Who Sends Scores to GRE-Optional Graduate Programs? A Case Study Investigating the Association between Latent Profiles of Applicants’ Undergraduate Institutional Characteristics and Propensity to Submit GRE Scores

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ID22043980
AuthorsSugene Cho-Baker (Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ 08541, USA), Sugene Cho‐Baker (Educational Testing Service, corresponding author), Harrison J Kell (0000-0002-9401-5371, Educational Testing Service, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume12
Issue8
Pages529
Publication date2022-08-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducation Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2227-7102 • E-ISSN: 2227-7102
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/educsci12080529
OpenAlexW4289992845
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited37

Many programs have made the submission of GRE scores optional. Little research examines differences in propensity to submit scores according to applicants’ characteristics, however, including the type of undergraduate institution they attended. This study’s purpose was to examine the degree to which the type of undergraduate institution applicants attended predicted score submission to GRE-optional programs, including when controlling for covariates (demographics, program degree and discipline, undergraduate grades). We used data provided by a doctoral degree–granting university to answer our research question. We indexed differences in GRE score submission using odds ratios. Both individually (1.93) and after controlling for covariates (2.00), we found that applicants from small, bachelor’s degree–granting schools were more likely to submit scores than applicants from large, doctoral degree–granting schools. Men were more likely to submit scores than women (1.55). Larger effects were observed for program characteristics: Ph.D. versus master’s (2.94), humanities versus social sciences (3.23), and fine arts versus social sciences (0.16). Our findings suggest that there may be differences in propensity to submit GRE scores to test-optional programs and that some of these differences may be associated with variables (undergraduate school, program type) that have not been widely discussed in the literature

Bachelor · Covariate · Demographics · Graduate degree · Logistic regression · Medical education · Odds · Political science · Propensity score matching · Sociology · Statistics · Demography · Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation · Higher Education Research Studies · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · School Choice and Performance

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