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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
Richard Lee Monroe – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative causal-comparative study is an empirical examination of the differences in business intelligence capability and the value and competitive advantage of mid-level higher education academia professionals from community colleges, four-year public, and four-year private institutions within the United States.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Professional Personnel, Middle Management, Digital Literacy
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
Download full textAbdulaziz 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)
Barrett J. Taylor; Kelly Rosinger; Karly S. Ford – Sociology of Education, 2024
Admission to selective colleges has grown more competitive, yielding student bodies that are unrepresentative of the U.S. population. Admission officers report using sorting (e.g., GPA, standardized tests) and concertedly cultivated (e.g., extracurricular activities) and ascriptive status (e.g., whether an applicant identifies as a member of a…
Descriptors: College Admission, Selective Admission, Admission Criteria, Competitive Selection
US House of Representatives, 2024
This document records testimony from a hearing held to examine how SCOTUS's decision on race-based admissions is shaping university policies. Member statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Burgess Owens, Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development; and (2) Honorable Robert C. Scott, Ranking Member, Committee on Education and the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), Competitive Selection
Joanne Moore; Anna Mountford-Zimdars – Higher Education Quarterly, 2025
Access to higher education is often competitive, and much attention has been placed on the question of admission decision-making in such high stakes situations. We identify various approaches to distributive justice and consider these under the framework developed by Pike distinguishes between 'egalitaria' (everyone gets the same); 'necessitia'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Educational Background, Enrollment Management
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
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
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2025
The Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship (TELS) program was designed to meet the unique needs of the State of Tennessee, while also incorporating the hallmark elements of existing merit-based aid programs in other states. This manuscript provides a snapshot of TELS recipients and their outcomes, including narrative discussion on the current…
Descriptors: Competitive Selection, State Programs, Outcomes of Education, Scholarships
Chernoff, Egan J. – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2023
Constantly on the lookout for and with a vested interest in Canadian mathematics education matters, because if Canadian mathematics education matters then Canadian mathematics education matters, this article is an investigation into the Canadian lottery landscape. With apologies to the Atlantic Lottery, Loto-Québec and Ontario Lottery and Gaming,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Selective Admission, Competitive Selection
