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Direct linkDimana T. Kornegay – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The test-optional movement in American college admissions emerged as a response to the challenged notion that standardized tests, such as the SAT and ACT, predict student success. Research has shown that the tests may be discriminatory towards students from disadvantaged racial and ethnic backgrounds. This study examined two cohorts of incoming…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Admission, Educational Policy, Academic Persistence
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Download full textMillett, Catherine M.; Saunders, Stephanie R.; Kevelson, Marisol J. C. – ETS Research Report Series, 2018
An evaluation of the Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP), a college access program for low-income and high-achieving public high school students, yielded favorable findings regarding the perceptions of program alumni. PUPP Alumni Survey respondents (N =126) reported that PUPP had positively impacted their development of academic and…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Low Income Students, High Achievement, High School Students
Stulberg, Lisa M.; Chen, Anthony S. – Sociology of Education, 2014
What explains the rise of race-conscious affirmative action policies in undergraduate admissions? The dominant theory posits that adoption of such policies was precipitated by urban and campus unrest in the North during the late 1960s. Based on primary research in a sample of 17 selective schools, we find limited support for the dominant theory.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Admission, Affirmative Action, Race
Reed, Bernard – Improving College and University Teaching, 1976
An experimental study showed that the present 5-factor formula (high school rank, personality rating, verbal and quantitative scores, and interviews) for admitting teacher education candidates to New Jersey State Colleges remains more effective than a method based largely on the recommendation of the secondary school. (JT)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, Education Majors, Educational Research
Puerto Rican Congress of New Jersey, Trenton. – 1974
In 1973 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, in an effort to improve the delivery of services to Spanish-speaking people in the State of New Jersey, granted monies to the Puerto Rican Congress for the purpose of conducting a Needs Assessment Study in Higher Education. Specifically, the study was to provide information to the Regional…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Administration, College Admission, Community Organizations
