Enhancing equal opportunities in higher education: A new merit-based admission model

dc.creator	Boaz Shulruf
dc.creator	John Hattie
dc.creator	Rolf Turneraq
dc.creator	Sarah Tumen
dc.creator	Meisong Li
dc.date	2009-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:24:00Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:24:00Z
dc.identifier	1305-9076
dc.identifier	1305-905X
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/89dc5d5160c6406385a2bc77a3d0a437
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/29816
dc.description	This study investigates predictive correlations between the New Zealand National Certificate of Educational Achievement(NCEA) system (the new standard based assessment for secondary schools) with university first year Grade Point Averagesachieved by students in one large New Zealand University. It evaluates alternative models for determining criteria for UniversityEntrance using various attributes of the qualification and ascertains the implications of the best models for different groups ofstudents. The most appropriate alternative model gives greater emphasis to ‘Excellence’ and ‘Merit’ in NCEA results and lessweight to credit accumulation and minimum pass rates. A combination of this alternative model and the current modelprovides a merit-based admissions system which could potentially increase the number of under-represented students (Maoriand Pacific ethnicities and students from schools in lower socio-economic communities) at university, with no associateddecline in the success rate during the first year of university study. The second part of this study considers an application ofthese quality models on three consecutive cohorts. The findings from this provide further support for the robustness of the newmodel. Implications for policy makers are discussed.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Turskish
dc.publisher	World Education, Science, Research and Counseling Center
dc.relation	http://www.world-education-center.org/index.php/cjes/article/view/69/32
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1305-9076
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1305-905X
dc.rights	CC BY-NC
dc.source	Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences , Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 15-32 (2009)
dc.subject	Merit-based admission model
dc.subject	Higher education
dc.subject	Students’ ethnicity
dc.subject	University entrance
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Enhancing equal opportunities in higher education: A new merit-based admission model
dc.type	article