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Beyond the numbers: Departure from selection by rank order of grades and standardized test scores in selective admissions.

机译：超越数字：按选择性录取的等级和标准化考试分数的等级顺序进行选择。

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This study examines law school admission decisions that differ from selection by rank order of grades and standardized test scores. Critics opine that these decisions indicate instances of preferential treatment in which lesser qualified candidates are selected over better-qualified candidates. Their theory is that these decisions contradict "normal treatment" under "merit selection," and can indicate preferential treatment based on race, gender, or other factors. An unexplored question raised by these criticisms is whether these decisions actually indicate instances in which schools select lesser-qualified over better-qualified candidates.; This study examines admission decisions for 111 law schools, and finds that approximately 23 percent of decisions to admit appear to be instances of preferential treatment when observed admission decisions are measured by the critics' metric, testing whether candidates with lower grades and scores are selected over candidates with higher grades and scores. In contrast, this study also finds that less than 1.5 percent of decisions to admit appear to be instances of preferential treatment when measured by metrics that treat grades and scores as academic performance predictors, testing whether refused candidates with higher grades and scores could be expected to perform "better" than admitted candidates with lower grades and scores. These finding suggest that the critics' metric can dramatically overstate possible instances of proferential treatment where a school treats candidates' grades and scores as performance predictors rather than as competitive selection criteria.; This study also finds that across schools, the portion of decisions to admit that differ from selection by rank order of grades and scores varies: (1) inversely with admission rate, (2) directly with admissible candidates per offer of admission, and (3) directly with minimal admissibility standards. These findings suggest that decisions that differ from selection by rank order of grades and scores are related to excess demand from fully-qualified candidates.; The study discusses possible implications of these findings for the debate over the use of factors like race in admissions. These findings have direct implications for reverse discrimination claims in which decisions that differ from selection by rank order of grades and scores are often treated as evidence of preferential treatment.
机译：这项研究检查了法学院的入学决定，这些决定与按年级和标准化考试分数的选择不同。批评者认为，这些决定表明了优惠待遇的例子，在这种情况下，选择资格较低的候选人而不是资格较高的候选人。他们的理论认为，这些决定与“择优选择”下的“正常待遇”相抵触，并且可以表明基于种族，性别或其他因素的优惠待遇。这些批评引起了一个未经探讨的问题，即这些决定是否实际上表明了学校选择资格较低的候选人而不是资格较高的候选人的情况。这项研究检查了111所法学院的录取决定，发现当观察者的录取决定通过评论家的衡量标准衡量时，大约23％的录取决定似乎是优惠待遇的实例，测试是否选择了成绩和分数较低的候选人成绩和分数更高的候选人。相比之下，这项研究还发现，当通过将成绩和分数视为学术成绩预测指标的指标进行衡量时，只有不到1.5％的承认决定似乎是优惠待遇的实例，测试是否可以预期拒绝具有更高成绩和分数的候选人与成绩和分数较低的录取候选人相比，表现“更好”。这些发现表明，批评者的度量标准可能会夸大可能采用的特殊待遇，即学校将考生的成绩和分数作为绩效预测指标，而不是竞争性甄选标准。这项研究还发现，在各学校中，根据年级和分数的等级顺序选择与录取不同的决定部分有所不同：（1）与录取率成反比;（2）每个录取要约直接与可录取的候选人有关;（3） ）直接以最低的可采性标准。这些发现表明，与按等级和分数的等级顺序选择不同的决策与完全合格的候选人的超额需求有关。该研究讨论了这些发现可能对入学中使用种族等因素进行辩论的可能含义。这些发现对反歧视主张具有直接意义，在反歧视主张中，与按等级和分数的等级顺序选择不同的决定通常被视为优惠待遇的证据。

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    Morton, G. Todd.;

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    Harvard University.;

  • 授予单位 Harvard University.;
  • 学科 Education Tests and Measurements.; Law.; Education Administration.; Education Higher.
  • 学位 Ed.D.
  • 年度 2000
  • 页码 202 p.
  • 总页数 202
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 教育;法律;教育;高等教育;
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