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Abstract\n\nEleven Canadian research granting agencies were surveyed concerning theweights that they apply to various criteria when reviewing applications forgraduate student awards.Nine agencies responded,seven providing useful data.The undergraduate academic grades of applicants for research training awardswere found to carry high weight in selection decisions,especially incompetitions that were either large or were open to students at the master'slevel.However,the literature on early career indicators suggests that theundergraduate academic achievement of graduate students is not an effectivepredictor of their future research productivity.Strategies through whichagencies might improve the use of more predictive criteria,such as applicantcharacteristics and quality of the graduate training environment,are discussed.  \n## Résumé\n\nOnze organisations subventionnaires canadiennes ont fait I'objet d'une enqueteconcernant le poids qu'elles attribuent à divers criteres dans leur évaluation dedemandes de bourses.Neuf questionnaires ont été retournés;sept ďentre euxont pu etre utilisés.Les notes de premier cycle obtenues par les candidats debourses de recherche revetaient une grande importance dans les décisions,surtout dans les concours ouverts aux étudiants de deuxieme cycle.Cependant,la littérature sur les indicateurs précoces d'une carriere scientifique suggéreque les notes de premier cycle obtenues par les étudiants gradués ne sont pasun bon indicateur de leur productivité future en recherche.Les stratégiessusceptibles d'augmenter I'utilisation des criteres plus fiables,comme lescaracteristiques des candidats et la qualité de leur environnement de recherche,sont discutees dans cet article.  \n## Introduction\n\nResearch scholarships provide graduate students with both financial support andsocietal recognition of the importance of their work and are vital to thedevelopment of a national cadre of highly qualified research personnel.For47%of Ph.D.graduates holding appointments in health science faculties,research scholarships were the principal source of support during graduate study(MRC,1988a).The importance of graduate research scholarships in thedevelopment of a nation-wide research capability justifies careful examinationof the criteria by which they are awarded.This study presents information onthe weightings that granting agencies assign to various selection criteria anddiscusses the appropriateness of those weightings given the theoreticalpredictive strength of each criterion.  \nCriteria often used in the selection of graduate student award winners includethe undergraduate academic grades of applicants,assessments by sponsors,thequality of the proposed graduate research project and training environment,andthe applicants'traits and research experience.The validity of some of thesecriteria is questionable.The correlation between the undergraduate academicgrades of graduate students and their eventual research productivity is very low(Clark and Centra,1982;O'Brecht,Pihl and Bois,1989).While students withhigh grades may be more likely to obtain admission to prestigious universities,and graduates of prestigious universities may be more likely to end up in careerswhere research is a major activity,the link between undergraduate academicperformance and career productivity is tenuous at best.Since the range ofundergraduate grades in a graduate student population is very narrow,essentially restricted to A and B records,it is not surprising that grades are apoor discriminator of research potential in an applicant pool comprised ofgraduate students.Sponsors'assessments of applicants for graduate awards alsoappear to be poor predictors of the level of post-training research activity.Thisis possibly because sponsors'assessments are highly correlated with applicant'sundergraduate academic performance(Davis,1965;O'Brecht,et al.,1989).T","cbCaitZqrkkpu2G8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitZqrkkpu2G8","pdf",426468,12,"English","# Abstract\n# Résumé\n# Introduction\n## Selection criteria used for awards\n## Limits of undergraduate grades and sponsor assessments\n## Relevance of research proposal quality\n## Role of training environment and personality traits","[{\"question\":\"What selection criteria do agencies commonly use for graduate research scholarships?\",\"answer\":\"The study lists undergraduate academic grades, sponsor assessments, the quality of the proposed graduate research project and training environment, and applicants’ traits and research experience as frequently used criteria.\"},{\"question\":\"Why may undergraduate grades be a weak predictor of future research productivity?\",\"answer\":\"The document explains that the correlation between undergraduate grades and eventual research productivity is very low, and graduate-student grade ranges are narrow, limiting grades as a discriminator.\"},{\"question\":\"Which other criteria does the study discuss as potentially more 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