Sandra Nicholson

TL;DR: A systematic review synthesises the extant research evidence on the relative strengths of various selection methods and offers a research agenda and identifies key considerations to inform policy and practice in the next 50 years.

TL;DR: UKCAT has predictive validity as a predictor of medical school outcome, particularly in mature applicants to medical school, and the validity of using all the existing measures of educational attainment in full at the time of selection decision-making is confirmed.

TL;DR: This study of a major subgroup of applicants in the first year of operation suggests that UKCAT has an inherent favourable bias to men and students from a higher socioeconomic class or independent or grammar schools, however, it does provide a reasonable proxy for A levels in the selection process.

TL;DR: This study aims to examine diversity‐related benefits of the use of situational judgement tests (SJTs) in the UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) in terms of three demographic variables: socio‐economic status; ethnicity; and gender.

TL;DR: Educational attainment has strong CLPVs for undergraduate and postgraduate performance, accounting for perhaps 65% of true variance in first year performance, and justify the use of educational attainment measure in selection, but also raise a key theoretical question concerning the remaining 35% of variance.