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Download full textSandra E. Black; Jeffrey T. Denning; Jesse Rothstein – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Selective college admissions are fundamentally a question of tradeoffs: Given capacity, admitting one student means rejecting another. Research to date has generally estimated average effects of college selectivity, and has been unable to distinguish between the effects on students gaining access and on those losing access under alternative…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Selection Criteria, Admission Criteria, College Admission
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Direct linkLeMaistre, Tiffany; Shi, Qingmin; Thanki, Sandip – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2018
This study investigated the relationship between use of online library resources and student success at a small, teaching-focused, baccalaureate college. Researchers also measured whether library users were representative of the student population. Use of online library resources was a significant predictor of semester grade point average (GPA),…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Library Services, Users (Information), Electronic Libraries
Lange, Tyana – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Institutions of higher education (IHEs) are competing to recruit students in a crowded market with the number of colleges on the increase and the number of high school seniors declining. IHEs are looking for effective ways to recruit students and increase retention and graduation rates. Relationship marketing (RM) is an approach from business that…
Descriptors: Role, Marketing, Higher Education, Student Recruitment
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
Educators act as advocates every day, and an advocate's greatest tool is credible information. The College Board and the Alliance for Excellent Education are pleased to announce a series of jointly produced fact sheets intended to arm educators and others with information they can use in advocating for their students, professions, and…
Descriptors: Teachers, Enrollment, Public Schools, School Size
Alon, Sigal; Tienda, Marta – American Sociological Review, 2007
This article uses four data sets to assess changes in the relative weights of test- and performance-based merit criteria on college enrollment during the 1980s and 1990s and considers their significance for affirmative action. Our results support the "shifting meritocracy" hypothesis, revealed by selective postsecondary institutions'…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Diversity (Institutional), Affirmative Action, Weighted Scores
Marchant, Gregory J.; Paulson, Sharon E. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005
The current study examined the effect of high school graduation exams on states' graduation rates, states' aggregated SAT scores, and individual students' SAT scores. Three data sources were used: One source identified states requiring a standardized test for graduation; the NCES provided state aggregated data on graduation rates for the class of…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Grade Point Average, Graduation Rate, Standardized Tests
Camara, Wayne J.; Schmidt, Amy Elizabeth – College Entrance Examination Board, 1999
Group differences among ethnic and racial groups on a series of educational measures and outcomes are examined. African-American and Hispanic students perform substantially lower than white and Asian students on the SAT I. These substantial differences also exist on a variety of other admissions tests used for undergraduate, graduate, and…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Social Stratification, Differences, Scores
