Standardized Tests Predict Graduate Students' Success
- 23 February 2007
- journal article
- education forum
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 315 (5815), 1080-1081
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1136618
Abstract
Standardized admissions tests are valid predictors of many aspects of student success across academic and applied fields.Keywords
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