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AND NAGAP  \nWhat’s Now and What’s Next in Graduate Admissions Policies  \nResults From the  \nETS/NAGAP 2022 Admissions Survey  \nSara Haviland, Joseph Paris, Reginald Gooch, and Jose Sotelo  \n1  \nGraduate admissions processes have undergone historic and unprecedented shifts in the COVID-19 era with the rapid expansion of test-optional admissions policies and holistic review practices. Given the early testing center closures and general uncertainties, the COVID-19 crisis led many schools to adopt test-optional graduate admissions policies, where standardized admissions tests were not required for admission but would be considered if submitted by the applicants. Some programs shifted to test-free graduate admissions policies, where the test was not required and would not be considered at all if submitted.  \nIn partnership with NAGAP, the Association for Graduate Enrollment Management, ETS conducted research to better understand how these seismic shifts in admissions policies affect the graduate admissions process and its stakeholders. Our research explicates the goals of these policies, the admissions decision-making strategies implemented by institutions and graduate programs with testoptional and test-free policies, and the experiences of graduate admissions officers and academic department leaders working under these policies.  \nThis work began in the summer of 2021 with a pulse survey regarding the extent and nature of test-optional and test-free policies first reported in Haviland et al. (2022) . A follow-up survey in Fall 2022 further explored these themes as the pandemic was beginning to shift toward an endemic phase.  \n2  \nThe ETS-NAGAP 2022 Graduate Admissions Survey  \nWe extended direct email invitations to 1,387 NAGAP members in September 2022, inviting them to complete the ETS-NAGAP 2022 Graduate Admissions Survey. A total of 167 members completed at least 50% of the survey questions for a response rate of 12%;1 participants were not forced to answer questions they were not comfortable answering. Responses to all answers were collected electronically. Respondents were presented with 15–23 questions tailored to their  \nrole in graduate enrollment management (e.g., within an academic department or within an institution-wide admissions office) as well as an invitation to participate in future interviews.  \nRespondents’ institutions represented a diversity of enrollment sizes (see Figure 1), though most worked in large or medium institutions. Of our sample,  \n45 participants did not provide the name of the  \nFIGURE 1: Enrollment size of NAGAP 2022 respondents’ institutions (N = 167)  \n3  \ninstitution where they work. From the 122 participants who reported their institution, we collected data from 113 distinct institutions. Of the institutions that had multiple respondents, all were classified as a large institution with an enrollment of more than 10,000 students total. We limited our sample to a maximum of three participants reported from any one institution.  \nRespondents worked in a variety of positions within their institutions (see Table 1). Approximately 29% of respondents worked for an academic school or college within their institution, while 21% worked for an institution-wide graduate admissions office.  \nFrom these different positions across campus, respondents performed a range of roles within the graduate admissions process (see Figure 2) . Participants could select all the roles that applied to their participation in the admissions process. Most participants were involved in student recruitment (84%) and in the oversight of the admissions process (83%); fewer participants were involved in making scholarship or fellowship recommendations (34%) or making final admissions decisions (33%), which typically are the responsibility of the academic departments in which graduate programs are housed.  \nTABLE 1: Frequency of work units listed by admissions officers  \n\n| WORK UNIT ","cbCaioX1BFbgaAu7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioX1BFbgaAu7","pdf",5975536,17,"English","# The ETS/NAGAP 2022 Admissions Survey\n## Survey design and respondent profile\n## Use of admissions tests under different policies\n## Motivations and implications of test-optional approaches","[{\"question\":\"What policy shifts does the report focus on in graduate admissions?\",\"answer\":\"The report focuses on the rapid growth of test-optional admissions policies and the development of test-free policies during the COVID-19 era.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the ETS/NAGAP 2022 Admissions Survey conducted?\",\"answer\":\"ETS sent direct email invitations to 1,387 NAGAP members in September 2022, and 167 members completed at least 50% of the survey questions.\"},{\"question\":\"In what ways are admissions tests still used when test-optional policies are in place?\",\"answer\":\"Standardized tests are often considered but not required for many programs, and some institutions use tests for particular applicants or recommend and consider tests in most programs.\"}]","Research Notes - ETS/NAGAP 2022 Admissions Survey Results - What’s Now and What’s Next in Graduate Admissions Policies | PDF",1792049331,43]