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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"admission policy"”.
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MEDICAL SCHOOL ADMISSION POLICY ANALYSIS: SUCCESS IN INCREASING AFRICAN AMERICANS IN MATRICULANT CLASSES
… these strategies into their medical school admissions policies and how effective these policies are in increasing diversity in medical school classes. The implication encourage admissions committees to modify the importance of certain selection criteria in an ongoing effort to increase …
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Trends in admission policy criteria for CACREP approved masters and doctoral counselor education programs.
… counselor educator, or researcher. Choosing admission criteria to assess this level of potential in an applicant is quite a task. Those counselor education programs that are accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) have the benefit of …
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Everyone, no-one, someone and the Native Hawaiian learner: How expanded equality narratives might account for guarantee/reality gaps, historico-legal context and an admission policy which is actually levelling the playing field
… because it prefers those children in admissions. In search of answers, this thesis critically analyzes the narratives of equality evident in the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s reasoning in Doe v Kamehameha Schools, arguing that the dissent, majority and concurrence …
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Competencies needed by teachers of developmental English in two-year colleges
… system operates primarily under an open-door admission policy which admits many students who are academically deficient in their writing skills. To meet the needs of these students, many colleges have designed and implemented developmental English courses which, unfortunately, have not always …
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From policy to practice : aspects of the South African schools' act
… and the age restriction in respect of the admission policy. On the basis of views from respondents, the study concludes that these aspects of the SASA which are difficult to implement on the ground have an adverse effect on the culture of teaching and learning in the schools.
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Status of Admission Policies and Practices at Four-Year Public Institutions of Higher Education in Virginia Implemented to Evaluate Home School Applicants
… of this study was to determine how current admission policies and practices at four-year public institutions of higher education in Virginia are implemented to evaluate home school applicants. University administrators, admission officials, and other interested individuals may gain insight …
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A Comparative Study of High School Academic Paths, Grade Point Averages, and ACT Composite Scores as Predictors of Success at Walters State Community College.
… high school, the competitive nature of college admissions continues to grow. Colleges and universities are attempting to find the appropriate means to adequately predict collegiate success. Common methods of this prediction have come from a variety of sources most of which are the use of high …
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An Evaluation of the Implementation of the English Language Nigeria Certificate in Education Curriculum: A Case Study of Three Colleges of Education
… research emphasized an immediate review of the admission policy and an extensive involvement of the lecturers in the future reform of the curriculum. Future research is concerned with an investigation of the measures that will curb systemic failures in the colleges.
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Understanding Satisfactory Academic Progress And Persistence: A Case Study
… colleges that includes adhering to an open-door admission policy often collides with SAP regulations.</p> <p>The purpose of this qualitative instrumental case study was to determine how SAP regulations affected persistence for financial aid recipients at a community college after receiving a …
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Participative management and the implementation of selected education policy documents in KwaZulu Natal schools
… education systems in South Africa. The various policy documents such as the South African Schools Act (1996), the Labour Relations Act (1995) and the Bill of Rights (1996) that mandate transformation in education systems, aroused interest in the workability and success of implementing these …
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Empirical Essays on the Economics of Education.
… education. Chapter 2 explores a secondary school admission policy reform and employs repeat sales data to examine the relationship between house prices and school quality. I use the reform to generate exogenous variation in school quality, and repeat sales data to eliminate time-invariant …
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Exploring inequalities in English language education in China: A comparative case study of English-major students from a sociological perspective
… special cases in my study suggest a more equal admission policy and the critical role that institutions play in compensating for a family’s lack of capital. This thesis concludes with suggestions for more inclusive practices for institutions and policy makers in China to achieve a more equal …
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Modelling the impact of schools and neighbourhoods on the pupil progress and value-added from KS2 to KS4 A cluster analysis of secondary schools in England
… years. Despite potential impacts of major policy changes, such as the Wolf review of vocational education in 2014, the size of school clusters remains similar over time. And the majority of schools stay in the same cluster, whilst some moved to adjacent performance clusters. In the …
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Critical Care at the University Teaching Hospital,Zambia: Mortality and Quality of Life Outcomes: Cross Sectional Study
… in the most effective manner and plan its admission, treatment and discharge protocols accordingly in the future. Outcome from critical care is related to patient selection. Criteria for admission for maximum utility and most beneficial outcomes include severity of admission illness (i.e. …
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Engineering Students at Typically Invisible Transition Points: A Focus on Admissions and the Sophomore Year
… Little attention has been paid to the university admissions process, one of the gateways to engineering studies. Little attention also has been paid to the experiences of college sophomores, whose attrition rates approach those of first-year college students.</p> <p>The first section of this …
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Exploring the perceptions of teachers and parents on the use of play-based pedagogy in early childhood education. A case study of preschools in Kenya.
… parents’ perceptions, curriculum and policy. The framework shows the linkage between curriculum and policy, teacher perceptions and parental perceptions in the implementation of play and play-based learning in preschool classrooms. Guided by this framework, this study adopted a …
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Stakeholder experiences of enabling children’s rights to basic education through public primary school admission policies
A number of legal and policy frameworks with implications for public schools regarding their management and implementation of admission policies exist. Professional school management represented by the principal, school governance represented by the school governing body (SGB) and the head of the …