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Kun Yan; Han Wu; Kaiming Bu; Lingli Wu – Higher Education Policy, 2024
To date, no empirical study has focused on understanding the evolution process of China's college admission policies and clarifying its hidden evolution logic. Based on the advocacy coalition framework (ACF), this study determines different advocacy coalitions and their belief systems during the evolution process of independent enrollment policy,…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
K. Talman; J. Vierula; T. Karihtala; E. Laakkonen; J. Engblom; E. Haavisto – Higher Education Quarterly, 2025
Higher education institutions need to develop valid, fair, and objective selection methods. Current literature reporting the development and validation of new national large-scale selection tests is scarce. This two-phased study aimed to (1) develop and (2) evaluate the validity of the Finnish digital Universities of Applied Sciences Entrance…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Test Construction, Test Validity, Computer Assisted Testing
Jason Jabbari; Yung Chun; Wenrui Huang; Stephen Roll – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
We conduct an impact analysis on a unique technology certificate and apprenticeship program offered by LaunchCode. We merge administrative data containing entrance exam scores with survey data for individuals that were (a) not accepted, (b) accepted but did not complete the course, (c) completed the course but not the apprenticeship, and (d)…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, STEM Education, Apprenticeships, Social Mobility
Robert Kim – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
In June 2023, the Supreme Court held that the admissions systems at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Harvard University were racially discriminatory, effectively ending affirmative action. Are race-neutral admissions policies at selective K-12 schools next? Bob Kim considers two circuit court cases -- "Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Race, Diversity, Court Litigation
Sarah Cohodes; Astrid Marie Jorde Sandsør; Siv-Elisabeth Skjelbred – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Admission systems play a critical role in shaping educational opportunities by determining what choices are available to whom. Policy makers and institutions must balance multiple, often conflicting, goals which requires trade-offs between competing values. In this paper, we present core values for admission to higher education alongside a novel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Admissions Officers
António Oliveira; Gary E. McPherson; Luísa Mota Ribeiro; Patrícia Oliveira-Silva – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
Admission procedures to elementary school in Music Conservatoires in Portugal consist in the assessment of aural aptitude. This investigation aims at assessing the power of aural aptitude at predicting future musical achievement as well as the assessment of two other variables for the same purpose: motivation and intentions of parental support.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Young Children, Parents
Rodney Scott McGinnes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Sullivan Report (The Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce, 2004) identified the lack of racial diversity among health care practitioners as a major issue. This report points out that, while the U.S. population has continued to become more diverse, the composition of health care workers has not kept pace with these…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Allied Health Occupations Education, College Programs, Evaluation Methods
Fariha Khalil – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative phenomenological research employed purposive sampling to delve into the educational concept of equity disparity stemming from college readiness programs. The study specifically targeted teachers and administrators who possessed firsthand experience with the phenomenon of inequity observed among students achieving success within…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Admission Criteria, Student Participation, Equal Education
Trevethan, Helen – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
I offer this critical essay as a reminder of the prevalence of unproven negative dialogue about Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in New Zealand, taking selection practices as an example. The focus of this critical essay is the evidence base about selection of students into English-medium undergraduate ITE programmes. In New Zealand and elsewhere,…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries
Alejandra Miranda; Tim Gill – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2025
This report is focused on the uptake of General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) subjects in England in 2023. Uptake in a GCSE subject is defined as the number or percentage of students at the end of Key Stage 4 (KS4) taking the subject. This report was produced using publicly available data from the Department for Education's (DfE). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Exit Examinations, Data Analysis
Emily H. Rhineberger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Graduate enrollment management (GEM) is a relatively new organizational concept and discipline. As an emerging profession, a common body of knowledge to structure and regulate the profession is critical to its professionalization. Identifying competencies is one method to create that knowledge and is a well-established method of measuring a…
Descriptors: College Administration, Graduate Study, Enrollment Management, Dentistry
Kwaku A. Kankam – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Researchers have extensively investigated the quantitative relationship between various admissions requirements and their predictive capability for academic success in DPT programs; however, limited investigators have examined the perceptions of these requirements by admissions faculty. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the…
Descriptors: Physical Therapy, Doctoral Programs, Admissions Officers, Admission Criteria
Reginald M. Gooch; Vinetha K. Belur; Sara B. Haviland; Ou Lydia Liu – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
Many institutions were forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to change admissions policies as a response to logistical challenges around testing. However, even as logistical challenges have resolved, pandemic-era changes to higher education testing policies which reduced or eliminated testing requirements have remained in place in many schools. Now,…
Descriptors: College Admission, Access to Education, College Entrance Examinations, Equal Education
Joanne Hughes; Rebecca Loader – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Northern Ireland has a deeply divided education system with demarcation most notable along ethno/religious and social class lines. The former is largely attributable to the historical organisation of the schools estate based on religion, and the latter is associated with a system of academic selection that filters children into grammar and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Admission Criteria, Elementary School Students, Equal Education
Baru Aboma Totoba – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2024
The mainpurpose of this study was to determine the relationship between undergraduate students' admission practices and their academic performance. The participants of this study were 233 undergraduate students who wereintheir first and third-year studies as well as two MaddaWalabu UniversityProfessors. A mixed Research method was employed to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Universities