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Meritocratic Reframing of Affirmative Action Policy in a Competitive Higher Education Context: Multicultural Students' Perspectives in South Korea
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Moosung Lee; Namsik Kim – Multicultural Education Review, 2024
This study examines the perceptions of university students from inter-ethnic marriage families (hereafter as multicultural students) on their experiences with affirmative action policy. Ten university multicultural students who entered leading universities through affirmative action amidst the highly competitive higher education entrance exams in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Affirmative Action, College Admission
The Variables That Predict Science Undergraduates' Timely Degree Completion: A Conceptual Model
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Rayner, Gerry; Papakonstantinou, Theo – Research in Science Education, 2023
Science undergraduates' timely degree completion (TDC) has become increasingly important for students themselves, universities, and society, due to issues such as cost, efficiency, and productivity, respectively. This study investigated the potential effect of several variables on TDC of Bachelor of Science (BSc) students at an Australian…
Descriptors: Science Education, Time to Degree, Undergraduate Students, Costs
Modelling Student Dropout Risk Using Survival Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process for an Undergraduate Accounting Program
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Barragán, Sandra; González, Leandro; Calderón, Gloria – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2022
A combination of mathematical and statistical modelling techniques may be used to analyse student dropout behaviour. The aim of this study is to combine Survival Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process methodologies when identifying students at-risk of dropping out. This combination favours the institutional understanding of dropout as a dynamic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences, Age Differences, Decision Making
Oklahoma's Promise Program Performance Review
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Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2018
At the request of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) conducted a review of Oklahoma's Promise program between August 2017 and February 2018. This report summarizes findings and observations from the review and provides recommendations. The review is organized around five areas of interest…
Descriptors: College Programs, State Programs, Educational Finance, Student Financial Aid
Early and Delayed Offers to Under-Represented University Students
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Harvey, Andrew – Australian Journal of Education, 2014
This paper examines the relative merits of early and delayed offer schemes in attracting under-represented students to university. Following the introduction of a demand-driven system and the establishment of national growth and equity targets, Australian universities have increased the number of offers made to students before the release of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Admission, Selective Admission
Using Decision Tree Analysis to Understand Foundation Science Student Performance. Insight Gained at One South African University
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Kirby, Nicola Frances; Dempster, Edith Roslyn – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
The Foundation Programme of the Centre for Science Access at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa provides access to tertiary science studies to educationally disadvantaged students who do not meet formal faculty entrance requirements. The low number of students proceeding from the programme into mainstream is of concern, particularly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Disadvantaged Schools, Regression (Statistics)
Moberly Junior College, the Four-Year Junior College
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Wilson, Kristin Bailey; Ford, Cristi D. – History of Education, 2016
In Leonard Koos's book, "The Junior-College Movement", he described the establishment of a junior college in an American public school district as the "culmination of the local school system", alluding to the prestige associated with having a junior college in a community. The best-known example of this arrangement was in…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, High Schools, Case Studies, College Bound Students