Date of Award
Summer 2021
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Education (EdD)
Department
Educational Leadership
First Advisor
Tamara J. Williams
Second Advisor
Elliot Ostler
Abstract
The charge for speech-language pathology graduate admission committees is to identify candidates who will be successful academically and clinically in graduate school, all the while ensuring career readiness. This retrospective study focused on graduate admission criteria and students ‘academic and clinical outcomes, for eighty students that completed the program between 2016-2020. Statistical analysis was used to determine if relationships existed between traditional admission criteria and students’ academic and clinical outcomes. In addition, further analysis was completed to determine if these findings varied by student characteristics including, gender, race/ethnicity, tradition/nontraditional students, undergraduate degree, and undergraduate institution. This study found the objective admission variables, i.e. undergraduate GPA and GRE scores significant correlated with academic outcomes. Specifically, undergraduate GPA (uGPA) correlated to graduate GPA (gGPA) and the GRE scores correlated to Praxis speech-language score. No correlation was found between objective admission criteria and student academic nor clinical outcomes. However, student characteristics did impact students’ academic and clinical outcomes.
Recommended Citation
Kumke, Jill, "An Exploration of the Relationship Between Graduate Admission Criteria and Academic/Clinical Student Outcomes for Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Students" (2021). Educational Leadership Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity. 18.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/edleadstudent/18
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