ERIC Number: EJ1426537
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Jun
Pages: 28
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ISSN: ISSN-0952-8733
EISSN: EISSN-1740-3863
The College Admission Policy Evolution from 2003 to 2020 in China--A Social Network Analysis
Kun Yan; Han Wu; Kaiming Bu; Lingli Wu
Higher Education Policy, v37 n2 p209-236 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, as well as various driving forces that affect the process. The social network analysis methods are adopted to delineate alliance structures formed by actors with different policy beliefs in the policy subsystems which change over time. This study chooses news reports included in the China National knowledge infrastructure (CNKI) database as the data source, and identifies 328 related news reports to be coded in the analysis. This article not only provides the evolution logic of independent enrollment policy, but also bridges the research gap and therefore enriches the broad literature on the application of Advocacy Coalition Framework in Eastern countries.
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Policy Formation, Beliefs, Influences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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