MCAT Verbal Reasoning score: Less predictive of medical school performance for English language learners

Medical Education

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 878-886

  Winegarden, Babbi ^a   Glaser, Dale ^b   Schwartz, Alan ^c   Kelly, Carolyn ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; COLLEGE ADMISSION TEST; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84865282427     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2012.04315.x     Document Type: Article

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