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Peer reviewedCebula, Richard J.; Lopes, Jerry – American Educational Research Journal, 1982
This study suggests that student's choice of undergraduate major depends on various factors. Allowing for recent trends toward accounting and business administration, results indicate that earnings differentials and differences in the rate of change in earnings are among important factors in the student's decision. (Author/LC)
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Decision Making, Degrees (Academic), Employment Opportunities
Download full textTraynham, James G. – 1978
The question of how graduate schools can include race as an admission criteria and give equitable treatment in admissions decisions is addressed by considering some aspects of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores and the use and misuse of test scores in admissions procedures. The GRE is used in admissions procedures to prove an…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
Harward, Lucy E.; Hoetker, James – 1979
Recent court decisions provide legal guidelines for the construction of teacher qualification tests. Such tests have often led to the rejection of a disproportionally large percentage of minority applicants. Boards of education have the right to establish tests and other standards pertaining to teacher employment. It is unlawful, however, for an…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation, Employment Qualifications, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Hartnett, Rodney; Payton, Benjamin F. – 1977
The purpose of this report is to provide information and analysis about the extent to which the experience of a group of minority students who successfully completed the doctorate might be relevant to the issues now under consideration in the Bakke case. The Ford Foundation and Danforth Foundation programs are examined in an attempt to produce…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Access to Education, Achievement Tests
Peer reviewedVeir, Carole – Journal of Educational Administration, 1993
Compares standardized test data normally used to admit students into U.S. graduate administrator preparation programs with additional criteria used at a university attempting to provide more equitable evaluation of minority students. Results show significant differences in the scores of black and Hispanic females on standardized tests, but not on…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Blacks, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Adelman, Clifford – 1997
This monograph traces changes in computer science as a field of study in the college curriculum, and the associated changes in the work force and labor market. The study followed two cohorts of students from high school to age 30. Records for the first cover the period 1972-84; and for the second, the period 1982-93. The purpose of the study was…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Career Education, Cognitive Processes
