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Direct linkSamuelsson, Johan – Education 3-13, 2023
Historically, the Swedish school system has been designed to level out differences between pupils. There has also been scepticism about assessing pupils. However, new school reforms in Sweden centre on performance and tests. This article focuses on pupils (year 6) in Swedish elite schools and their perceptions of assessment. The pupils are in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Schools, High Achievement, Social Class
de Visser, Marieke; Fluit, Cornelia; Fransen, Jaap; Latijnhouwers, Mieke; Cohen-Schotanus, Janke; Laan, Roland – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
In the Netherlands, students are admitted to medical school through (1) selection, (2) direct access by high pre-university Grade Point Average (pu-GPA), (3) lottery after being rejected in the selection procedure, or (4) lottery. At Radboud University Medical Center, 2010 was the first year we selected applicants. We designed a procedure based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Schools, College Admission, Selective Admission
Download full textUnterman, Rebecca – MDRC, 2017
Success Academy is a rapidly expanding charter school network in New York City, with schools located in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. In the 2016-2017 school year, Success Academy served roughly 14,000 students across 41 elementary, middle, and high schools, which at the time was about 13 percent of the students attending charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Success, Academic Achievement
Neild, Ruth Curran,; Boccanfuso, Christopher; Byrnes, Vaughan – Career and Technical Education Research, 2015
This study presents findings from three cohorts of students--the classes of 2003, 2004, and 2005, in the School District of Philadelphia--that were admitted to the district's career and technical education (CTE) schools through a randomized lottery process. This study takes advantage of this so-called "'natural experiment' to compare high…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Schools, School Districts, Cohort Analysis
