Higher education admission practices : an international perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Other Authors: Oliveri, María Elena, 1974 (Editor), Wendler, Cathy (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:Educational and psychological testing in a global context.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • An overview of higher education admissions processes / Rochelle Michel and Simone Pollard
  • Comparing college aspirations across PISA countries : are 17 percent oranges less than 75 percent apples? / Matthias von Davier and Hak Ping Tam
  • Merit-based admissions in higher education / Christina Wikström and Magnus Wikström
  • The open admissions model : an example from the United States / Kevin M. Williams and Cathy Wendler
  • Character-based admissions criteria in the United States and in Europe : rationale, evidence, and some critical remarks / A. Susan M. Niessen and Rob R. Meijer
  • Cross-cultural and global competencies and their role in admissions policies and practices / Stephanie McKeown, Adrienne Vedan, Jackson Traplin, Leah Sanford, and Cynthia Bourne
  • Admissions policies and practices and the reshaping of access patterns to higher education in Africa / Ibrahim Oanda
  • Chile's admissions tests : pending changes and revisions / Mladen Koljatic and Mónica Silva
  • Issues of perceived fairness in admissions assessments in small countries : the case of the Republic of Cyprus / Elena C. Papanastasiou and Michalis P. Michaelides
  • Higher education admissions practices in Israel / Avi Allalouf, Yoav Cohen, and Naomi Gafni
  • Access, equity, and admissions in South African higher education / Naziema Jappie
  • Admissions practices in Sweden / Per-Erik Lyrén and Christina Wikström
  • Revisions of admissions testing in Vietnam : from elite to mass higher education / Duy Ngoc Pham and Hong Cong Sai
  • General academic and subject-based examinations used in undergraduate higher education admissions / Rosemary Reshetar and Martha F. Pitts
  • Language proficiency assessments in higher education admissions / Thomas Eckes and Hans-Joachim Althaus
  • Measuring student character : modernizing predictors of academic success / Nathan Kuncel, Khue Tran, and Shu Han (Charlene) Zhang
  • The ACT Holistic Framework® of education and workplace success / Jeremy Burrus, Jason Way, Becky Bobek, Kristin Stoeffler, and Ryan O'Connor
  • Using mathematical models to improve access to postsecondary education / Rebecca Zwick
  • After admissions : what comes next in higher education? / María Elena Oliveri, Robert J. Mislevy, and Norbert Elliot.