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在招生期间掩盖MCAT成绩是否会增加公平性?
概括
掩盖医学院招生考试 (MCAT) 的成绩旨在提高公平性,但减少了代表性不足的少数民族和第一代学生的入学. 该政策降低了招生委员会对优先级组的得分,尽管MCAT得分差异较大.
科学领域:
- 医学教育 医学教育
- 招生程序 招生程序 招生程序
- 卫生公平性健康公平性
背景情况:
- 众所周知,医学院招生考试 (MCAT) 的分数与种族,种族和社会经济地位有关.
- 制服服务大学实施了一项政策,以掩盖MCAT分数在或以上的第51百分位,以提高招生公平.
- 这一政策的具体目标是改善医学 (URM) 和第一代大学 (FGC) 毕业生代表性不足的入学率.
研究的目的:
- 评估掩盖医学院招生考试 (MCAT) 成绩对制服服务大学招生过程的影响.
- 评估掩盖MCAT成绩是否改善了医学 (URM) 和第一代大学 (FGC) 申请人代表性不足的入学公平性.
主要方法:
- 对2014-2016年 (掩盖之前) 和2018-2020年 (掩盖期间) 的申请人数据进行比较分析.
- 使用后勤回归来确定招生概率.
- 独立的样本t测试和线性回归分析了招生委员会得分和MCAT得分在决策中的权重.
主要成果:
- 掩盖MCAT成绩导致个人URM (OR 0.513) 和FGC (OR 0.695) 申请人的入学可能性降低.
- 优先级组申请人的平均录取委员会得分明显下降 (0.96分) 比非优先级组申请人的平均得分 (0.51分).
- MCAT成绩对招生委员会成绩的影响大大减少,成绩差异从10.9%降至1.2%.
结论:
- 与预期的效果相反,掩盖MCAT成绩降低了URM和FGC申请人的入学率.
- 虽然掩盖减少了MCAT成绩的整体影响,但它并没有提高优先级组的入学公平性.
- 当MCAT分数被纳入时,尽管已知分数差异,但录取决定被发现更公平.
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