The performance-diversity tradeoff in admission testing

Choosing Students: Higher Education Admissions Tools for the 21st Century

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 109-125

  Sackett, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410612533     Document Type: Chapter

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