Alyssa M. Walters

TL;DR: This article reviewed the literature on "noncognitive" predictors-specifically, personality as it pertains to graduate education and concluded that there are many qualities faculty ranked high in desirability but which could only imperfectly be gleaned from sources such as letters of recommendation and personal statements.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the applicability of previous experimental research on stereotype threat to operational Graduate Record Examinations® (GRE®) general test testing centers and found no direct support for stereotype threat and, in fact, found some effects for proctor ethnicity that ran counter to a stereotype threat explanation.

TL;DR: This article reviewed the literature on noncognitive and other background predictors (e.g., personality, attitudes, and interests) as it pertains to graduate education and found that there appears to be a divergence between the qualities faculty members say are important and the measures researchers typically use in validity studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the evaluation instruments that may comprise a standardized letter of recommendation (SLR) are generated for various types of entities (e.g., business, education institutions, government, etc.).