NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 106 to 120 of 2,030 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Guzmán-Valenzuela, Carolina – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Latin American universities have been subject to old and new forms of colonialism that act concurrently. Old forms of colonialism are based on a matrix of race and labour divisions that universities have inherited, reproduced, and reinforced. New forms of colonialism are attaching to global forces that promote a world class university model based…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Colonialism, Universities, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Park, Julie J.; Zheng, Jia; Kim, Brian H. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
Many institutions adopted test-optional policies during the COVID-19 pandemic, meaning that nonstandardized parts of the application may play a more influential role in admissions. Our research team examined extracurricular activities reporting in more than six million applications submitted from the Common Application dataset and found that…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Extracurricular Activities, Racial Differences
Backes, Ben; Cowan, James; Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
This paper examines how different measures of teacher quality are related to students' long-run educational trajectories. We estimate teachers' "test-based" and "nontest" value-added (the latter based on contributions to student absences, suspensions, grade progression, and grades) and assess how these predict various student…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Learning Trajectories
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Schmidt, Peter; Strohl, Jeff – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2023
If the Supreme Court bans race-conscious affirmative action, as expected, selective higher education institutions almost certainly will become less diverse, reducing the rates of degree attainment among students from historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups. "Race, Elite College Admissions, and the Courts: The Pursuit of Racial…
Descriptors: College Admission, Selective Admission, Equal Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jennifer Feldman; Jennifer Wallace – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
This article investigates the awarding of scholarships to students from historically disadvantaged communities to attend elite schools in South Africa. Specifically, the article analyses the narrated accounts of former scholarship recipients who reflect on their experiences of entering an elite secondary school as scholarship students. Using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Scholarships, Disadvantaged Environment
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Stubbs, Joshua E.; Murphy, Emily C. – Higher Education Quarterly, 2020
Amid concerns about the skewed socio-demographic composition of England's elite universities, this study sought to better understand what undergraduates from under-represented backgrounds found supportive in the process of them gaining an offer of admission from a prestigious university, and their social and academic experience of higher…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Student Experience, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
Bleemer, Zachary – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2021
I study the efficacy of test-based meritocracy in college admissions by evaluating the impact of a grade-based "top percent'' policy implemented by the University of California. Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC) provided large admission advantages to the top four percent of 2001-2011 graduates from each California high school. I…
Descriptors: Universities, College Admission, College Applicants, Eligibility
Michael T. Albano – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Higher education in the United States has evolved to expand its reach to various diverse student populations. The student cohort in higher education that has seen exponential growth over the past few decades at elite liberal arts colleges are students who served in the military. Veteran students can contribute greatly to communities of elite…
Descriptors: College Students, Veterans, Liberal Arts, Group Membership
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dalia Halabi; Avihu Shoshana – Educational Review, 2024
This article explores elite high school identities among Palestinian youth in Israel, a stigmatised national ethnic minority. Two research questions guide this study: how do high school students in an elite school perceive and encounter their identity and how does their elitism interact with their identity as members of a stigmatised national…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Arabs
Kelly Rosinger; Dominique J. Baker; Joseph Sturm; Wan Yu; Julie J. Park; OiYan Poon; Brian Heseung Kim; Stephanie Breen – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Most selective colleges implemented test-optional admissions during the pandemic, making college entrance exam scores optional for applicants. We draw on descriptive, two-way fixed effects, and event study methods to examine variation in test-optional implementation during the pandemic and how implementation relates to selectivity and enrollment.…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, College Admission, Institutional Characteristics, College Entrance Examinations
Grossman, Joshua; Tomkins, Sabina; Page, Lindsay C.; Goel, Sharad – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
There is debate over whether Asian American students are admitted to selective colleges and universities at lower rates than white students with similar academic qualifications. However, there have been few empirical investigations of this issue, in large part due to a dearth of data. Here we present the results from analyzing 685,709 applications…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Applicants, College Admission, Admission Criteria
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lu, Binwei – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
This study compares the estimated grammar school effect in different regression models, and explains why previous evidence of the effectiveness of grammar school is mixed. Like most studies of school effectiveness evaluation, previous research on grammar school effect usually applies regression to control for confounding between-school factors and…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Stentiford, Lauren; Koutsouris, George; Allan, Alexandra – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
Research has long demonstrated the exclusion and Othering experienced by young people with disabilities in education. This paper presents findings from an ethnographic study conducted in an 'elite' sixth-form college in England, set against the backdrop of a shifting social, political, and cultural landscape, where neo-liberal discourses of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Competitive Selection, Institutional Characteristics
Bauer, Nathan E. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A number of studies have examined the impact of changes in price on students' enrollment decisions at the undergraduate level, but little is known about the price responsiveness of graduate and professional students. This dissertation utilizes difference-in-differences and regression-discontinuity methods to analyze student-level data for admitted…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Decision Making, Student Financial Aid, Enrollment
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gross, Nora; Jacobs, Charlotte E.; Marar, Rekha; Lewis, Adam – Whiteness and Education, 2023
As U.S. elite independent schools become more racially inclusive, white students may perceive a shift in their social position. Using qualitative data from school climate surveys at 10 such schools, 2014-2018, we explore how white adolescent boys experience these shifts emotionally. We find that a subset of particularly vocal white boys express…
Descriptors: Whites, Males, Adolescents, Private Schools
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  ...  |  136