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THE ROLE OF INTERVIEWS IN CHOICE OF UNIVERSITY BY PSYCHOLOGY UNDERGRADUATES
Author(s) -
NEWMAN C. V.,
COCHRANE R.,
BLACKMAN D. E.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1977.tb02349.x
Subject(s) - psychology , preference , social psychology , salient , ranking (information retrieval) , applied psychology , statistics , political science , law , mathematics , machine learning , computer science
S ummary . Undergraduate applicants for a university degree course in psychology received conditional offers of places having undergone one of four different introductions to the department ranging from a group open day to a stressful individual interview with two admissions tutors. The prediction that as interviews became more stressful so the acceptance rate of conditional offers would increase was not confirmed. Instead, evidence suggested that an applicant's initial preference ranking of the five universities to which he had applied remained the salient factor influencing his subsequent decisions about accepting offers of places.