Hall F R, Bailey B A
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755.
Acad Med. 1992 Feb;67(2):121-3. doi: 10.1097/00001888-199202000-00017.
Reviewing the predictive validity of admission criteria to improve the selection process is important to a school in maintaining quality in the entering class. For this reason, the authors studied how the academic criteria used to select the 420 students who entered Dartmouth Medical School from 1982 to 1986 compared with the students' first-year academic performances. The criteria used were Medical College Admission Test scores, undergraduate science grade-point averages, and college selectivity (i.e., the academic caliber of the students' undergraduate colleges). Results showed that a combination of these criteria were useful in identifying the students who were successful in their first year. The authors suggest that their findings also demonstrate the ability to an admission committee to subjectively weigh these academic criteria with consistent results in student performance.
审查录取标准的预测效度以改进选拔过程，对于一所学校维持入学班级的质量而言至关重要。出于这个原因，作者研究了1982年至1986年用于选拔进入达特茅斯医学院的420名学生的学术标准与这些学生一年级学业成绩之间的比较情况。所使用的标准包括医学院入学考试成绩、本科理科平均绩点以及大学选拔性（即学生本科院校的学术水平）。结果表明，这些标准的组合有助于识别一年级表现出色的学生。作者认为，他们的研究结果还表明录取委员会有能力主观权衡这些学术标准，并在学生表现上取得一致结果。
