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Radasanu, Andrea; Barker, Gregory – Honors in Practice, 2022
This study continues an earlier (2021) examination of a program's move from an admissions framework that used standardized test score thresholds to a test-blind holistic review. While the initial study evinced holistic review as a more equitable gateway to honors education for students from underserved backgrounds (as compared to admission…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Holistic Approach, College Admission, Admission Criteria
Geiser, Saul – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Eligibility is a policy construct unique to California. UC and CSU are the only US universities that distinguish between eligibility for admission and admission itself and set separate requirements for each. The eligibility construct derives originally from California's 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education, which famously mandated that UC admit…
Descriptors: State Colleges, College Admission, Eligibility, High School Graduates
Rizvi, Adeel Haider – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Background: Student success is the foundation for maintaining programmatic accreditation in all healthcare education programs. There is limited research on admissions criteria and predictors of success in physical therapist assistant education. The goal of this study was to understand the relationship between admissions criteria and student…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Physical Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Predictor Variables
Gorgorió, Núria; Albarracín, Lluís; Laine, Anu; Llinares, Salvador – LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This perspective paper draws on the interest in ensuring that students who enter primary teacher training programs have a solid background knowledge of mathematics. We describe the access criteria and requirements for admission to the primary education degree programs at the Universidad de Alicante and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, in Spain,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary Education
Robles, Silvia; Gross, Max; Fairlie, Robert W. – Grantee Submission, 2021
One frequently cited yet understudied channel through which funding levels impact college students is course availability--colleges are often forced to respond to budgetary pressure by reducing course offerings. We provide the first causal evidence on this mechanism at a community college, using administrative course registration data and a novel…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community College Students, Community Colleges, College Admission
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 2021
Today, colleges and universities use overt admissions preferences to create student bodies that reflect the ethnic, racial, or gender demographics of the population--at the expense of academic merit and preparedness. While the original aim of the policy was to end discrimination and promote fairness, it has led to unequal treatment on the basis of…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Equal Education, Preferences
McCullough, Moira; Ochoa, Lindsay; Tuttle, Christina – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2021
A key goal of many magnet programs is to improve student diversity in schools. This snapshot describes efforts by those participating in the U.S. Department of Education's Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP). Findings are based on surveys completed by most of the more than 160 schools recently funded by MSAP grants and interviews with their…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, Student Recruitment, Admission (School), Student Diversity
Annie Phoenix – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In this dissertation, I analyze the development and dissemination of state-level policies to prohibit colleges from considering criminal history for purposes of admissions otherwise known as ban the box in higher education. This research engages with practical and instructive questions of how individuals or coalitions can learn from other policy…
Descriptors: College Admission, Criminals, Stakeholders, Legislation
Joseph H. Paris; Jake D. Winfield – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2024
Holistic review is widely practiced in graduate admissions. However, despite its prevalence, there is a need to understand how practitioners approach holistic graduate admissions, how its practice relates to institutional priorities, and its potential implications for equitable access to graduate education. This exploratory mixed method study…
Descriptors: College Admission, Graduate Study, Graduate Students, Admission Criteria
Robert O. Vos; Susan H. Kamei – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
Master of Science (M.S.) programs, including geography through geographic information science and technology (M.S. GIST), play a key part in training the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce. A master's thesis has been a traditional part of geography programs, and across all kinds of disciplines the value of a thesis is…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Masters Programs, Geographic Information Systems, Masters Theses
Admission into Graduate Programmes of English Language Education: A Critical Comparative Exploration
Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini; Mojgan Afifezadeh; Leila Tajik – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2024
This paper investigates admission procedures of Master of Arts programs of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (MA TEFL) in Iran in comparison with universities around the world. Along with a view of the centralised national MA TEFL entrance exam held in Iran during the past three decades, we investigated admission requirements for comparable…
Descriptors: College Admission, Graduate Students, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Donald Wittman – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
I study student characteristics and academic performance at the University of California, where consideration of an applicant's ethnicity has been banned since 1996 and SAT scores were used in admitting students to the university until fall 2021. I show the following: (1) SAT scores were more important than high school grades in predicting…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Admission Criteria, Grade Point Average, Disproportionate Representation
McDuffie, Amy Roth; Slavit, David; Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy; Griggs, Nicole – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
This study investigated the underexplored topic of teacher preparation program admissions processes by interviewing faculty and analyzing program documents. We investigated how 31 K-12 "mathematics and science" teacher preparation programs (MSTPPs) and faculty attend to diversity, equity, inclusion, and social and racial justice (DEIJ).…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Preservice Teacher Education, College Admission, Elementary Secondary Education
Jha, Harsh Kumar; Wharton, Robyn – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Higher education and elite professional occupations are considered to be key sources of social mobility. In this paper, we suggest that examining patterns of admission into professional undergraduate programmes, a key route for entry into elite professional occupations, may provide important insights into social mobility through higher education.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Social Mobility, Intersectionality, Social Class
Prieto, Lydia M.; Aguero-Valverde, Jonathan; Flacke, Johannes; van Maarseveen, Martin – Journal of School Choice, 2023
Schools' priorities in student selection constitute the basis for fairness in school admissions. We study the case where schools are active strategic players that rank their applicants in terms of priorities. A methodological framework is developed to examine the impact of the variation in the admission settings on the equality of opportunity in…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, Equal Education, Educational Quality