Weighting admission scores to balance predictiveness-diversity: The Pareto-optimization approach

• Main Authors: LIEVENS, Filip, SACKETT, Paul R., DE CORTE, Wilfried
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Medical school; theoretical study; algorithm; Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research; Medical Education; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6859; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7858/viewcontent/ParetoMed.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Context: Although many medical schools seek to improve diversity, they grapple with the challenge of how to weight the scores of different admission methods to achieve a balance between obtaining high predictiveness and ensuring diversity in the selected student pool. Yet, in large-scale employment...