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Young, Nicholas T.; Caballero, Marcos D. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
One argument for keeping the physics Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is that it can help applicants who might otherwise be missed in the admissions process stand out. In this work, we evaluate whether this claim is supported by physics graduate school admissions decisions. We used admissions data from five Ph.D.-granting physics departments over a…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, College Applicants, Selective Admission
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Shields, Robin; Masardo, Alexander – Educational Review, 2018
This paper investigates differences in higher education outcomes according to the qualifications with which students enter university. The study is situated in the context of increasing marketization, competition and privatization in post-16 qualifications, combined with an increase in students entering higher education with either vocational…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Employment Qualifications, Higher Education, Marketing
Ingersoll, Richard M.; Merrill, Lisa; May, Henry – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2014
This study addresses the question: Do the kinds and amounts of pre-service education and preparation that beginning teachers receive before they start teaching have any impact on whether they leave teaching? We examine a wide range of measures of teachers' subject-matter education and pedagogical preparation. We also compare different fields of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover
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Mays, David C. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2010
This article describes a one-week introduction to stochastic groundwater modeling, intended for the end of a first course on groundwater hydrology, or the beginning of a second course on stochastic hydrogeology or groundwater modeling. The motivation for this work is to strengthen groundwater education, which has been identified among the factors…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Water, Probability, College Science