Selection at the right tail
By: Robert E. Klitgaard
Publisher: Harvard University
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Admission; Entrance requirements; Prediction of scholastic success; Prediction of occupational success; Harvard University
Description: "This report has three aims. First, it hopes to initiate and structure discussions about the objectives of admissions. Second, it tries to sort out the considerable confusion over the use of imperfect information in predicting academic performance and later-life achievments.... Third, it surveys several new kinds of predictors including psychological tests and simulations of professional tasks, which might be adopted in admissions."--P. iii.
Notes: Title from cover.

"July 1982".

The title refers to the right-hand side of a bell curve, "that is, prediction among an already self-selected sample with very high levels of achievements, grades, test scores, recommendations, and so forth"--P. iii.