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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
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Oliveri, Maria Elena; Lawless, Rene; Robin, Frederic; Bridgeman, Brent – Applied Measurement in Education, 2018
We analyzed a pool of items from an admissions test for differential item functioning (DIF) for groups based on age, socioeconomic status, citizenship, or English language status using Mantel-Haenszel and item response theory. DIF items were systematically examined to identify its possible sources by item type, content, and wording. DIF was…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Comparative Analysis, Item Banks, Item Response Theory
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O'Connell, Ann Aileen – Educational Research and Evaluation (An International Journal on Theory and Practice), 1999
Investigated relationships among different types of errors occurring during probability problem solving by 50 graduate students without mathematical sophistication. Categorized errors as text comprehension, conceptual, procedural, and arithmetic/computation errors. Discusses implications for the teaching and learning of probability problem…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education
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Hachigan, Jack – American Mathematical Monthly, 1978
This description of a graduate applied mathematics program developed at Hunter College is for students with a liberal-arts background and is suitable to the economic and geographical location of New York City. The components of the program and its success are reported. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Course Descriptions, Graduate Study, Higher Education
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Cook, Marlene M.; Swanson, Austin – Research in Higher Education, 1978
Focus is on two areas: (1) the factors available to the selection committee when students apply for admission into graduate programs, and (2) those factors emerging after admission, resulting from students' meeting program-imposed requirements for graduation. Program variables are shown to be more important than admission variables. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Doctoral Programs, Factor Analysis, Graduate Students
Manus, Lee Aura; Zipser, Dean – 1977
An interdisciplinary course in problem solving, entitled "patterns of problem solving," and its unique peer program offered at the University of California, Los Angeles, are described. The emphasis in the subject matter and approach is to expose the student to the wide range of alternative problem solving techniques and to enable the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Course Descriptions