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Direct linkAndres A. Osorio-Londoño; Julia C. Naranjo-Valencia; Gregorio Calderón-Hernandez – International Journal of Training and Development, 2025
This study evaluates the mediating role of human capital in the relationship between training and competitive strategy implementation. It provides a novel contribution to strategic human resource management literature by exploring mechanisms linking training with competitive strategies. The Resource-Based View of the firm and Miles and Snow's…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Training, Competitive Selection, Human Resources
Download full textJustin B. Doromal; Erica Greenberg; Breno Braga; Rachel Lamb; Leonardo Restrepo – Urban Institute, 2025
The District of Columbia boasts the greatest access to public prekindergarten for 3- and 4-year-old children in the United States, offering a full-day, school-year universal preschool program. High participation rates indicate that public investments in prekindergarten are supporting working families and helping DC's children thrive. However,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Access to Education, Enrollment, Public Education
Fiona Gogescu – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2025
This paper explores the way in which elite students from Germany and Romania understand the role of talent, effort, and structural factors in shaping educational success and failure. The image of a successful student aligns with the requirements of the selection processes, with Romanian students emphasising effort, and German students projecting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligence, Ability, Social Systems
Florent Girardin; Inès Blal; Renaud Lunardo – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2024
Higher education institutions (HEIs) engage more and more in branding activities to sustain an advantage in an increasingly high competitive environment. In such a pressing managerial context, research on brand management in the specific context of higher education expanded over the past few years. While research indicates that brand authenticity…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Marketing, College Choice, Reputation
Abdulaziz Althewini; Abdulmohsen Alkushi – Higher Education Studies, 2024
This paper explores the relationship between admission criteria and college major selection among 1,595 undergraduate students at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAUHS) in Saudi Arabia. The study examines how the admission criteria--high school GPA, General Aptitude Test (GAT), Scholastic Achievement Admission Test (SAAT),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Admission Criteria, Competitive Selection
Grace E. Thiel; Celeste M. Murtha; Jennifer F. Dennis; Mari Hopper – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Kansas City University offers a Clinical Anatomy Fellowship which enrolls nine medical students during each academic year and provides training in research, teaching, and advanced anatomical topics. The Fellows practice as novice educators, working alongside Anatomy faculty to teach medical students in the Gross Anatomy laboratory. However, little…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Graduate Medical Education, Fellowships, Anatomy
Bibler, Andrew; Billings, Stephen B.; Ross, Stephen – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
School choice lotteries are an important tool for allocating access to high-quality and oversubscribed public schools. While prior evidence suggests that winning a school lottery decreases adult criminality, there is little evidence for how school choice lotteries impact non-lottery students who are left behind at their neighborhood school. We…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Adults, Males, School Choice
Weiland, Christina; Unterman, Rebecca; Dynarski, Susan; Abenavoli, Rachel; Bloom, Howard; Braga, Breno; Faria, Ann-Marie; Greenberg, Erica H.; Jacob, Brian; Arnold Lincove, Jane; Manship, Karen; McCormick, Meghan; Miratrix, Luke; Monarrez, Tomás E.; Morris-Perez, Pamela; Shapiro, Anna; Valant, Jon; Weixler, Lindsay – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next context: (1) available…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Grosz, Michel – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
I estimate the effect of attending an associate's degree in nursing program on nursing licensure. I use student-level academic data for all California community college students, matched to public records on all nursing licenses earned in the state. I produce causal estimates using random variation from admissions lotteries at a large nursing…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Community Colleges, Certification, Associate Degrees
Oluwatosin Benjamin Fakunle; B. Allen Talbert – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2025
With the accelerating pace of the Silent Generation and Baby Boomer retirements from the workforce, agricultural companies need to understand how to recruit and retain the next generation of workers. The generation currently entering the workforce has been labeled Generation Z. The purpose of this study was to explore the career expectations among…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Occupational Aspiration, Organizations (Groups), Young Adults
Lauren Tuckley; Catherine Salgado; Jessica Edens McCrary; Elise Rudt-Moorty – Written Communication, 2024
The letter of recommendation (LOR) is a stylized form of direct sponsorship, a rhetorical appeal that confers favor on a person or object in keeping with the writer's - or sponsor's - character, authority, and expertise. In response to Swales's call to "unveil" the rhetorical features of occluded genres, this research employs a move-step…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Advocacy, Job Applicants, Fellowships
Damani K. White-Lewis; KerryAnn O'Meara; Kiernan Mathews; Nicholas Havey – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
In US higher education, faculty members may receive an outside offer of employment from an external organization, and then receive a corresponding counteroffer from their current institution. Counteroffers are written contracts made to individuals -- either prematurely in anticipation of an outside offer, but most often after an outside offer --…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Faculty, Personnel Selection, Competitive Selection
Jane Arnold Lincove; Jon Valant – Grantee Submission, 2024
Unified enrollment (UE) systems were designed to improve efficiency, equity, and transparency in school choice processes, but research has focused on efficiency gains. This study examines whether moving from decentralized enrollment processes to UE mitigates or exacerbates racial segregation that often occurs in choice systems. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Enrollment, School Demography, Selective Admission, Admission (School)
Jane Arnold Lincove; Jon Valant – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Unified enrollment (UE) systems were designed to improve efficiency, equity, and transparency in school choice processes, but research has focused on efficiency gains. This study examines whether moving from decentralized enrollment processes to UE mitigates or exacerbates racial segregation that often occurs in choice systems. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Enrollment, School Demography, Selective Admission, Admission (School)
Ford, Karly S.; Rosinger, Kelly; Choi, Junghee – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
Policy researchers have difficulty understanding stratification in enrollment in US higher education when race and ethnicity data are plagued by missing values. Students who decline to ethnoracially self-identify become part of a "race unknown" reporting category. In undergraduate enrollment, "race unknown" students are not…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Competitive Selection, Race, Ethnicity
