Investigating Postgraduate College Admission Interviews: Generalizability Theory Reliability and Incremental Predictive Validity

Journal of Hispanic Higher Education

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 118-134

  Arce Ferrer, Alvaro J ^a   Castillo, Irene Borges ^b  

^a Harcourt Assessment Inc   (United States)

^b Secretaría de Educación Pública   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive and noncognitive criteria; face to face interviews; postgraduate college admissions; reliability; incremental predictive validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990374658     PISSN: 15381927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1538192707299287     Document Type: Article

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