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Understanding the Unsettled Evidence of the Effectiveness of Selective Education in the Value-Added Approach
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Lu, Binwei – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
This study compares the estimated grammar school effect in different regression models, and explains why previous evidence of the effectiveness of grammar school is mixed. Like most studies of school effectiveness evaluation, previous research on grammar school effect usually applies regression to control for confounding between-school factors and…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis
Competing Conceptions of Fair Admission and Their Implications for Supporting Students to Fulfil Their Potential at University
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Boliver, Vikki; Powell, Mandy – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2023
This paper explores how fairness was conceptualised by those responsible for admission to highly selective undergraduate courses at 17 universities in England. Fairness was conceptualised principally with reference to the traditional "meritocratic equality of opportunity" paradigm, which holds that university places should go to the most…
Descriptors: College Admission, Selective Admission, Teaching Methods, Academic Support Services