Sixteen students, aged eleven to fifteen, from Colorado Academy, near Denver, spent 18 days in China in March, 1977, devoting much of their time to a study of education there. The purpose of the expedition was to compare and contrast educational experiences and circumstances during the intermediate years of education. (Editor/RK)

Offers a selection process through which a school district will have a better chance of selecting an architect who can best assist their specific building program. (Author/MLF)

Describes a procedure developed at the Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, Texas, for selecting and evaluating personnel called AKS ME (Ability, Skill and Knowledge Merit Evaluation), consisting of four basic steps: job analysis, examination plan, candidate evaluation, and validation. (MF)

Results of a nationwide survey of students showed that, when the students had access to information from medical professionals (faculty members, deans, house physicians) regarding residency selection, they felt they had greater access than did students who made greater use of other sources (official directories, classmates, and the…

Differential grading standards were examined in a sample of 1,029 Dartmouth College graduates. Fields of study that attracted students (as majors) who scored higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) employed stricter grading standards. These differential standards attenuated the substantial correlation between SAT scores and grades.…

Higher education institutions in Australia are cautioned against placing too much emphasis in admissions on previous academic performance, whose predictive validity is questioned, and too little emphasis on other important factors relating to equity in the selection process and to educational supply and demand. (MSE)

The results of this study indicate that for accepted students, grade point average (GPA) adjusted by institutional selectivity was considerably more useful than raw GPA, and perhaps as useful for predicting success as Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) science subscores. (LBH)

Texas, California, and Florida are implementing versions of a percent plan in college admissions. This report assesses these plans using data from published information on the plans; state- and institution-calculated higher education application, admission, and enrollment data; media accounts of social and political contexts surrounding the plans;…

Two research studies reported in the three publications discussed in this article had their origins in discussions of the Robbins Committee prior to 1963. Two of the Committee's recommendations related to possible changes in the selection of students for higher education. (Author/RK)

This paper reports on a project designed to examine how typical students of business and engineering went about choosing and being chosen by the organization for which they were going to work. (Author)

The power of consensus opinion among professors is the greatest threat to academic freedom in higher education. All public aid to higher education for teaching should be given directly to students and the process of disbursing research funds should be decentralized and made as competitive as possible. (Author/DN)

Describes a Governor's Honors Program designed to provide students of high ability challenging and enriching educational opportunities. (Author/RK)

Taken from a paper delivered at the Durham meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in September 1970 proposing a new selection procedure, training program, employment, and research projects for university graduate science students. (IR)

The pursuit of excellence is inappropriate in basic physical education programs, where students should learn to understand and enjoy physical fitness activities. However, programs preparing physical education personnel should pursue excellence. (PP)