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Download full textTyner, Adam – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2023
The SAT and ACT have held a controversial place in American education for generations. The conventional wisdom has come to suggest that these college entrance tests are harmful to educational equity because they discriminate against students from low-income families and other students whose backgrounds may put them at a disadvantage, such as…
Descriptors: Barriers, Equal Education, Minority Group Students, College Admission
Jack Mountjoy – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of American public university students, to systematically identify and employ decentralized cutoffs in SAT/ACT…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Higher Education, Public Colleges, Universities
Direct linkAstin, Alexander W. – Liberal Education, 2017
The social and economic inequities in America's K-12 education system are well known, what with a rapidly expanding system of expensive private schools and the striking contrasts between urban and suburban public schools. America's higher education system, on the other hand, is generally regarded as far more equitable, given that each of the fifty…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, College Preparation, College Readiness
Peer reviewedPedrini, Bonnie C.; Pedrini, D. T. – College Student Journal, 1977
The study investigated effectiveness of an experimental program for disadvantaged students. It was contrasted to a control program and to the freshman population relating sex, race, financial aid, special instruction, general achievement/aptitude, and attrition/persistence with GPA. Experimental courses elevate GPAs; regular courses do not.…
Descriptors: College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade Point Average, Higher Education
Pedrini, Bonnie C.; Pedrini, D. T.
The purposes of this study were to determine (1) the usefulness of ACT composite scores in assessing and predicting achievement and attrition of disadvantaged and regular freshmen at the University of Nebraska at Omaha during the 1972-73 academic year, and (2) the effectiveness of a special program in keeping low income students in school during…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, College Students
Pedrini, Bonnie C.; Pedrini, D. T.
The univariate and multivariate assessment of general achievement/aptitude for regular and disadvantaged freshmen at the University of Nebraska at Omaha were investigated. Correlational (single and multiple) and variance analyses (Maximum n = 150) and chi square analyses (maximum n = 1,214) assessed American College Test (ACT) Composite scores…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Blacks, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen
