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Direct linkShulruf, Boaz; Shaw, John – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
The introduction of a new standards-based secondary school assessment system, the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), necessitated significant changes to the admissions processes for New Zealand universities, particularly for competitive-entry programmes such as medicine, engineering and pharmacy. Selection to such programmes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Undergraduate Study
Turner, Rolf; Shulruf, Boaz; Li, Meisong; Yuan, Johnson – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2012
University entrance criteria can be a contentious topic, particularly in respect of equity. In this paper we discuss studies which demonstrate that revisions of entrance criteria which are designed with no explicit reference to equity issues can have a surprisingly positive impact on the fractions of disadvantaged subgroups admitted. We…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Statistical Significance, Foreign Countries, Equal Education
Download full textComer, Keith; Broght, Erik; Sampson, Kaylene – Journal of Institutional Research, 2011
Building on Shulruf, Hattie and Tumen (2008), this work examines the capacity of various National Certificate in Educational Achievement (NCEA)-derived models to predict first-year performance in Biological Sciences at a New Zealand university. We compared three models: (1) the "best-80" indicator as used by several New Zealand…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Biology, Secondary School Science, National Competency Tests
