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Table 3 Holistic rubric for assessing an applicant profile

From: New non-cognitive procedures for medical applicant selection: a qualitative analysis in one school

Dimension

% of evidence in category

Criteria

 
 

* A profile containing >14.29% evidence in any category will have 1 point (in the 5 point scale rubric). If the category is negative it will have a minus 1 point.

* A profile containing between 10% - 14.28% evidence in any category will have partial points according to the following description:

 

% Evidence in Category

Scale Points

 

14.00 – 14.49

.9

 

13.5 – 13.99

.8

 

13.00 – 13.49

.7

 

12.5 – 12.99

.6

 

12.00 – 12.49

.5

 

11.5 – 11.99

.4

 

11.00 – 11.49

.3

 

10.5 – 10.99

.2

 

10.00 – 10.49

.1

Benchmarks:

A profile will score 1 if it contains >14.29% evidence in any category or has accumulated partial points according to the description on the table above.

 

A profile will score 2 if it contains >14.29% evidence in 2 categories or has accumulated partial points according to the description on the table above.

 

A profile will score 3 if it contains >14.29% evidence in 3 categories or has accumulated partial points according to the description on the table above.

 

A profile will score 4 if it contains >14.29% evidence in 4 categories or has accumulated partial points according to the description on the table above.

 

A profile will score 5 if it contains >14.29% evidence in 5 categories or has accumulated partial points according to the description on the table above.

  1. Note 1: The rubric was built according to a theoretical profile containing the 7 positive attributes that were elicited from the data. 100%: 7 (categories) =14.29.
  2. Note 2: The result of the analysis is a list of themes classified in constructs. Then the numbers and the percentages of the themes on every construct are calculated and demonstrated by a pie. This constitutes an applicant profile.
  3. Note 3: The words written in boldface letters are subtitles and score numbers.
  4. Note 4: “*” is a symbol for a scoring criterion.