Higher Education Research and Development, 2019 This is the first study that examines the comparative validity of the Chinese National College Entrance Exam (known as Gaokao) to a Western end-of-secondary-school performance measure, Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR), as admission criteria to ...
A. Farley, H. Yang
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Mechanism Design Approach to School Choice: One versus Many [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 A vast majority of the school choice literature focuses on designing mechanisms to simultaneously assign students to many schools, and employs a "make it up as you go along" approach when it comes to each school's admissions policy. An alternative approach is to focus on the admissions policy for one school.
arxiv
Characterizing nonatomic admissions markets [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 This article proposes a characterization of admissions markets that can predict the distribution of students at each school or college under both centralized and decentralized admissions paradigms. The characterization builds on recent research in stable assignment, which models students as a probability distribution over the set of ordinal preferences
arxiv
Strong Admissibility for Abstract Dialectical Frameworks [PDF]
, 2020 Abstract dialectical frameworks (ADFs) have been introduced as a formalism for modeling and evaluating argumentation allowing general logical satisfaction conditions. Different criteria used to settle the acceptance of arguments are called semantics. Semantics of ADFs have so far mainly been defined based on the concept of admissibility.
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Race, Class, Caste…? Rethinking Affirmative Action [PDF]
, 1999 Many who oppose affirmative action programs in the United States because they use racial categories such as black, African American, or Latino, claim that equally effective and more equitable programs can be developed using only class categories, such ...
Cunningham, Clark D. +1 more
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Evaluating and Ranking Criteria for Mathematics Graduate Education Admissions through the Analytic Hierarchy Process [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Graduate school admission committees consider many factors for admission into a mathematics PhD program, and aspiring applicants often wonder which factors are more important. Applicants discerning where to best dedicate their time may ask questions such as, "should I take graduate level courses or participate in research?" This paper seeks to answer ...
arxiv
Stochastic Maximum-Likelihood DOA Estimation and Source Enumeration in the Presence of Nonuniform Noise [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 In this paper, the problem of determining the number of signal sources impinging on an array of sensors and estimating their directions-of-arrival (DOAs) in the presence of spatially white nonuniform noise is considered. It is known that, in the case of nonuniform noise, the stochastic likelihood function cannot be concentrated with respect to the ...
arxiv
Student Demographics with Changing Admission Criteria: Is Nursing Diversity at Risk? [PDF]
, 2006 Schools of nursing are challenged with choosing from an increasing number of applicants and the need to prepare as many successful nurses as possible to meet the nursing shortage.
Keith, Kimlin McDaniel, Yoon, Jung
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Relationship Between Traditional Graduate Admission Criteria and Student Academic/Clinical Outcomes for Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Students [PDF]
Speech-language pathology graduate admission committees frequently try to identify candidates who will succeed academically and clinically in graduate school while ensuring career readiness. This retrospective study focused on graduate admission criteria
Kumke, Jill +2 more
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Evaluation of the Academic Performance of Private Admission Medical Students to the Public and Regional Admission Students at A Sudanese Medical School [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Performance in Sudan School Certificate Examination (SSCE) has been the sole selection criterion for medical students in Sudan, and only high-achievers were selected for medical schools through public admission.
Elmadhoun, WMY, Elsanousi, M
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