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Download full textShushok, Frank – 2001
In reaction to the "Hopwood v. Texas" decision, which declared the use of race in college admissions illegal, Texas created a percentage plan that guaranteed admission to students who graduate within a specified percentile of their high school class. Under the Texas plan, any student graduating in the top 10% of his or her high school…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Class Rank, College Admission, Court Litigation
Peer reviewedEspenshade, Thomas J.; Hale, Lauren E.; Chung, Chang Y. – Sociology of Education, 2005
In this article, the authors test a "frog-pond" model of elite college admission proposed by Attewell, operationalizing high school academic context as the secondary school-average SAT score and number of Advanced Placement tests per high school senior. Data on more than 45,000 applications to three elite universities show that a high…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, High Schools, Educational Environment, Class Rank
Healy, Patrick – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1998
A 1997 Texas law requires universities to admit the top 10% percent of seniors from each Texas high school, opening a door for many Hispanic and Black seniors in schools with high minority populations. Observers are concerned some students may be underprepared for university work. Elite public universities around the country are watching to see if…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, Class Rank, College Admission
Peer reviewedZimmerman, Allen – Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2000
Describes a journal-based orientation course at a small, public two-year technical college. Reports on a study of 160 students which found that the orientation-course grade was a better predictor of student success (as measured by timely graduation and grade point average) than high school rank and far superior to the American College Testing…
Descriptors: Class Rank, College Freshmen, Grade Point Average, Grade Prediction
Morgan, Beverly D. – 1992
The relationship between scores on the American College Test (ACT) and grade point averages of first-time college freshmen after the first year of study was investigated by correlating ACT composite scores and grade point averages (GPAs). ACT scores and GPAs were obtained for 100 first-time freshmen at an urban state university in Illinois. There…
Descriptors: Class Rank, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen
Peer reviewedSchmidt, Charles P. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1995
Presents the results of a study where students rated audiotape excerpts of vocal instruction that featured teacher approval or disapproval behavior. Correlated this information with the students' grade level, gender, and responses to questions concerning attributes for success. Most students attributed success to internal rather than external…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Choral Music, Class Rank, Classroom Communication
Direct linkJoseph, Cynthia – Australian Journal of Education, 2005
This paper examines the notion of schooling and draws on the experiences of Malaysian teenage schoolgirls in contemporary postcolonial Malaysia. Using a critical approach to understandings of schooling, the author unpacks the links between the macro, micro and the personal in examining these girls' negotiations with discourses of schooling. The…
Descriptors: Females, Teaching Methods, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
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