Development of an Inventory of Documented Accomplishments for Graduate Admissions.

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This is a report about the first two stages of a four-stage project designed to develop procedures to assess the accomplishments of applicants to graduate school. In the first stage, trial instruments were developed after thoroughly reviewing other attempts at assessing accomplishments and carefully considering the issues involved. Three prototypes were developed based on three approaches: a checklist approach, a semi-documented approach, and a CAEL-like open-ended portfolio approach. In the second stage, an instrument was developed that was designed to meet the operational and conceptual requirements of an inventory of documented accomplishments for graduate selection using as many of the positive features of earlier approaches in as simple a format as possible. This version was reviewed by a diverse group of people concerned with graduate admissions for the purpose of finding answers to the following questions: (1) How open-ended should the procedures be? (2) How should the quality o

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