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Kosunen, Sonja; Niemi, Anna-Maija; Laaksonen, Linda Maria – Ethnography and Education, 2022
In this article, we discuss how class and migrant background intersect when students discuss their studies in general upper secondary education and their aspirations in university admission. We focus on the discussed social inequalities in student admission to one of the elite fields, medicine, in eight ethnographic interviews with students and…
Descriptors: Social Class, Migrants, Social Capital, Cultural Capital
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Mantai, Lilia; Marrone, Mauricio – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Despite an increasingly competitive academic market, more and more people are seeking a PhD degree. While significant research focuses on skill attainment during PhD candidature and at PhD exit, we know little about the skills that might be present at PhD entry. We developed a data-driven taxonomy and conducted logistic regressions to analyse…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Degrees, Foreign Countries, College Admission
Michelson, Elena M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study was conducted to determine which admission criteria are most commonly utilized in selecting students into sonography programs, and whether a relationship exists between admission criteria and academic success in sonography education. All program directors from CAAHEP-accredited or CAAHEP-accreditation seeking sonography programs were…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Sibanda, Gladys Mankoana; Beckmann, Johan L. – South African Journal of Education, 2021
In this article we report on a qualitative study done in Pretoria, South Africa, in which we investigated the experiences of 2 representatives of the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE); School Governing Body (SGB) spokespersons from 4 schools located in the Gauteng province, 2 representatives of the Federation of SGBs, 4 principals from 4…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Admission (School), School Policy, Elementary Schools
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Pienimaa, Anne; Talman, Kirsi; Haavisto, Elina – Educational Research, 2021
Background: Effective student selection methods are needed to identify applicants who are expected to complete their studies and succeed professionally. The assessment of emotional intelligence has recently been identified as an important element of student selection for nursing studies. Purpose: This small-scale study, conducted in Finland,…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Social Work, Professional Education, Allied Health Occupations Education
Chlebowski, Arthur L.; McWilliams, Joshua D.; Hawkins, William C.; El Tawil, Stephanie – Metropolitan Universities, 2021
The Technology Commercialization Academy (TCA) was launched to promote the identification, assessment, and exploitation of economically viable innovations by undergraduates and retain those graduates in the southwest Indiana region. Further, as part of the I-69 Innovation Corridor initiative, the TCA was part of increasing the regional Innovation…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Job Skills
Kristen Marie Winter – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study is to examine impacts of non-cognitive measures in the college admissions process on the retention of academically at-risk student populations. Increasing access to higher education is of benefit to individual and society as a whole. Traditional college admissions practices use standardized testing and GPA, which have…
Descriptors: College Students, Admission Criteria, Academic Standards, Grade Point Average
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Lyndon Huling; Cynthia Sommer; Ira Young – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2024
Today, we revisit our initial stance of eliminating standardized test scores from the college admissions process to improve equity and student diversity. With refreshed data about test-optional admissions, we address the import of institutional responsiveness to redress persistent equity gaps that impact our state's workforce diversity and hiring…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, Access to Education, Equal Education
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OiYan Poon; Douglas H. Lee; Eileen Galvez; Joanne Song Engler; Bri Sérráno; Ali Raza; Jessica M. Hurtado; Nikki Kahealani Chun – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
This study focuses on how admissions at selective colleges and universities represent key racialized organizations. We analyzed data from 50 individual interviews of admissions professionals, through a theory of racialized organizations to recognize admissions as practices that consistently reproduces systemic inequities. We reveal how…
Descriptors: Colleges, Universities, College Admission, Selective Admission
John Jeffrey McCann Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Magnet schools have been a main tool or innovation in urban education settings in the United States, originating in the early 1970's and expanding into most large urban districts today (Blank, 1989). While some magnet schools do not rely on a specific criterion to determine entry, many do. This study focuses on such a setting where students must…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Magnet Schools, Urban Schools, Screening Tests
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Ranwala, Lakshmi; Siriwardena, Sampath; Edirisinghe, Lalith; Kurukulaarachchi, Veronica; Wijesinghe, Dimali – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2023
Paradigm shift is a significant modification of the core assumptions and methods of experimentation in a scientific discipline. The field of education, at all levels, has undergone tremendous change recently, precipitated by extraordinary demand for high quality and meaningful sustainable education at all levels across the globe. The national…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, College Attendance
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Michael N. Bastedo; Mark Umbricht; Emma Bausch; Bo-Kyung Byun; Yiping Bai – AERA Open, 2023
Holistic admissions practices require evaluating an applicant's credentials in light of the opportunities available in their high school context. High school grades, test scores, and course taking are clearly related to college grades, retention, and graduation. But does performance in high school context also relate to college success? Building a…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Admission, Admission Criteria, College Bound Students
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 2023
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is required to submit this report to the Legislature regarding the status of existing charter schools, the number of petitions for new charter schools, and the action taken by school boards and DPI on petitions for new charter schools (see Wis. Stat. §115.28 (49)). This report offers the results…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Charter Schools, School Districts, Grants
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Carmichael, Christine M.; Mandulak, Kerry Callahan; Watkins, Diana – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce the interview as a complementary component to the holistic process for graduate admissions. To do so, procedural details of two master's degree programs in speech-language pathology are provided that successfully execute two different but effective interview methods for speech-language…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, College Admission, Masters Programs
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Madsen, Miriam – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
Much contemporary scholarship claims that competition has become a key characteristic of educational governance, and that competition occurs in educational governance as a consequence of the comparative turn in education. This article problematizes the widespread application of the concept of competition as a relevant term across (seemingly) all…
Descriptors: Competition, Governance, Decision Making, Comparative Education
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