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Shutao Wang; Lujing Tang; Junwei Bao – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
Against the backdrop of global transformations in university admission systems, the quest for an enrolment paradigm that efficiently identifies and selects high-quality students has gained paramount significance. With the help of propensity score matching (PSM), this study controlled students' backgrounds and compared the performance of students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Admission, College Applicants
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Onyia, Okey Peter; Allen, Stephanie – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2012
This paper contains results of an empirical study that tested the efficacy and acceptability of two templates designed to fully involve students in proper and fair peer-assessments of their group project work (GPW) by providing concrete evidence of independent progressive documentation of their peers' contributions to the work-process and…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Undergraduate Students, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Kirkup, Catherine; Schagen, Ian; Wheater, Rebecca; Morrison, Jo; Whetton, Chris – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2007
In September 2005 the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) in association with the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the Sutton Trust and the College Board, began a five-year research study to examine the validity of an aptitude test in higher education admissions. This report describes and explores the relationships…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Academic Achievement, Student Surveys, Aptitude Tests
Barter, Alice K.; And Others – 1980
A follow-up study of two instruments for evaluating college writing was conducted. The experimental scale (E Scale) was developed in 1976 and revised for this study. The control scale (C Scale) was described in the literature in 1977. Ten English majors graded ten essays from diagnostic entrance exams. Both the E Scale and the C Scale were used,…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Testing, Essay Tests, Evaluation Criteria