Emporia State University's (Kansas) teacher education program conducted research to determine how it could help interested students meet new admission standards and enter the teacher education program. Analysis of records of students who had not met the program's new standards indicated that some students were not aware of the new standards and…

Article focused on the women's rush to law school currently underway and the difference between past and present admissions attitudes as well as the influence of feminism on the woman beginning a law career and later securing a position. (RK)

Offers general legal guidelines for extablishing procedures to facilitate minority enrollment in higher education. (EH)

Post-experience education is an important branch of adult education, but it must not obscure the greater and more general purposes of adult education to promote social advancement and individual creativity. (Author/AG)

Presents data concerning the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT): number of MCAT examinations, 1968-73; characteristics of examinee population; comparison of percentages; mean MCAT scores by sex; and mean score by undergraduate major. (Author/PG)

An experiment using business organization and management students was conducted to determine the effects of differences of frequency of testing on the performance of students enrolled under two different admission policies (75 percent or higher high school average and below 75 percent high school average) in an urban community college. (Author/AG)

This paper discusses the Supreme Court's treatment of the issues in Bakke v. Regents of University of California and its implications for admissions programs. Bakke raised two basic issues in his reverse discrimination suit. First, he argued that Davis's medical school admission program was illegal under Title VI. Second, he claimed…

THE PURPOSES OF THE STUDY WERE (1) TO EXAMINE THE SELECTION PROCESS FOR TRAINING, AND (2) TO DELINEATE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSONS WHO WERE SELECTED OR REJECTED OR, THOUGH REGISTERED, NEVER APPLIED FOR TRAINING. A SYSTEMATIC 10 PERCENT SAMPLE, 1,958 PERSONS, OF THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE (ES) POPULATION WAS DRAWN FROM THE ES-511 ACTIVE CARD FILE IN…

THE STUDY TESTED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT COLLEGE STUDENTS WITH A SPECIFIED AVERAGE ACADEMIC APTITUDE (AAA) LEVEL RECEIVED HIGHER GRADES AS ENROLLMENT INCREASED AND ADMISSION STANDARDS WERE LOWERED TO FILL NEW DORMITORIES. AAA WAS COMPUTED FROM AN ENTERING FRESHMAN'S COMBINED SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST (SAT) VERBAL AND QUANTITIVE SCORES. LOCATING…

Scores on the four subtests of the old Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and the six subtests of the new edition (1978) were factor analyzed. Scores were derived from similar groups of applicants. Two-factors, verbal-general information and science-quantitative, known from previous factorial studies of the old MCAT, emerged again. Five of the…

The teacher certification regulations and state standards for teacher education in the state of Montana are set forth in this document. (JD)

Ninety-three research documents are annotated under these classifications: (1) History and Development, (2) Status Studies, (3) Manpower, (4) Curriculum (5) Selection Practices, (6) Guidance, (7) Follow-Up Studies, and (8) Miscellaneous. Each annotation gives the purpose and conclusions from the research studies. Four doctoral theses which are in…

The increasing graduate student enrollment and the growing size of departments have posed some crucial questions about the preservation of quality in graduate education at the University of Iowa's Graduate College. In 1966, the graduate faculty adopted a more selective admissions policy, and ruled that final decisions upon graduate admission be…