Validity of Admissions Measures in Predicting Performance Outcomes: A Comparison of Those Who Were and Were not Accepted at McMaster

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-48

  Kulatunga Moruzi, Chan ^a   Norman, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; LICENSING; MEDICAL SCHOOL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; LICENSURE, MEDICAL; ONTARIO; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL;

EID: 0036886966     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15328015TLM1401_10     Document Type: Review

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