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Amy L. Brzuz; Julia M. Hawkins-Pokabla; David Prier – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2024
To enter practice as an occupational therapist, one must complete an occupational therapy program at an accredited institution and then pass a national certification exam. This exam is called the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) Exam. Individuals can take the exam more than once to achieve a passing score but must…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Certification, Graduate Students
Taliha Keles – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2024
The aim of the study is to reveal the concurrent validity of the Central Examination of Secondary Education Institutions (OKMS). For this purpose, the relationship between the OKMS subtest raw scores of the students who took the exam and the 8th-grade year-end achievement scores of the courses within the scope of the exam was analyzed by canonical…
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade 8, Secondary School Students, Test Validity
Rachel Louise Stenhouse; Nicola Ingram – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
In this article we make an argument for the importance of embodied cultural capital in the generation of class advantage through private school students' access to Oxbridge. Private schools in England continue to reproduce advantage (Variyan 2019), however, establishing exactly how students are advantaged through private schooling is not…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Advantaged, Social Class, Private Schools
Steven Holtzman; Jonathan Steinberg; Jonathan Weeks; Christopher Robertson; Jessica Findley; David Klieger – ETS Research Report Series, 2024
At a time when institutions of higher education are exploring alternatives to traditional admissions testing, institutions are also seeking to better support students and prepare them for academic success. Under such an engaged model, one may seek to measure not just the accumulated knowledge and skills that students would bring to a new academic…
Descriptors: Law Schools, College Applicants, Legal Education (Professions), College Entrance Examinations
Pierce, David; Johnson, James; Miller, John; Downs, Benjamin – Sport Management Education Journal, 2023
Sport management is a rapidly changing and highly competitive field. With over 200 graduate and over 400 undergraduate degree programs in the United States, faculty are tasked with regular assessment of their program's curriculum to ensure that students graduate with the knowledge, skills, values, and opportunities that make them marketable in a…
Descriptors: Athletics, Business Administration Education, Content Analysis, Graduate Study
Beck, Sarah W.; Godley, Amanda J. – American Journal of Education, 2023
Purpose: This study draws on genre theory to analyze the linguistic and discursive presentation of the self in successful US college application essays. Research Methods: We used qualitative discourse analysis informed by the systemic functional linguistic concepts of field, tenor, and mode to analyze 20 sample application essays identified as…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Admission, Essays, Admission Criteria
Lee, Yoonmi – History of Education, 2023
This study examines the implications of the 'equalisation policy' and the expansion of secondary education in South Korea in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The equalisation policy is one of the most radical school reform attempts in South Korea. A random assignment or lottery system for students was introduced for all middle schools in 1968 and…
Descriptors: Baby Boomers, Equal Education, Educational History, Access to Education
Tapia, Eduardo – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Although previous studies have investigated the contribution of several components of the school choice paradigm to school segregation, one critical aspect has not received attention from segregation scholars: schools' priority rules, that is, the rules schools apply in case of oversubscription. We evaluate how three priority rules -- grade-based,…
Descriptors: School Choice, School Policy, School Segregation, Secondary School Students
Paris, Joseph H.; Beckowski, Catherine Pressimone; Fiorot, Sara – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented number of higher education institutions adopted test-optional admissions policies. The proliferation of these policies and the criticism of standardized admissions tests as unreliable predictors of applicants' postsecondary educational promise have prompted the reimagining of evaluative methodologies in…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Measures (Individuals), College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
Littleton, Rebecca McKnight – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined perceived barriers and benefits to holistic admission review in physical therapist education (PTE) programs. The mixed methods study utilized both quantitative and qualitative data collected via an online survey to accredited programs and collection of quantitative data from program websites, Physical Therapist Centralized…
Descriptors: Physical Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Barriers, Holistic Approach
Brink, Sophia; Rossouw, Mareli – Perspectives in Education, 2021
Stellenbosch University students who graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in Management Accounting or a Bachelor of Commerce in Financial Accounting may convert to a Bachelor of Accounting by completing a conversion year. The purpose of the conversion year is to meet the Bachelor of Accounting Honours admission requirements, which puts students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Accounting, Undergraduate Students
Reimann, Carolin Julia; Schwarz, Judith; Koinzer, Thomas – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: The article deals with competition between primary schools in Berlin. The focus is on the perception of competition and the process of student selection -- despite school law restrictions for primary state schools. The aim is to find out whether and in what way primary school leaders perceive a competitive situation and how they act in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Competition, Public Schools
Al-Rusheidi, Ibtisam Saed – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
This paper assessed the performance of General Foundation Programs (GFPs) in Oman in the area of 'Student Entry and Exit Standards'. Data was collected from the GFP quality audit reports prepared and published by Oman Authority for Academic Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Education (OAAAQA). The study adopted a simple descriptive data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Preparation, Academic Standards, Admission Criteria
Lekhetho, Mapheleba – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
The Lesotho education system is largely ineffective, as evidenced by high failure rates in the school-leaving examinations. The situation is linked to ineffective primary education, due to poor teacher quality, weak school management, and a lack of resources, which have carry-over effects on secondary education. Despite these, some secondary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Achievement, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
Jacobs, Madelon; Leest, Bianca; Huijts, Tim; Meng, Christoph – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
How are students selected for higher education excellence programmes in the Netherlands, and which preferences do selectors have in the selection process? This article answers this question by using a questionnaire including vignettes among fifty selectors of excellence programmes from eighteen institutions, supplemented with in-depth interviews…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Admission Criteria, College Students, Vignettes