not significantly differ for unmasked versus masked applications among non-URM applicants (β = 0.15; 95% CI: −0.03, 0.33) or URM applicants (β = 0.02, 95% CI: −0.49, 0.54). We did not find evidence that removing GREs differentially affected URM compared with non-URM students (β for interaction = −0.13, 95% CI: −0.55, 0.29). Within these doctoral programs, results indicate that GRE scores neither harm nor help URM applicants. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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