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Implications of Losing a Need- and Merit-Based Scholarship on the Educational Trajectory: A Curricular Analytics Approach
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Juan Pablo Salazar-Fernandez; Jorge Munoz-Gama; Marcos Sepúlveda – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
Understanding how students with low socioeconomic status finance their tuition over time can help us comprehend the impact of students' decisions on their subsequent curricular progress, graduation, or dropout. This work presents a curricular analytics approach using process mining techniques to study educational funding trajectories as processes.…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Merit Scholarships, Student Needs, Learning Trajectories
Intermediate Educational Transitions, Alignment, and Inequality in U.S. Higher Education
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Christina Ciocca Eller; Katharine Khanna; Greer Mellon – Sociology of Education, 2024
Substantial social stratification research conceptualizes education as a series of standard transitions from one stage to the next, such as from high school to college. Yet less research examines mandatory transitions within each educational stage, which we call "intermediate educational transitions." In this article, we examine a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Stratification, College Students, Majors (Students)
An Examination of the Curriculum-Levelling Construct
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Smaill, Esther; Darr, Charles – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2020
In February 2020, the Ministry of Education asked the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) to examine the curriculum-levelling construct that sits at the heart of "The New Zealand Curriculum" (Ministry of Education, 2007) (NZC). A key goal of the research was to investigate, whether-- and if so, how--the construct helps…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Alignment (Education), Foreign Countries, National Curriculum
An Examination of the Curriculum-Levelling Construct. Summary Report
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Smaill, Esther; Darr, Charles – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2020
In February 2020, the Ministry of Education asked the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) to examine the curriculum-levelling construct that sits at the heart of The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007). A key goal of the research was to investigate, whether-- and if so, how--the construct helps (or hinders)…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Program Development