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Shannon E. Mahany-Kulinski – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Demands for improved educational outcomes in the PreK-12 system in the United States have resulted in educator preparation programs (EPPs) needing to adapt and revise their programs. External pressures and mandates from state and federal governments, accrediting bodies, and other professional organizations have more recently resulted in the…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Graduate Students, Teacher Education Programs, Student Diversity
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Klieger, David; Bochenek, Jennifer; Ezzo, Chelsea; Holtzman, Steven; Cline, Frederick; Olivera-Aguilar, Margarita – International Journal of Testing, 2022
Consideration of socioemotional skills in admissions potentially can increase representation of racial and ethnic minorities and women in graduate and professional education as well as identify candidates more likely to succeed in graduate and professional school. Research on one such assessment, the ETS Personal Potential Index (PPI), showed that…
Descriptors: College Admission, Graduate Study, Professional Education, Interpersonal Competence
Barnett, Elisabeth A.; Fay, Maggie P.; Liston, Cynthia; Reyna, Ryan – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2022
While there is interest in pathways-aligned high school math reform among secondary education stakeholders, change in high school math depends a great deal on policies, practices, and norms at the higher education level. This report focuses on the role of higher education in influencing (encouraging or deterring) secondary education math reform.…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Higher Education, Secondary School Mathematics, High School Students
Jorden, Pamela – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study analyzed the effect that shifts in the U.S. News & World Report rankings have on input variables such as admitting grade point average (GPA), percentage of students taking the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), average incoming GMAT score, acceptance rate, tuition rates, average student debt, the proportion of students with…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Scores, College Admission, Tuition
Universities UK, 2022
An effective higher education admissions system is key to ensuring the stability of the education sector and commanding public confidence in the ability of universities and colleges to deliver the best outcomes for students. Universities and colleges are autonomous in their admissions processes, but these processes are delivered in line with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Admission, Ethics, College Applicants
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Young, Nicholas T.; Verboncoeur, N.; Lam, Dao Chi; Caballero, Marcos D. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Rubric-based admissions are claimed to help make the graduate admissions process more equitable, possibly helping to address the historical and ongoing inequities in the U.S. physics graduate school admissions process that have often excluded applicants from minoritized races, ethnicities, genders, and backgrounds. Yet, no studies have examined…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Admission Criteria, Equal Education, Graduate Students
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Neutuch, Eric – Journal of College Admission, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has upended schooling and students' college admission journeys. Schools transitioned to remote learning, extracurricular activities vanished into thin air, and in-person visits to colleges were abandoned. The SAT and ACT calendars for the late spring were wiped out and subsequent plans for at-home testing were abandoned.…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Bound Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Faas, Daniel; Foster, Niall; Smith, Aimee – Educational Review, 2020
This is the first empirical study to explore the ways different types of primary school in the Republic of Ireland integrate children from diverse religious backgrounds. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with principals and teachers, the article focuses on the role of ethos and leadership in the integration processes in one denominational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Diversity, Religious Cultural Groups
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Howard, Adam; Pine, Jamie; Muench, Weston; Peck, Sarah – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
The ways in which elite schools in Chile reproduce power and privilege within the nation's highly inequitable schooling system are largely ignored by researchers and the general public. In this article, the authors address this gap by identifying and exploring the primary class strategies that an elite school employs to secure their elite status.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Selective Admission, Power Structure, Social Stratification
Vissing, Yvonne – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
As students compete for college admission, some are tempted by invitations to join honor societies that promise learning opportunities, scholarships, and a leg up in the college admission process. Yvonne Vissing explains how these organization target millions of students each year, encouraging them to purchase "opportunities" that fail…
Descriptors: Honor Societies, College Admission, Deception, National Organizations
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Aburas, Rehab; Nurunnabi, Mohammad – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
The article investigates the relationship between admission exam and students' performance on an interior design program. To achieve the objective of the study, a survey was conducted of 50 students from an interior design program. The performance of these 50 students was tracked from year 1 to year 4 of their degree program. Paired samples…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Interior Design
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Allen, Melissa – College and University, 2019
In 2014, the Florida Board of Governors deemed the University of Florida (UF) the state's flagship institute for online learning; UF Online was born. UF was to offer a portfolio of fully online undergraduate degrees at reduced tuition and fees to increase undergraduate access to the state university system by first-time-in-college and transfer…
Descriptors: Transfer Programs, College Transfer Students, Undergraduate Students, Online Courses
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Adekitan, Aderibigbe Israel; Noma-Osaghae, Etinosa – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
The academic performance of a student in a university is determined by a number of factors, both academic and non-academic. Student that previously excelled at the secondary school level may lose focus due to peer pressure and social lifestyle while those who previously struggled due to family distractions may be able to focus away from home, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Educational Research, Prediction
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Leest, Bianca; Wolbers, Maarten H. J. – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
In this article, we examine how critical thinking and creativity of students, in addition to study results, are related to their chance of being selected for an excellence programme, and whether these student characteristics determine successful completion of their participation in an excellence programme. Between 2016 and 2019, over 1000 students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Critical Thinking, Creativity, Foreign Countries
Glasener, Kristen Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Despite pledges to increase student body diversity, low-income students and Black, Latinx, and Native American students remain grossly underrepresented at elite colleges. To date, most studies exploring stratification in college enrollment patterns have looked at this phenomenon from the student or organizational perspective--examining either…
Descriptors: Colleges, Advantaged, Disproportionate Representation, Student Diversity
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