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Direct linkFikrat-Wevers, S.; Stegers-Jager, K. M.; Afonso, P. M.; Koster, A. S.; Van Gestel, R. A.; Groenier, M.; Ravesloot, J. H.; Wouters, A.; Van Den Broek, W. W.; Woltman, A. M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2023
Student diversity in health professions education (HPE) can be affected by selection procedures. Little is known about how different selection tools impact student diversity across programs using different combinations of traditional and broadened selection criteria. The present multi-site study examined the chances in selection of subgroups of…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Student Diversity, College Admission, Undergraduate Students
Urlings-Strop, Louise C.; Themmen, Axel P. N.; Stegers-Jager, Karen M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Several medical schools include candidates' extracurricular activities in their selection procedure, with promising results regarding their predictive value for achievement during the clinical years of medical school. This study aims to reveal whether the better achievement in clinical training of students selected on the basis of their…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Extracurricular Activities, College Admission, Admission Criteria
Lucieer, Susanna M.; Stegers-Jager, Karen M.; Rikers, Remy M. J. P.; Themmen, Axel P. N. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2016
Medical schools all over the world select applicants using non-cognitive and cognitive criteria. The predictive value of these different types of selection criteria has however never been investigated within the same curriculum while using a control group. We therefore set up a study that enabled us to compare the academic performance of three…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Medical Students, Selective Admission, Admission Criteria
Wouters, A.; Croiset, G.; Schripsema, N. R.; Cohen-Schotanus, J.; Spaai, G. W.; Hulsman, R. L.; Kusurkar, R. A. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Medical schools seek ways to improve their admissions strategies, since the available methods prove to be suboptimal for selecting the best and most motivated students. In this multi-site cross-sectional questionnaire study, we examined the value of (different) selection procedures compared to a weighted lottery procedure, which includes direct…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Medical Students
Steenman, Sebastiaan C.; Bakker, Wieger E.; van Tartwijk, Jan W. F. – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
The first-year grade point average (FYGPA) is the predominant measure of student success in most studies on university admission. Previous cognitive achievements measured with high school grades or standardized tests have been found to be the strongest predictors of FYGPA. For this reason, standardized tests measuring cognitive achievement are…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Grade Point Average, College Freshmen, Grade Prediction
