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Direct linkMeeter, Martijn – Educational Assessment, 2023
The transition from secondary to tertiary education varies from country to country. In many countries, secondary school is concluded with high-stakes, national exams, or high-stakes entry tests are used for admissions to tertiary education. In other countries, secondary-school grade point average (GPA) is the determining factor. In the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Grade Point Average, College Freshmen
Fikrat-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
Fong, Carlton J.; Gonzales, Cassandra; Hill-Troglin Cox, Christie; Shinn, Holly B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Nearly all college students require some academic assistance throughout their learning experiences. Rather than a dependent act, help-seeking is a self-regulated and motivated strategy; however, there are mixed findings regarding the relationship between academic help-seeking and academic achievement. Thus, the current study used meta-analytic…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Academic Achievement, Postsecondary Education, College Students
Yocarini, Iris E.; Bouwmeester, Samantha; Smeets, Guus; Arends, Lidia R. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2020
In this study, the consequences of allowing course compensation in a higher education academic dismissal policy are evaluated by examining performance on a second-year follow-up (i.e. sequel) course that builds on material from a first-year precursor course. Up to now, differences in the consequences of compensation on student performance across…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students, College Curriculum
de Visser, Marieke; Fluit, Cornelia; Fransen, Jaap; Latijnhouwers, Mieke; Cohen-Schotanus, Janke; Laan, Roland – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
In the Netherlands, students are admitted to medical school through (1) selection, (2) direct access by high pre-university Grade Point Average (pu-GPA), (3) lottery after being rejected in the selection procedure, or (4) lottery. At Radboud University Medical Center, 2010 was the first year we selected applicants. We designed a procedure based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Schools, College Admission, Selective Admission
Day, Indira N. Z.; van Blankenstein, Floris M.; Westenberg, P. Michiel; Admiraal, Wilfried F. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Individual student success is influenced by the educational environment and student characteristics. One adaptation of the educational environment to improve student success is the introduction of continuous, or in-course, assessment. Previous research already identified several student characteristics that are related to student success as…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Statistical Analysis, Academic Achievement, Questionnaires
Hustinx, Paul W. J.; Kuyper, Hans; van der Werf, Margaretha P. C.; Dijkstra, Pieternel – Educational Psychology, 2009
During recent decades, the classical one-dimensional concept of achievement motivation has become less popular among motivation researchers. This study aims to revive the concept by demonstrating its predictive power using longitudinal data from two cohort samples, each with 20,000 Dutch secondary school students. Two measures of achievement…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Achievement Need, Student Motivation, Secondary School Students
