PMID: 25743401Mar 7, 2015Paper

Do health professions graduate programs increase diversity by not requiring the graduate record examination for admission?

Journal of Allied Health
Peter S Cahn

Abstract

Seeking to increase the diversity of the health care workforce, prominent national commissions have called on health professions graduate schools to deemphasize standardized tests in admissions. Have programs that do not require standardized tests observed an increase in students from under-represented minority groups? The websites of the centralized application services for occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, and speech-language pathology programs were reviewed, and programs were identified that do not require the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) for admissions. Representatives were then invited to participate in a hypothesis-generating interview. The transcripts were coded using grounded theory to identify emerging themes. Faculty and administrators with admissions responsibilities representing 30 graduate programs in the health professions participated. Fewer than one-third of programs in each health profession surveyed do not require the GRE for admission. While test-optional programs attract students who might otherwise not apply to graduate school, the lack of a GRE requirement does not automatically increase the representation of under-represented minority students in the matriculated cl...Continue Reading

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