A 1983 survey reveals that in recent years there has been an increasing trend in England toward admitting more children under statutory age to infant school. The implications for nursery and infant education and for the children are outlined. Statistical tables are included. (CT)

The eighth grade student assignment project, an initiative of the School District of Philadelphia, assigns students to high school academic programs based on student preferences, academic preparation, program capacity, and desegregation requirements. These programs, called small learning communities (SLCs), emphasize areas such as design and…

This paper examines the impact of England's specialist school program on secondary school admissions, discussing the early impact of policies intended to create specialist schools on school composition. Specialist schools are given extra resources to develop best practices in one of four areas of expertise: arts, technology, sports, and language.…

Discusses the pressures on premedical students and the necessity to increase the time and content flexibility of the medical curriculum to facilitate admission of students with diverse backgrounds. (Editor/PG)

Ten specific recommendations regarding the admissions policies and practices of medical schools are presented. Recommendations involve: an applicant's undergraduate major and other courses (the premed major should be abolished), the Medical College Admission Test, the B.A. degree, grades, early admissions, and admissions committees membership.…

"Some currently proposed strategies for educational and employment selection are based on a group-parity concept of fairness towards groups of persons... We suggest that a socially desirable and constitutionally acceptable selection strategy can be fashioned more readily by the formalism of statistical decision theory."

Assesses how accurately psychology undergraduates perceive: (1) the importance of various graduate admission criteria, including minimum grade point averages needed for consideration by graduate programs; (2) the length of time required to complete graduate degrees; and (3) starting salaries at various educational levels. Presents and discusses…

This paper focuses on the system of banding used in England by the former Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) in order to seek to obtain an intake to secondary schools that was balanced in terms of ability. The first part of the paper provides a brief history of the system of banding, how it was informed by verbal reasoning testing and how it…

This guide is intended to help those responsible for choosing health care trainees to develop and improve their selection procedures. Special reference is given to health workers in maternal and child health. Chapter 1 deals with health care policy implications for selection of trainees, the different functions of selection and conflicts that…

Demonstrates that variables that are the basis for admitting students to graduate school must have low correlations with future measures of the success of these students. The question of interest in the admissions procedure is how well the variables evaluate the applicant population rather than the selected students. (GS)

Some suggestions for improving the selection of prospective teachers of young children based on the identification of specific observational characteristics of effective teachers. (CS)

The process of selecting applicants for admission to a new school of medicine (Southern Illinois University School of Medicine) is examined through the use of multivariate regression techniques. More than 250 variables were analyzed and classified as to source of data: student American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS) application,…

The focus of this study was upon students who were academic "risks." The basic definition of "risk" was based on a cutoff of 620 in College Board verbal scholastic aptitude scores. A study was made of the past success of these risks, with the major purpose of finding new variables and methods which would assist admissions officers in the selection…

Open admission s is an important change in the entry procedures to a major social institution. Several variations of open enrollment have been noted: (1) complete universal higher education based on individual desire; (2) universal entry on the basis of particular needs and talents; and (3) admission of a percentage of students under different…