Entries Tagged as ‘Academia’

June 29, 2009

Ph.D. student attrition and the myth of personality factors

Having just completed a rather lengthy graduate school program, I am mystified that the Educational Testing Services — the company that administers the GRE and other standardized tests, including the SAT and TOEFL – is offering a new test to determine whether students have the “personality” for graduate school (reported in the Chicago Tribune by [...]